Lesson#39 March Art Day

The March Art Day was a fun time, wish I had a pic of Evie's final project, but I don't. Evie's friend Morgan was visiting from Philly, making it a special art day. Morgan is a homeschooled friend who had moved last year and is very into art. For this month we studied Mandalas, the art of making them, and some of their symbolisms. We discussed how civilizations from around the world have used the circle or geometric shapes of Mandalas for thousands of years. The monks of Tibet use the Mandala as a meditation, and their mandala usually represents the interior of the temple, it is made of sand, therefore impermanent, true to their Buddhist nature. The Star of David was also originally drawn as a mandala. The use of the Mandala for healing is used from art therapy to regular psychology. The art form can be very geometric or free formed. Below are some pics of our Mandala Art Day, the real underlining principal here is more about how to use art in your everyday life, that for thousands of years there was no separation of art and life, it was one.