Let's continue with the mandala book! 🤗

Happy day, afternoon or evening 🤗! Today I bring you a new post for this beautiful Hive Arte community, in which I continue to share my process with the mandala book. This new flower design, in which the petals stand out more, I thought it was great to color it with a five color pattern: red, fuchsia, orange, yellow and black. The color that looks like a magenta, is actually the fuchsia I'm talking about, again, the camera of my phone played me dirty 🤣, but this time it is more faithful to reality than with the previous mandala.

Between last week and this week, I have been reflecting on a phrase I heard someone say to someone I was talking to on the street: “I just need to bloom more”. I kept thinking about it because I hadn't heard someone use that word in that context in years.

But what does it mean? We could use that word in many different ways: flourish spiritually, flourish as a person, flourish abundantly, flourish emotionally, flourish professionally... or, simply, flourish in all aspects of our lives.

I will never know in which specific area this individual who passed me by wanted to develop/flower the most 😂, what is certain is that he is absolutely right, those who don't “bloom” slowly wither away. We all have our moments of momentum and the times for everyone are different, we don't all grow in the same areas at the same time.

But do we really reach our full personal potential at some point? And if so, how would we know, how could we be sure? For me, that blossoming comes with the fulfillment of finding our life purpose, as corny as that sounds. That could be a sign or maybe not.

Also, it depends on what it means for each human being to be fulfilled as a person. From my point of view it is everything I named above, however, when asking someone from a previous era, their answer might be: “study, work, get married and have children”. And it wouldn't be wrong either, it's inevitable that society influences our way of looking at life, that was expected in yesteryear (And whoever stepped out of that system was frowned upon or victim of gossip 🤣).

My point is that today's mandala reminded me even more of that conversation in the street, the petals are opening and getting bigger as the flower opens, blooming in a pattern of colors that give it life and magnetism, two things that represent excellently well the human being who has blossomed and is in full bloom.

I hope you like design number 6, I send you a hug. Thanks for your support always 🙌.

Below, I show you the process of how I paint it little by little until I achieve a stunning color pattern 💥.

The first mandala I made from the book can be found at this link ✅