Color grading games we all played when we were young, a line drawing outline of the pattern or sticker, with a brush to choose their favorite color to fill a small square grid, this exclusive to children's games, you can exercise hands-on ability, aesthetic ability and sense of art, deeply liked by parents.
A few years ago, there was a color-filling game book called "The Secret Garden", which was once all the rage, this book is not a child's toy, but a special decompression game for adults to use, Xiao Dai tried to fill in several pictures, but did not finally complete, the reason is too energy-consuming. The color that needs to be filled in in this book is very complicated, and the space for small color blocks is very small, and if you are not careful, you will fill in the wrong one. Many people have given bad reviews of this color-filling game book, the reason is also because it is too difficult, and even, many friends say that where is a decompression book, there is no pressure, filling in this book pressure is getting bigger and bigger.
The artist I want to introduce to you today is very similar to the color filling game, if the color filling game of "The Secret Garden" is ordinary difficulty, then the artist's color filling painting belongs to the "hell difficulty".
The artist, from England, called Asmahan Mosley, works like a cross-stitch or a carpet, but any work that is so complex that it becomes art. If expressed in more technical terms, this type of painting should be called "mandala".
Mandala is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word Mandala, which originally means gathering and altar field, mostly round and square, paying attention to symmetry to show that the pattern is very gorgeous, and the mandala diagram also symbolizes the "cosmic map of the heart".
Artist Asmahan Mosley took a lot of time to paint these intricate patterns, a simple painting often takes about 10 hours, and complex works require 100 hours of patient application to complete.
These paintings with complex patterns are different from the coloring games we play, the color filling game only requires us to choose the color to paint, but asmahan Mosley's work is much more complex, at the beginning of the creation she will first use a pencil to outline the pattern, and then use ink to outline the black edges, and then need to be filled, the painter will generally use watercolor and acrylic to apply, before the painting is completed, it is also necessary to use gold and silver acrylic paint to carry out the final color.
The final intricate pattern is enough to amaze everyone, this is a painting that can be completed with great patience and perseverance, so let's enjoy it.