The 2024 Ventura Community Mandala, the first MMM Mandala in Ventura, 40-ft Diameter in downtown Ventura, in front of the San Buenaventura mission.
It was painted on September 19 & 20, 2024 with the Ojai Dy Mandala Crew, Ventura residents and visitors and Holy Cross School students. The City Of Ventura allowed it to live for one month and it was washed off October 21, allowed to last for one month.
The working sketch, leaving areas for open for pictorial artists.
Laying out the pattern. For this mandala we had 2 pages of layout instructions (this was a fairly easy layout) and we made cardboard templates and pre-measured strings for quick marking.That's River in the green on the left and on the right in pink, Evergreen, my creative partner. She's using a cardboard ruler to mark straight lines.
Hannah painting the central small rose.
Holy Cross School students painting the border. Their school is in the building behind the mandala.
Filling in the border with white paint.
First pictorial "underwater" section being painted by Oceanna and Jen.
Edmund chalking the honeycomb pattern with templates.
Don painting the the first part of the honeycomb
Filling in the honeycomb
Elias and Ramona chalking more honeycomb pattern
Ze'Lee painting a beach scene in one of the Earth sections.
Ladybug Earth section.
Painting surfboards
More border painting
Ramona and her Earth section represented by a peacock feather.
Almost done, the view is up Main Street, towards California Street
The center, the Compass Rose, a nautical compass with an actual rose, symbol of Love and Compassion (and much more)
The year in the border with surfer silhouette and surfboards.
The surfer on the opposite side of the Mandala with the mission in the background.
View of the mandala with two underwater sections and border.
Oceanna finishing the last underwater section, painting a mermaid.
Rock on Michelle!
Michelle, president of the Buenaventura Art Association, one of our sponsors, celebrating as she is painting the surfer silhouette.
End of the day after packing up, Mandala completed.
Oriented to True North
see MMM link.
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