Jame Harlo

Elephant Mandalas

Elephant Mandalas cover

Ears are the whole opportunity here — enormous flat areas that the designs fill with the most intricate work in the book.

Designs
50
Difficulty
mixed
Printing
One side only
Size
8.5 × 11 in

Six pages from inside

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What is in it

Roughly half the pages are head-on, where the two ears become a matched pair of panels to fill. The others are side profiles with the trunk curling into ornament, and four pages of mother-and-calf that are the gentlest in the book.

How it colours

The ear panels are big enough to try something ambitious on and forgiving enough that it will not be ruined if it goes wrong. Good for anyone who likes a page with one large decision on it.

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