My daughter and I are raising a monarch caterpillar into a butterfly. I took a picture of it today to keep track for our log. I love to make mandalas, and have not done so in a while, so I thought this the perfect media for today.
When you make a digital mandala from a photograph, you choose which part of the photograph will make the kaleidoscope image of your mandala. You can choose to zoom in so much so that no one can tell what you created the image from, or you can zoom out and include much of the picture, so that it is easy to tell what the image is of.
I enjoy doing both, and today I want to make a design with the leaf and the body of the caterpillar and still show that it was a caterpillar.
I did not know there were little yellow aphids all over the milkweed until I took the photo and uploaded it. I decided to leave them in the mandala as well. Some might see them as nasty little bugs, but look at the mandala; there is so much beauty in life that we choose not too see…
There’s so many things hidden too…
Look for the hidden caterpillar heads that are created from the image itself; there are eight large ones (*hint look at the diamond and the square)
click the image for a larger view, then do it again for an even larger view!
Here’s the photo I took:
