“Mandala No. 239,” digital art, 2016.
As a test of the traditional to digital workflow, I designed the Photoshop shape layers over the scanned drawing from my mandala diary. Working on this design kicked me into the flow, I’ve lost the track of time.
“The Secret,” watercolors on paper, 2016.
“Enlightenment VIII,” watercolors on paper, 2015.
“Enlightenment IV” represents a close-up of the Buddha at the moment of his enlightenment.
“Study for Enlightenment VIII,” digital painting, 2015.
“Mandala No. 15,” watercolors on paper, 2015.
In this painting the square becomes more prominent, more present, but it’s still unstable, still shimmering, still becoming.
The squaring of the circle is as much a reference to the mandala design as it is to the alchemy. I was introduced to both mandala and alchemy images through the books of Carl Gustav Jung.
The art blog of Vjeran Miljenović
— visual artist working in traditional and digital media.