Honeystone Candles: Summer Schedule

This Saturday we celebrate the final Indoor Market of the season.  Please see below for our summer schedule.
Honeystone does not participate in the Corvallis farmers markets, but you can find us at several local events over the next few months.

And you can always contact us at candles@honeystonecandles.com

To thank our loyal customers,
this week we are offering
a free candle with every $5 purchase:  

Choose from Monkey's Fist Knot, strawberry, walnut or votive.  We are honored to bring sweetness and light into your homes with our pure beeswax, original design candles.

Monkey's Fist Know, Walnut, Strawberry, and Votive Beeswax Candles

Honeystone would also like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance and technical wizardry of Maureen, The Mandala Lady, who has edited and coordinated this blog through the Market season.  See Maureen's beautiful artwork on the south wall, near Gathering Together Farms.

Honeystone Candles - 2013 Summer Schedule

• Saturdays, May-August (unless it is raining):  Eugene Saturday Market, 10-5 pm
• May 4:  OSU Moms' Weekend Art Fair, OSU campus, 10-5 pm
• May 5:  Madison Avenue Garden Fair, Corvallis Art Center Plaza, 9-4pm
• May 18:  East Lincoln Quick Response Team Fair, R&R Cafe, Hwy 20 Milepost 33, 9-3pm
• First Sunday of July, August, September and October:  Kings Valley Market, 1 mile north of Hwy 20 on Hwy 223
• July 13:  Dancing Oaks Garden Festival, Priem Rd, Monmouth
• September 14-15:  Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire, Kings Valley, 10-6 each day
• September 28-29:  First Christian Church Fair, 6th & Madison, Corvallis, alongside the Fall Festival, 10-6pm

The Mandala Lady Market Painting - Almost Done

From The Mandala Lady:
Every Saturday while at the market, starting on January 19, I've been continuously painting this version of the "Autumn Bliss" mandala. You can view one of the earlier images of it in this blog post.

This Saturday I hope to complete it as it is almost done. It just needs some more fine-tuning and a little bit of background color around the outside of the mandala.

If you're curious to see the first version of the Autumn Bliss mandala, visit The Beanery on Circle Blvd in Corvallis anytime in April, you'll see it on display on the side back wall.

Happy Coloring!

joyfully, Maureen
The Mandala Lady

FAQ #5: The Mandala Lady

Customer: How do you do the shading?

 

The Mandala Lady

When coloring, I strive to make my mandalas or the components within the mandalas three dimensional.

Two things to know about shading:

1. where's is the light coming from
2. use purple

When I know from which direction the light is hitting an object, I then know to go to the direct opposite side of the object to place my shading and shadow.

Years ago an instructor suggested we layer a color's complementary color to create the shading. I have since made it a bit simpler. I found that using purple works great for all colors except when purple is the color of the object. In that case I use yellow...yes, you read that right. Yellow is purple's complement. When you put yellow on purple and then layer purple on top of that, the 'yellow' turns into a darker purple. Cool, huh?

Example:

1. In the first circle, I put down some green
2. In the second circle, I determined that the light is coming from the upper right, so my shading will go on the lower left of the circle. I layered some purple in a crescent moon shape to coincide with the shape of the circle.
3. In the third circle, I used the same color green from the first circle and layered it over the purple area. Notice how the purple morphs into a dark green

Shading Examples: add purple, then add the base color of the shading

Your assignment:

As you go about your day, pay attention to objects you see around you, shadows they create, the shadows on the object, and most importantly the direction of the light source in relationship the object and the shadow/shading it creates.

Happy Coloring!

joyfully, Maureen
The Mandala Lady

FAQ #3: The Mandala Lady

Customer: What color pencils do you use?

The Mandala Lady:
Most people ask this question because they want to know what ones to use to be able to get the bright colors that they see in my colorings.

I use what's called an "artist quality" brand pencil: namely Prismacolor. Several brands of artist quality pencils exist that are equally as good (or maybe even better) such as Faber Castel, Derwent, Lyra, Staedler, etc. For me, I find the Prismacolor pencils blend the best for the style of coloring I do...burnishing.

With quality pencils, the price goes up dramatically from your typical brand of color pencil that you see in most stores...which tend to be chalky, a lot less vibrant, and lack any real blending capability. On average a 12 set of Prismacolor sells between $10-18...while a 12 set of the typical brand sells between $2-3.

For a really good in-between brand, that gives you good color and better blending, I recommend Prang color pencils...which you can usually buy between $4-6. Locally in Corvallis I've seen them at Bi-Mart, Creative Craft and Frame (Kings & Buchanan) and sometimes at the office supply stores.

Another option would be to go to an art supply store where they sell Prismacolor pencils (Creative Craft and Frame carries them). Chances are they sell them as individual pencils ($1.50-$2 a piece) as well as in sets. Buy just a couple of individual colors just so you can try them out and to experience the difference between the $2 set of pencils, the $5 set of pencils, and the artist quality pencils.

Prismacolor Pencil Set

Prang Pencil Set

Find the pencils that work best for you and that inspire you to want to do lots more coloring! :-)

Joyfully, Maureen
The Mandala Lady

The Mandala Lady Clearance Sale

From The Mandala Lady (Booth 8):

I'm clearing out my stock of hand-crafted Mandala Art "hangers".

I designed these 5" x 5" reproductions of my mandala art for people who want a small piece of meditative art near their computer or work desk. They can easily be hung anywhere.

The message that goes with the mandala is on the back and the whole hanger is laminated with a cord hanger.

I originally sold them for $7.

From now until the end of the 2013 market season,
they are marked down to $2!

Hanger: "Essence of Being" Mandala

Back Side

FAQ #2: The Mandala Lady

Customer: Do you use a computer program to create your designs?

The Mandala Lady:

Each mandala is hand-drawn using paper and pencil. For the Symmetry and Hyperbolic Tessellation mandalas, I made a graph to put under my paper which allows me to free-hand draw while maintaining symmetry, giving it a more organic look and feel. I scan the drawing into my computer and then trace/draw it into Illustrator. Once drawn into Illustrator, I can then reproduce it as individual prints to color, make it into a greeting card, or put it into a coloring book.

When I’m ready to color or paint it, I print it onto artist quality paper.

Pencil sketch of the "Echo" mandala over hyperbolic tessellation graph

FAQ: The Mandala Lady

Here's a FAQ from a customer to The Mandala Lady...


Customer:  Do you create your own designs?



Of all the questions I'm asked, this is the one I'm asked the most. The answer is: Yes, I do.


Most of my design ideas come from patterns I see in nature, architecture, geometry, and from my dreams. I keep a sketch book by my bed so that when I wake up from a dream with a mandala design in it, I can quickly sketch it out so I'll remember it.

Here's a design that came as a simple idea (circled in green) in a dream I had recently. The pink circled area shows where I expanded and developed it further.

Maureen Frank
The Mandala Lady
Booth #8

The Mandala Lady Market Painting

With all the great produce, flowers, food, and artisan products being great reasons for coming to the market each week...The Mandala Lady gives you yet another. Come watch her make progress on a watercolor painting that she works on only during the market. This is after 3 Saturdays of painting.