Geometric Mandala

Every mandala in this family is constructed, not sketched. A centre point, a set of concentric circles, and a division of the circle into equal parts — six, eight, twelve, sixteen — and every petal, every arc and every border is placed on one of those divisions. That is what makes the symmetry feel settled rather than mechanical: the lines land where the construction says they land. We draw them at four ring depths so they work at different sizes. The two-ring versions hold up printed small on a phone case; the five-ring versions are made for a 50 cm print where you can follow a single petal all the way round. The ones in our colouring books are drawn with deliberately open fields, because a mandala with no room in it is a chore to colour.