Hi everyone. How are all of you? Yesterday was Sunday (or today, depending on where you live) so you know what that means: #sublimesunday, created by @c0ff33a

Mine was good. Nothing special, but enjoyed time with the family. And had time to draw this, which is what I want to talk about it today's post.

Do you know the sri yantra? This thing:

A week or so ago, I came across this post from @lukestokes. In it he briefly mentions some thoughts on Sacred Geometry and shows off his attempts to draw a sri yantra. It's a good post, you should go read it. I'll be here when you get back.

I was immediately attracted to it. Not in a spiritual sense, but in an artistic sense. I've always liked mandalas and I enjoyed the patterns of the sri yantra.

Here is my second attempt. I'd show you my first, but it was pretty bad. The second one came out pretty well, though.

As you can see, my paper wasn't quite large enough to draw the surrounding gates and my first layer of petals is a little too thin (in fairness, this is what the tutorial recommended; for my third attempt I will make it wider) but overall not bad. I'm not really much of a colorer, so I may give it to my son to fill in with whatever colors he chooses.

If you want to try, the tutorial I followed is here. It's a bit different from the tutorial Luke links to in his post. I tried the one he linked to but I couldn't follow it. The one I link to is fairly simple, but it does require patience.

I'm going to try for a third attempt the next time I have a free hour. I'll see if I can't find a sheet of larger paper, maybe A3 if I can manage to find one around the house. I may also try to find another pen to ink it with. I used my broad nib fountain pen, which worked well, but a more oil based ink might be better.

Sacred Geometry

So does the sri yantra have some kind of special mystical power? I don't know, maybe. I'm fairly open minded about all this manner of thing, and don't really leap to either side.

What do you guys think? Any thoughts?

Anyway, hope you all are having or had a great Sunday!

❦

	David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku.