This week, Melody Cummons of Million Mandalas for Peace, answers my questions. Be sure to visit her blog, where she displays some very unique and beautiful work of her own, combined with lots of different artists’ contributions. She’s also a wonderful person to get to know.

How did Mandalas become a part of your life?

I started experimenting making mandalas around 2004. I’m a graphic artist in the fashion industry and work primarily in Illustrator, but wanted to learn more about Photoshop, so I started experimenting with Photoshop using …

Melody Cummons has a blog called A Million Mandalas for Peace.

This Blog is dedicated to creating and bringing together a million mandalas for peace and to all art created from the heart and spirit, from a place of stillness. “Mandala” is an ancient sanskrit word which means “circle”. It is a symbol that is found in every culture, religion and everywhere in nature. It is a symbol which means Oneness, Wholeness, Completion, Unity and Peace. …

There’s a wave pulsing through the blogs of entrepreneurs called “7 Things You Don’t Know About Me.” My friend, Susan Reid at Discovering Your Inner Samurai, tagged me and six other bloggers to reveal our hidden secrets. In turn, we keep it alive by bringing in the next wave, and you can see how it grows exponentially. Why not, I thought, and came up with a list of obscure things that only a few people know about me. It’s odd, as an artist, to step out into …