I've done a few hand-colored mandalas in the same style as this before. It's simply the same image rotated and repeated 4 times. The difference with this one is that this whole image is a single carved block.
Originally I was going to do something simpler. I wanted to do a tiger chasing it's own tail. But the more I fiddled around with ideas, the more I just wanted to make another elaborate mandala. It's much more time consuming, especially when I color them, but so worth the final product.
This is my 5th year participating in New Year's Exchanges with the Baren Forum for Woodblock Printmaking. Here are my prints from previous years' trades:
Year of the Ox, 2021
Year of the Rat, 2020
Year of the Pig, 2019
Year of the Dog. 2018
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