Cindy McBride

This year, I am one of the core artists at EWMA (Enterprising Women Making Art).  Prior to this, I have created art at the LifeSkills studio and a private studio on 5th and Yukon.  Most of my art is abstract and my degree in Math and Physics influences all of my designs.

When I was in high school, I doodled a design on one of my binders. After finishing, a lady told me it was a mandala.  I had heard that some monks would make them out of sand.  I recently looked them up on Etsy.com, and discovered that they were all made with rulers.  I, however, make them freehand.  I use watercolors to paint the mandalas, as well as botanicals used in perfume, on cards. I also paint animals in oil. 

With my Small Arts Grant I am silk-screening mandalas on t-shirts.  I am also painting large mandalas, with acrylics, on canvases.