About the Artist...

Erik Mayer

Erik's early art experience include winning a coloring contest at a department store and getting yelled at in Math class for drawing. Erik Mayer had been doing spiritual drawings as part of his journaling work since 1984. In 2000, he met someone who had learned the technique of drawing mandalas with color pencils on black paper. He had been strongly drawn to an oil painting technique of painting on a black canvas. This gave the painting a very luminous feel. He saw the same luminous effect with the color pencils on black paper and he knew he had to do it. He took several classes on creating mandalas using this technique. Erik's mandalas have been featured in several shows and in a book recently published on mandalas. He has also done some work with Native American sand paintings. Erik has started to lead his own mandala classes in Ohio and Michigan. Erik's mandalas can be found on his website at www.erikmayer.com. His email address is erikmayer@yahoo.com.
 
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