After reading Growing Greenpatches' post I thought I'd have another go.
I used coloured pencils so that I could see what I had done.
This labyrinth has a very short path, but there is still a fair bit of room for symbolism; you travel up, and round, and down, and anti-clockwise, and clockwise, before you reach the centre.
Thinking about how one could use a home-drawn labyrinth for mediation and prayer, I came up with the idea of drawing it over a picture or shaded paper, so that as you trace the path with your finger, or a pencil, you travel across different colours or images.
Maybe another time.
If you want to end up with a pencil-path with a longer route, you start with more "spokes" radiating out from the centre, with dots between each "spoke". The ones here have four spokes (arranged in a cross) and four dots. Follow the same sequence for joining the ends of the spokes to the dots. Just make sure your piece of paper is big enough...
Great minds obviously think alike! I was working on a post for A Gracing Maze yesterday, thanks to Greenpatches, and when I came to put the finishing touches this morning you'd beaten me to it. Your drawing's better than mine - have a look!
ReplyDeleteI love your idea of drawing over colours or images and will try it. Tracing paper??