William Belan (nicknamed Mandala Bill) is a Cleveland, Ohio native who creates the majority of his digital work from an unlikely canvas – his cell phone. He finds the use of this restricted, yet always available medium, a perfect tool to create with pure essence.
The creation process of Energy Art
He begins with a gut feeling “it’s time,” his “palette,” and the set of evolving processes that he’s developed through long periods of solitude, meditations, and repetition. The immersion of recursive iteration then begins, the creation, manipulation, and combination of layers, (which are usually photos taken by William on the same cellphone he uses to create).
Through adjustments applied to these layers, such as color, hue, contrast, opacity, and brightness to name just a few, the resulting creation is known as Energy Art, a vibrant and radiating abstract healing art form. Energy Art uses combinations of color, shapes, and parts of images. These frequencies applied together create a sacred modality of energies that, when viewed, produce a range of healing effects on its viewers.
Healing effect of Bill’s art
Over the last six years, Bill has come to realize that this unique experience of his, a pioneered new set of processes which heal the viewer, ‘Light Medicine’ of sorts, holds ties with ancient sacred practices, as found in Vedic texts and other esoteric belief systems.
Mandala, which commonly represents the cosmos, a microcosm of the universe, or “coming from a center,” is symbolic of these healing energies found throughout Bill’s artwork. It’s from an inner point within himself where these visions of spiritual powers manifest.
Bill believes that art is so much more than digital painting. It is an opportunity to saturate one’s self, if one allows, in an experience filled with pure love and light.
Enjoy Bill’s digital art collection and paintings in acrylic and oil (click on the first picture to open an art gallery in full page):
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William Belan, Meowzers, Digital Art
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William Belan, How so Meow, Digital Art
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William Belan, $$$ Kitty, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Three Eyes, One Brain, Digital Art
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William Belan, Awakened Eye, Digital Art
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William Belan, Infinite Vision Fractal, Digital Art
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William Belan, Protected by Love, Digital, 16×20 in
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William Belan, Beyond the Lotus, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Energy Art, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Colors, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Self-Portrait, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Self-Portrait, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Under the Umbrella Shade, Mixed Media, 24×24 in
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Mandala in Paris, Digital Art
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William Belan, Make Love, Digital Art
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William Belan, Fancy Way to Say Hello, Digital Art
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William Belan, Yantra, Digital Art
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William Belan, Mandala, Digital Art
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William Belan, Cinnamon Swirl and a Hot Headed Girl, Digital Art
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William Belan, Cotton Candy Round-Abouts, Digital Art
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William Belan, Golden Gate Mandala, Digital Art
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William Belan, Bright Lights Big City Fight, Digital Art
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William Belan, Flower of Life, Digital Art
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William Belan, Vision Mandala, Digital Art
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William Belan, Leaving the Art Supply Store, Digital Art
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William Belan, Taking a Look at the Ordinary in a New Perspective, Digital Art
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William Belan, Hooved Chicken Fish Rye, Digital Art
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William Belan, Believe in Your Vision, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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William Belan, Riptide Horizon, Digital Art
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William Belan, One Way Mirror, Digital Art
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William Belan, Experimentation with Marbles
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William Belan, Dreamy Smile, Digital Art
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William Belan, Resisting the Change, Digital Art
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William Belan, Roller Coasted, Digital Art
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William Belan, They Have Left Behind Their People and Their Earth, Digital Art
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William Belan, Abstract, Digital Art
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