Springtide Mandala

Interesting but probably useless fact - I`m full of quirky stuff, each is more useless than the next... yet can never get enough...
TIDES When the sun and moon are aligned, there are exceptionally strong gravitational forces, causing very high and very low tides which are called spring tides, though they have nothing to do with the season. When the sun and moon are not aligned, the gravitational forces cancel each other out, and the tides are not as dramatically high and low. These are called neap tides.

^{Drawn freehand with Staedtler/Zig/Pilot pens - 0.7 and 0.3 - with Prismacolor/Sharpie markers
and use of a lightbox
Original size is A4 on Cartridge paper
Created Feb `09
EDIT Re-scanned Feb `11 as old scanner was pants}

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