An example of using this graphic as a mac screen saver
After following a tutorial and discovering I haven't got one of the options available to me, I carried on and did my own thing of discovery and these were the results which are so flexible and I had fun experimenting with the colour combinations. It was a morning of discovery and hopefully this will inspire others to not give up if you don't succeed the first time.
Initial tutorial: https://www.behance.net/gallery/13410733/Mandala-of-the-Circus-Princess-(AI-tut)
Further information when I needed to know how to do gradient in the stroke line: https://astutegraphics.com/blog/how-to-apply-a-gradient-fill-to-strokes-in-adobe-illustrator-cs5-and-earlier/