Filed under: Home, The Early Bird | Tags: color, drawings, Home, Kuwait, restaurant, sketches, The Early Bird
the early bird is a quaint, little restaurant with bite
Filed under: Home, Um Kulthum | Tags: acquisition, interior, Kuwait, painting, portrait, Um Kulthum
um kulthum presides over tareq and hanan's lounge. to her left is a lovely pot of orchids
to um kulthum's right is a painting by tareq titled 'inside out'. tareq and hanan have a very structured and modern home. i love the way um kulthum serves as a break in the linear aspects of tareq's painting and one of the windows to her left.
Filed under: Moving Pictures, Step By Step, Teddy Bee | Tags: Kuwait, painting, Step By Step, teddy b, Teddy Bee, video
Filed under: Rants & Raves, The Book of Traffic Lights & Other Observations | Tags: diary, ink, Kuwait, notes, observations, sketch, traffic
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Filed under: Sketchbook, Sometimes I think I'm a photographer, The Bspot | Tags: dress, gown, ink, Kuwait, pen, photography, sketch
Filed under: Sketchbook, The Bspot | Tags: black, ink, Kuwait, paper, pen, Ramona the Pest, sketch
Who remembers Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby? The Ramona books were among my favorite in the third grade. And I loved the illustrations by Alan Tiegreen. His Ramona had skinny legs and a big head with a bob of scraggly hair. The books epitomized the way I thought life should be at the age of 8. This particular sketch reminded me of the way Ramona would storm out, fists clenched and one particular incident with apples in the basement. It’s a scene where Ramona finds a crate of apples and takes one bite from each and discards it. Her theory is (or it could have been something her sister, Beatrice, told her once) that the best bite of an apple is the first.
Filed under: Color Sketchbook, PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition | Tags: color, ink, Kuwait, pen, Portraits, sketch
A few years ago I bought a sketchbook. At the time I couldn’t find these sketchbooks in Kuwait so would buy them in Europe or the States. It was always special when I bought a new one and I took very good care that the books were themed by medium and state of mind. This particular sketchbook was very emo-oriented as opposed to being whimsical like my other ones. I think most of it was filled using Japanese poster paints. The book itself has a very antique, rugged feel to it, like it had been left out in the rain and sun. I haven’t filled all the pages yet, but I hope to some day. (more…)
Filed under: Rants & Raves, Sketchbook | Tags: fruitcake, ink, Kuwait, pen, sketch
forbidden fruitcake
Why do we accept fruitcakes? Well, it’s not my tradition to receive a fruitcake once a year but there was once an attempt at gifting me one and I refused politely. I matter-of-factly stated that neither I nor my children will eat it and it will go to waste.
When did we, as humans, learn to accept behavior unacceptable to us? Why can’t we just be honest about stuff that shouldn’t even get us in trouble in the first place. If I don’t want a cookie I should be able to say no and the offerer should be able to process that ‘no’ is a refusal and not a stab at coyness.
If I don’t like someone, I should be able to tell them and it shouldn’t provoke offense. I’d want someone to tell me that they don’t like me (they’d have to actually not like me). Not out of the blue, but if I’m pushing to be their friend and they don’t really want it, they should tell me. No offense would be taken. And why do we insist on taking someone’s number when we meet them. I stopped taking numbers, unless I genuinely want to call. I have become almost rude about it.
So try not to be a fruitcake. Be with people you like, eat what you like, sleep when you want (and you can), and do whatever you wish without hurting others. Merry Christmas in October!
Filed under: Color Sketchbook, The Bspot | Tags: color, depilation, hair, Kuwait, poster paint, sketch, wax
i hate you hair
Filed under: Sketchbook, The Bspot | Tags: humility, ink, Kuwait, nudity, pen, shame, sketch
no nip slips here
I dream a lot that I’m naked and exposed. Of course a dream like that would probably suggest vulnerability, weakness and humiliation. At least that’s what I think. The worst naked dreams are those when I’m in a public (or even private) toilet and I can’t go because the door is missing or there are too many people in the bathroom with me. I get stage fright as it is. And another thing: what do you cover when you find yourself spontaneously denuded? There’s a story about a veiled lady on an airline who failed to lock the lavatory door. When someone accidentally walked in on her, she covered her head, not her private bits. I think if I ever found myself in a situation where my clothes just blew off me, I’d fall to the ground and curl into a fetal position. That will take care of the front bits and with the other hand cover the back (mind you it would need to be a big hand). What would you do?
Filed under: Color Sketchbook, Sketchbook, The Bspot | Tags: atom, color, Kuwait, science, sketch
dizzy
Filed under: fairuz, Step By Step | Tags: acrylics, fairuz, fun, Kuwait, portrait, Step By Step, upside down
round you go
A few days ago I received a comment about the platform Fairuz is placed upon. I disagreed with what the person wrote even though initially I ultimately pictured her to be floating. I haven’t fully changed my mind but I’m tinkering with the idea of meeting the two ideas half-way, perhaps having her blend into the platform. I don’t know, I’ll see how it works out. Meanwhile, there’s no harm in having a little bit of fun and experimentation (which are two of art’s biggest components for me) in the process. (more…)
Filed under: Color Sketchbook, Sketchbook | Tags: color, ink, Kuwait, pen, poster paint, Sketchbook
i'm so pretty, you're so pretty
I wouldn’t call it an accusation, but people tell me I paint ‘ugly’ women. First of all, I don’t think my women are ugly at all. They are gloriously formidable, headstrong and confrontational. In a way, I think that subconsciously I create them as an alterego. They are not your conventional heroine who goes around saving people at night. But they save me on a daily basis. Secondly, this woman here, she’s quite pretty I think.
Filed under: Color Sketchbook, The Bspot | Tags: bspot, chicken, color, eggs, ink, Kuwait, pen, sketch, Sketchbook
cluck cluck
Have you ever had an invisible friend? Or further still, an invisible life? A life that only you and a few others know about, that many of your most loved ones don’t, or can’t even imagine, exists. Summer is about to end. Next week, an old reality will set back in as my other life returns. A life where I’m a little girl again; not little as in ‘young’, but little as in being denied the responsibility which comes with the practical meaning of freedom. But until then, I’ll be feeding my invisible chicken, feasting on their invisible eggs and enjoying my invisible life.
call don't call
I always put my phone under the pillow at night. That’s because I use it as an alarm clock and whatever I have as the alarm signal, I am soon conditioned to be very annoyed with. At least when it’s under my pillow the sound is muffled. And because I use my phone, sometimes people might call or message later than my bedtime and that’s just as annoying as the alarm going off at five in the morning.
What’s under your pillow?
