Filed under: Parcel Paper Sketchbook From the Nineties, Sketchbook | Tags: butcher, Kuwait, paper, parcel, parchment, Sketchbook
I found this sketchbook the other day. Yes I have many, and still some misplaced, lost and completely forgotten about. This particular book was a gift from Yahia Suwailim who is currently the curator at Boushahri Gallery. It’s a ream of parchment-like paper, held together with string and protected by a corrugated cardboard cover. It’s in very fragile condition. I hope it’s still in tact by the time I finish archiving it. (more…)
Filed under: Home, ophelia | Tags: acquisitions, jamal abdel-rahim, Kuwait, ophelia, painting, Paintings, yousef oun
This morning I visited Ophelia. I have never done this before, just visited a painting of mine in it’s own right. It took my breath away when I spotted it as soon as I walked through Shatha Al-Qatami’s front door. But my first glimpse of Ophelia was through a mirror, which is what took me aback. I’m very directionally impaired and this sense of dislocation had me quite confused for a few seconds. It’s thanks to Shatha pointing at the actual painting that I found Ophelia looking regally over the dining area, a hostess awaiting her guests. (more…)
Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Z | Tags: black, diary, ink, Kuwait, pen, pregnancy, white
Filed under: Step By Step, Teddy Bee | Tags: acrylic, bear, Kuwait, painting, Step By Step, stuffed, teddy b, Teddy Bee, women
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Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Cut & Paste, Experimentation | Tags: black, color, decopatch, fashion, ink, Kuwait, lbo jzazz, marker, pen, Sketchbook, strip
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Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Z | Tags: black, chairs, diary, ink, Kuwait, pen, pregnancy, violin, white
Filed under: moleskine | Tags: ink, Kuwait, moleskine, notes, observations, pen, writing
I hate Moleskine. They had to go and invent the most irresistible  notebooks. I just can’t help buying them, stealing them from friends, giving them to friends, touching them, smelling them. I love Moleskine. (more…)
Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Z | Tags: black, diary, ink, Kuwait, pen, pregnancy, white
Filed under: moleskine, Notes & Doodles | Tags: call, doodles, ink, Kuwait, lists, moleskine, notes, Palestine, pen, to-do
Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Z | Tags: excessing drooling, ink, Kuwait, pen, pregnancy, ptyalism, sketch, Sketchbook Z
In mid-pregnancy I developed this condition called ptyalism. Wikipedia insensitively (or possibly more accurately) calls it drooling. I was going through an average of five-yes five-boxes of tissues a day. The tissues became a huge part of my daily life for weeks until I discovered that mistika gum worked wonders to subdue my salivary glands. (more…)
Filed under: Step By Step, Teddy Bee | Tags: acrylic, bear, figures, Kuwait, painting, Step By Step, stuffed, teddy b, Teddy Bee, women
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Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Z | Tags: black, diary, ink, pen, pregnancy, Sketchbook, white
I’m trying to present these sketches in sequence, especially this sketchbook since it follows my pregnancy with Z. There are only three sketches here because the pages after these are the tissue box series which merit their own post.
Filed under: Sketchbook, Sketchbook Z | Tags: diary, ink, Kuwait, morning sickness, nausea, pen, pregnancy, sketch, Sketchbook
These are the first pages of a sketchbook I filled out in 2000. I was just pregnant with my daughter, Z. Reading and looking through it reminds me why I stopped having babies after that. (more…)
Filed under: Zahra | Tags: anger, burial, color, exhume, Experimentation, failure, Kuwait, mail, pain, paper, sorrow, torture, watercolor, Zahra
zahra in the beginning
This is Zahra. I painted her sometime between September and October on a watercolor postcard with the intention of putting her through a few tasks and ultimately mailing her to a friend of mine. She passed all tasks with flying colors, but alas did not survive Kuwait’s postal service (sent from Kuwait to Kuwait). Poor Zahra. I don’t know where she is right now. (more…)
Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Sketchbook | Tags: black, box, boxes, chair, folding, ink, Kuwait, paper, pen, sketch, Sketchbook, tracing paper
I love boxes, I love chairs, and I love women. Ok, that last bit didn’t sound quite right although it’s true. I DO love women. I love drawing and painting them, I love their wide array of emotions and complexities, and I love the fact that I am a woman. This is one of those drawings that incorporates all three of my favorite subjects with a medium I love: ink on tracing paper. I love tracing paper. I love the way it crinkles and has a mind of its own. If you were to spend a whole month with a box, chair, woman or tracing paper, which would it be? (more…)
