Filed under: Cut & Paste, Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, slideshows | Tags: collage, decopatch, flower, Kuwait, rose, ruby, slideshow, yellow
ruby & her three yellow roses, february 27, 2011, multi-media on canvas
Sunday morning is usually the day I like to play. I haven’t had this chance for a while because of preparations for my upcoming Stories of Eves exhibition at the Tilal Gallery. It felt great to work on a small canvas, without a deadline or the pressures that come with it. The name ‘Ruby’ just popped into my head as I started to type the title of this piece.
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Filed under: Derwent Journal Two, Sketchbook | Tags: chain, derwent, freedom, hold, journal, possession, release, responsibility, Sketchbook, tether, theft
the only thing between you and me is an obstacle of flickering bulbs
Filed under: Postcards, Watercolor | Tags: friend, imaginary, Kuwait, postcard, watercolor
Filed under: Postcards | Tags: black, celebration, day, flag, green, independence, Kuwait, kuwaiti, national, postcard, red, white
Filed under: Derwent Journal Two, Sketchbook | Tags: bagpipe, dance, derwent, habban, ink, journal, persian, Sketchbook, tradition
Filed under: Postcards, Watercolor | Tags: attraction, black, blue, cold, hot, magnet, north, opposites, poles, postcard, red, south, watercolor, white
Filed under: Derwent Journal Two, Sketchbook | Tags: can, derwent, ears, garden, harvest, ink, journal, organs, Sketchbook, transplant, watering
Filed under: Eventful, Kuwait 50/20 Exhibition | Tags: 50/20, abdalla alawadi, aseel alyaqoub, Exhibition, gallery, george lewis, sultan, thomas modeen, william andersen
the gallery and farida's ubiquitous water bottles
I know I said the last time that I finally made it to the first installment of The Sultan Gallery’s 50/20 Exhibition. But this time I finally, finally made it. It’s been a week since the show opened. I like the whole idea of having two parts of a show, version one and version two. It appeals to my sense of applying different elements to a single diagram or model. Not a sequel but a segment which completes another.
*If you scroll down, you will see that there is an asterisk after Thomas Modeen’s work. I’m doing the asterisk thing kind of backwards. Please click here for better photos (and a thorough explanation) of his work.
Filed under: Gallery Tilal | Tags: bubble wrap, Exhibition, gallery, Paintings, preparation, tilal
i said farewell to my twenty-four paintings today. i'm not sure why, but i'm feeling quite down in the dumps. and the whole thing feels very anti-climactic because there's a month left until the opening of my exhibition, so it feels like i'm missing the excitement i usually feel right before opening night
Filed under: Derwent Journal Two, Sketchbook | Tags: delusion, derwent, imaginary, ink, journal, Kuwait, loss, love, pain, Sketchbook
Filed under: moleskine, Notes & Doodles | Tags: center, doodles, embroidery, ink, meeting, moleskine, notes, palestinian culture
Filed under: Notes & Doodles | Tags: cartoons, disney, doodles, ferb, finneas, hannah, montana, notebook, notes, TV
how my morning goes
Filed under: moleskine | Tags: break, heart, hurt, Kuwait, love, moleskine, valentine
give me one, i'll give you twenty
Siouxsie & The Banshees Peek a boo
Filed under: Derwent Journal Two, Sketchbook | Tags: derwent, dragonflies, fear, ink, insects, journal, Kuwait, phobia, Sketchbook
Filed under: My Studio, Stories of Eves | Tags: acrylic, eve, jana alnaqeeb, photography, stories, studio
eve takes a profile pic
Jana came in this morning to photograph the complete Stories of Eves collection. I tried to set up the studio the best way I could to achieve maximum efficiency. I love to feel that I can win over time, so I’m always finding ways to reduce it. So much that I think I can be a little annoying. Jana and I worked like a machine and I am so happy with the results. The photos do my paintings justice. Thank you, J!
- jana and the mob
Filed under: Gallery Tilal, My Studio, Stories of Eves | Tags: acrylic, color, eve, gallery, Kuwait, painting, psychedelic, rays, studio, tilal
i don't know if you remember, but i said i would do two more of these psychedelicky eves and i just finished numbers three and four last night. i'm sure they will look a lot more formidable with a less cluttered background (ie. in the gallery)! this morning, these four paintings acted as large, flat building blocks for me. the high-contrast, colorful rays lend themselves to being re-formatted and re-interpreted. as always, i'm turning things into fun and games. i'll never grow up
