Filed under: Celebrity, fairuz, Paintings, Portrait | Tags: acrylic, diva, fairuz, Kuwait, lebanese, oil pastels, painting, portrait, saint, singer
fairuz, 2010, acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, 135cm x 250cm
Please remember that Fairuz is on display at the Boushahri Gallery for a week. The gallery is located in Salmiya, Baghdad Street, Building 36. Park your car in the back, there’s usually lots of space. If you’re walking, you can go straight through the side door (by the camera store). Morning hours are 10am-1pm, evening hours are 5pm-9pm except for Thursdays. The gallery is closed on Fridays.
Filed under: Celebrity, fairuz, Step By Step | Tags: acrylics, diva, fairuz, lebanese, painting, singer, Step By Step
you still have the same mouth but something is different
Filed under: Celebrity, fairuz, Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, diva, fairuz, Kuwait, lebanese, oil pastels, painting, portrait, Step By Step
it's still not her mouth! but i'm keeping it for now because she needs to sing
She’s driving me mad, even though I am enjoying painting her. She looks like the spawn of David Bowie and Tori Amos if they ever got together. Her mouth was so easy to sketch but painting it has proven rather difficult. I’m getting there though. (more…)
Filed under: Celebrity, fairuz, Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, diva, fairuz, Kuwait, lebanese, painting, singer, Step By Step
Fairuz you will get your mouth back soon. i'm just having a little trouble with it at the moment
She’s proving to be a little difficult. It’s very hard getting bits and pieces from one photo or another. I really need to feel her and it’s not happening yet. But it’ll come. I can’t wait to get back to my girls. At least they don’t fight back. Not like Fairuz anyway. (more…)
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fairuz and the flower in her hair
When I painted Um Kulthum, it was because I was inspired by an exhibition at 360 mall to paint her and not her music or who she was. I don’t claim to have an understanding of Fairuz but I know how I feel when I see her or hear her music. She and her songs evoke memories of my childhood whereas Um Kulthum did not. Um Kulthum was a challenge I enjoyed the experience of standing up to; Fairuz I am painting with something more than that, a personal treasure of memories. So let’s see what happens!
I am using some photographs. But I feel that I don’t really need them. This sketch I did from memory and feeling. I might need the pictures just to inspire me or get some technical help and color inspiration. (more…)
Filed under: Celebrity, Paintings, Portrait, Um Kulthum | Tags: diva, dress, egyptian, goddess, green, handerchief, icon, Kuwait, legend, portrait, scarf, singer, Um Kulthum
um kulthum, 2010, acrylic on canvas, approx. 135cm x 250cm
