Filed under: Step By Step | Tags: dali, new, painting, process, salvador
i need to learn to play again. have fun
I started this three days ago. Until this morning I had an uncomfortable relationship with this painting. I wasn’t happy, it wasn’t giving me the buzz I usually get when I’m this far into a painting. So I watched a section of a Dali video and thought: screw this, I don’t like the painting, I’m going to just paint something else over it. So I hope from now on I can start enjoying it. Thank you, Salvador, you crazy old kook.
Like this:
Filed under: Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, block, color, new, painting, portrait
ugh. i really don't like the hands, even though i'm enjoying the painting itself. i can't wait to dig my claws into it again
on the other hand, i'm liking the face; even though there's still much to be done
Filed under: Step By Step, Stories of Eves, Video | Tags: eves, painting, progress, stories, video
This is a video I made with my son, Khaled, from footage I had taken of myself painting Eve Shreds the Note. Actually, he did most of the work; I just sat there trying to be helpful but ended up hindering his efforts to get on with it.
Music by (in order): Elbow/The Birds, Aimee Mann/Great Beyond, Menomena/Evil Bee, Kate Bush/King of the Mountain and Gary Laswell/Farewell
Filed under: Step By Step, Stories of Eves | Tags: acrylic, collage, eve, giant, painting, Step By Step, tracing paper, untitled
i started this painting two days ago. it's big and i think i'm going to enjoy it. i have so far
Filed under: New Monday, PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition, Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, child, Kuwait, mother, painting, process, Step By Step
i'm not sure if i want to keep her hair 'gray' or not. i kind of like it the way it is. we'll see
Filed under: New Monday, Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, anger, Kuwait, monday, painting
new monday, you'll be ok
The last time I worked on this woman I was livid. I ended up wrecking the painting with awful lines, dull, watered down colors and four letter words (which I won’t be showing here). Click on this four letter word for the original plan, or cross the bridge for previous layers. (more…)
Filed under: Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, canvas, girls, Kuwait, large, painting in progress
This is a painting I started a few days ago. I like to show some stages of my unfinished work because I like the way they look at that stage. I am approaching this painting very differently because I’m using many layers of diluted acrylic. Let’s just see where it goes from here.
Filed under: Moving Pictures, Step By Step, Video | Tags: copic, how to, ink, isograph, Kuwait, ludovico einaudi, markers, pen, primavera, Step By Step, video
And this is how I wreck my pens. I drew this yesterday to Primavera by Ludovico Einaudi. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s all new age-y but I was in the mood. I must say that it was crazy trying to get a more or less finished face in seven minutes and a half. This was my second attempt. Cross the bridge for photos. (more…)
Filed under: Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, Step By Step, Tea, The Teabag Prophecies | Tags: Kuwait, lipton, project, teabag, yasmine alkandari
About a year ago I started collecting teabags because I loved the organic-ness of a used and dried up bag of tea. I also love repetition and the linearity of things. There is something very regimental and military-like about any ordinary object or human being stacked side by side; almost but not altogether uniform. I brought this back out today and restarted work on it with help from my sister, Yasmine, who took all the pictures except for the ones with her in them, obviously. (more…)
Filed under: A Portrait of Yasmine Alkandari, Portrait, Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, alkandari, commission, Kuwait, painting, portrait, Step By Step, yasmine
my new camera is less than spectacular. it doesn't capture the strokes like my old camera did
Yasmina this morning. I’m really enjoying the skirt and will work some more on her crazy top. It just needs to be tweaked here and there. (more…)
Filed under: Dreams, Moving Pictures, Step By Step | Tags: dream, graph paper, ink, Kuwait, markers, surreal, tracing paper
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I love three things: I love tracing paper, I love graph paper, and I love my scanner. You can imagine my delight when I found a pad of tracing graph paper by my scanner! What fun I had with my new dream this morning. (more…)
Filed under: A Portrait of Yasmine Alkandari, Portrait, Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, commission, Kuwait, portrait, Step By Step, yasmine alkandari
I did some things I should have done earlier. Thanks to the advice of several friends, it was suggested that I stop for a while and step back. Another thing I did was change the easel. The one I was working isn’t adjustable (it is, but mine never worked so I would adjust my height to it). I found it much easier to paint Yasmine’s face when hers was at the same level as mine. (more…)
Filed under: A Portrait of Yasmine Alkandari, Rants & Raves, Step By Step | Tags: anger, broken, camera, frustration, Kuwait, yasmine alkandari
It looks much more like her now.
I totally fucked her up. And I broke my camera. And I’m feeling shitty with the world. Sorry, Yasmine. (more…)
Filed under: A Portrait of Yasmine Alkandari, Portrait, Step By Step | Tags: acrylic, commission, Kuwait, oil pastels, portrait, Step By Step, yasmine alkandari
Eek. Although I’m liking the painting itself more, I think I screwed up my sister’s face a little. So I hope she doesn’t see this! I know I’ll make it work, I know I will. (more…)
Filed under: Portrait, Step By Step | Tags: commission, fantasy, Kuwait, oil pastels, paint, painting, portrait, Step By Step
A few days ago I was commissioned to paint a portrait. It’s a scary thing, but I am just starting to enjoy it. I know I still haven’t captured the spirit of this young woman but I know I will. I can’t wait til it’s done. I just hope she will happy with it x (more…)
Filed under: Grow Up & Blow Away, Step By Step | Tags: animation, collage, ink, Kuwait, pen, progress, project, work
It’s been four or five days since I last posted anything, the longest I’ve gone without an update. That’s because I’ve been working on this project that has driven me loony over the past few days and I’m still not done. I just thought I’d touch base with you and give you an insight of my obsession of the last week. (more…)
