Filed under: Queens of Refuse, slideshows, Storybook Drawings, Video | Tags: book, chores, cross-hatch, ink, pen, process, video
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I’m drawing this for the next book in my series. The theme and title of the book is ‘Chores’. This time I wanted to include one of my storybook illustrations and this one will be it.
Filed under: Sketchbook, Third Spiral Sketchbook, Video | Tags: process, sketch, Sketchbook, spiral, video
Filed under: My Friends & Me, Video | Tags: bianca, birdtalk, video, vlog
Thanks, Bianca, that was fun! And Mohammed Al-Saeed, brilliant photography (or is it cinematography?). I’m very impressed. Oh, and I followed Bianca’s advice and watched most of this on mute. I just can’t bear to hear myself talk. It’s physically impossible.
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: Cough Coughing, Hand in Oil, Moving Pictures, Video | Tags: cough, coughing, hand, Kuwait, menomena, oil, video
I’m going through a very difficult time in my life at the moment. When I have times like these, I tend to eschew brushes and other means of transporting paint onto canvas; in other words, I use my hands. Or I paint on my hands. Sometimes I also paint on my arms and legs. Maybe it’s just my own version of self-mutilation. At least I’m not cutting myself, right? Not on purpose anyway.
After I painted my fingers using my black paint (which I’m kicking myself in the ass for; my supply of black acrylic paint is quickly dwindling), I took some photos, then decided to make a little video, and finally added sound, all this with the help of my super-hero son, Khaled Abu-Ghazaleh. I liked the segment so much that I’ve decided to make a full-length video to this, one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands: Cough Coughing by Menomena*. So look out for that, coming sooner or later.
*When searching for the song (which I had on my iTunes but needed online), I discovered that there is already an official Cough Coughing video! It won’t deter me from making my own, though.
Filed under: Moving Pictures, PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition, Video | Tags: ali sultan, charcoal, drawing, Exhibition, hamad alsaab, Kuwait, monira al qadiri, pretty green bullet, Sultan Gallery, thuraya albaqsami, video
Because I’m always showing videos and slideshows of my works in progress, I thought it would be a good idea to turn the tables and photograph others and their creative processes. So I set up a little work station and let people do their thing. Artists include Yasmeen Dimashkie, Yousef Abu-Ghazaleh, Khaled Abu-Ghazaleh, Zainab Abu-Ghazaleh, Omar Dimashkie, his friends Andrew and Evan, Lina Al-Adwani, Ali Sultan, Hamad AlSaab, Thuraya Al-Baqsami, Mai Alnakib, Rania Al-Nakib, Hind Al-Adwani, Hussa Al-Hassawi, Aseel AlYagoub, Sharifa Abdulsalam, Monira Al Qadiri, Mohammed Al-Kouh, Hassan Alkandari, Yasmine Alkandari, Waleed Shaalan, Siba Orabi and Suzan Al-Mutawa. I know there were a couple more who participated, but I didn’t get the names. Thanks, everyone. I love people who cooperate and get into the spirit of things! Cross the bridge for sectioned photos of this piece. (more…)
