Winter can be strange, the whole cold wind and rain concept is very inspiring, although with a touch of sadness (just a little bit of it). The creative juice is flowing nicely these days and I find myself sketching (even in the toilet, sorry if that is too much info!)… I just believe in the saying “If you spend a day without sketching, an artist loses inspiration” … It is a whole universal thing, you know. A connection.
Work in progress
2011 had been a wonderful year on so many levels, 2012 seems promising. Here are few shots of things I’ve been working on, mainly drawing on my room walls (I will update later about each project and they will be added to the gallery).
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- Wall Drawing
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- Super Girl – Kara
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- A Girl I know
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- “Her birth”
Ikbis-Project #2 : Post-Arab-Spring
As part of the Ikbis community projects, we created the second live drawing board project namely Post-Arab-Spring which featured 5 interviews from around the Arab world. This project was commissioned by the Arab thought organization exhibition, December, Dubai – UAE.
I did the live illustration of the presentation which was directed by Mike Derderian and George Akra (Ikbis Team) and edited by Mohannad and Mohammed Jardat, Interviews conducted by Mohammed Shamma.
In case you can not see the embeded video here, please see it here.
Here is the first video in case you missed it.
Note: Both videos are in Arabic language, no subtitles, but you can still enjoy the presentation, I think.
“The Genius of the Crowd” by Charles Bukowski
There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
Hold your balloons
The country of Bhutan has a unique interpretation of what makes their nation a success: instead of focusing on the countries Gross National Product, a concept mostly unrelated to a populations well being, since 1972 they have officially focused on “Gross National Happiness.” Now renowned traveling story collector Jonathan Harris has put together an inspiring website of his 2007 project Balloons of Bhutan. Harris traveled the Himalayan kingdom giving out balloons and capturing a storied portrait of the nations happiness.
A Breathing Sea Sculpture: Guardian of the Hole
This new sculpture by Korean artist U-Ram Choe is beautiful to behold, but it’s far more than meets the eye. The peacefully decaying body of a seal like animal rests on the sea floor, kelp like forms growing from its body… then it begins to move. Using a fascinating internal mechanism, the animal gently breaths; its forest of kelp delicately waving above.
Mr.Charlie (Sketch to paint)
Just another walk, another good day for coffee and a pencil sketch… And there was an Elephant in my head! His name is Mr.Charlie, and he was kidnapped for some reason, I think he is a bad-ass in reality, maybe a double-agent sort of thing… who knows! Mr.Charlie dropped from my head to my hand to the sketchbook with sweet pencil shades (Lately, I’ve been working on Pencil shading, If you’ve seen Wonder Woman Sketch)… Once cup of coffee and a Blueberry muffin later, and about 30 minutes, I thought… “Mr.Charlie, you are in trouble!”
Wonder Woman
As a Coffee+Doughnuts fun sketch today, I took the Amazonia princess as my muse tonight… Started with a pencil sketch on my sketchbook, cleaned the sketch after scanning (300dpi – the higher the resolution the better your drawing results will be)… then started adding some shading and colors all around… not done yet, but this is a good one-hour work. Woot Woot!