Paintings Category
new pictures on friday
Posted on November 18, 2011 3 Comments
I started a new series titled Paintings About Sitting today. I really, really enjoyed doing these, from dying the coffee filters with food coloring to cutting and deco-patching the pieces onto the canvas and finally adding in my sitting ladies. Fun, fun, fun!
sisters
Posted on October 9, 2011 2 Comments
I really struggled with this one. I thought it was finished but I knew deep inside it was a very weak painting. But sometimes I’m lazy and will pretend it’s finished just so that I can literally sleep at night. I even hung it up on my wall in a last ditch effort at verisimilitude. […]
new painting|continued
Posted on September 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Added August 12: This painting now resides in the home of Birgitte Simonian in sunny California.
painting on september 13th
Posted on September 13, 2011 1 Comment
Sometimes I take an old practice painting from when I was giving lessons and put it in some kind of context.
new painting|a burger & peaches
Posted on September 9, 2011 1 Comment
I’m surprised I didn’t eat the still life. I came this close to it.
a mother and her daughter at the park
Posted on August 12, 2011 2 Comments
I started this painting on July 29th, worked on it a little last Sunday and happily finished with it this afternoon. If you’d like to see some of the previous layers of this painting, click here.
new painting|drinks & cigarettes
Posted on July 13, 2011 5 Comments
This is a commissioned work I started two days ago and finished this morning. Weeks ago, the request was simple: to paint a picture influenced by Sadu weaving. As simple as my goal was, I found myself floundering under the weight of the original painting I started for the job. It just wasn’t working out for […]
new painting|a murder of ballerinas
Posted on July 9, 2011 7 Comments
This is a painting I started weeks and weeks ago. It was originally intended to be a painting someone had commissioned me for. But she just didn’t want to be. And now I think I know why.
Ballerina Pink
Posted on June 12, 2011 3 Comments
I finally completed my latest confection. Why am I suddenly in the mood for cotton candy?
Stories of Eves|Complete Collection
Posted on April 3, 2011 3 Comments
eve takes a profile pic, 2010, acrylic and collage on canvas, 230 x 140 cm Here is my complete Stories of Eves collection. The paintings were photographed by Jana Alnaqeeb.
Gallery Tilal|Stories of Eves|The Fitting*
Posted on January 18, 2011 6 Comments
This painting is a little jarring on the eyes, but sometimes I feel I have to step out of my comfort zone a little. I felt that the lines emanating from behind her, although at first a playful way to cover my canvas, became very necessary as they complemented her unsettling gaze. To quote just […]
Gallery Tilal|Eve’s Letter From Eve
Posted on December 10, 2010 8 Comments
There are so many stories here.
Teddy Bee, My Girls & Me
Posted on September 26, 2010 1 Comment
I finally finished the painting this morning. Click here for the Facebook invite, and here for Teddy’s blog.
Stories of Eves|Eve & Adam
Posted on September 19, 2010 4 Comments
I decided for my March exhibition at Gallery Tilal to continue my Stories of Eves series. I just feel like I haven’t explored the subject to my fullest capacity (in other words, I’m still not bored with it). And in light of some personal current events, there is still so much I want to say […]
A Portrait of Simon Balsom
Posted on August 4, 2010 7 Comments
Well, the painting is done. I’m happy with it as my first oil painting in decades. I’m not going to bother too much about resemblance or even technique. I’m just going to tell myself what I tell everyone I ‘teach’: You will only get better with every painting you do. Oils. Wow. Me.
New Portrait, New Everything
Posted on July 24, 2010 8 Comments
Yesterday I watched a documentary about portrait painter Alice Neel, beautifully filmed by her grandson Andrew Neel. The moment I looked at the DVD cover, lent to me by my sister-in-law Jana, I felt a connection with her work: as if I’d done it, or I could do it, or I do it in my […]
Fairuz
Posted on April 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
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 […]
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