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new painting|september 6th
Posted on September 6, 2011 2 Comments
My kiddies are back in school and I’m free! Free, I tell you, free! So I had a lovely morning of relaxation, just me and my paints. Bliss. I wouldn’t have stopped painting but I must be leaving soon to pick up my little ones. I can’t wait to get back to this painting as […]
new painting|unfinished|untitled
Posted on August 25, 2011 2 Comments
I started this painting a while ago but just got back to it today. I still have some decisions to make about it. As always, please no comments until it’s done. Sometimes people give me suggestions and although I appreciate that, I like to work on my paintings without other people’s voices in my head!
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|july 29 pm
Posted on July 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Of course this is still a work in progress. I have an idea of what I want to do next but I must be patient and wait for it to dry completely.
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.
new painting|escaping ballerinas|july 1 & july 2
Posted on July 2, 2011 5 Comments
I started this painting yesterday. I didn’t think I’d get this far, but I got really into it. I’m very much enjoying the patterning, and I made it a rule to avoid all opaqueness, which is very different from my usual approach to painting. I only broke the rule at the end because it was […]
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?
Ballerina Pink|Sunday, June 5 am
Posted on June 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
Although I love receiving comments on PrettyGreenBullet, I publish these ‘painting-in-progress’ posts simply to share. It’s hard for me to work on a painting with other people’s voices in my head. I do know and appreciate that different people prefer these paintings at different stages. As for me, I not only enjoy the process, but […]
Homes|Inspire Advertising|Alsaleh Building
Posted on May 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
Over lunch, my brother Mohammed asked me if I knew who, from Inspire Advertising, bought one of my paintings from 2004’s Cultural Re-Expressions 101 exhibition. I told him that my memory doesn’t extend that far back. So he showed me this picture he took of one of my paintings outside the company’s offices, in the […]
door
Posted on April 30, 2011 1 Comment
About a year ago, one of my home’s doors had to be broken in order to get one of my children locked inside, out. And now, a whole year later, I finally have a new door. When the workers came in to replace it with the new one, and proceeded to take the broken one […]
Photographing Eves on a Monday
Posted on February 14, 2011 Leave a Comment
Jana came in this morning to photograph the complete Stories of Eves collection. I tried to set up the studio the best way I could to achieve maximum efficiency. I love to feel that I can win over time, so I’m always finding ways to reduce it. So much that […]
eve passes a note
Posted on February 2, 2011 Leave a Comment
I think she’s finished. I put a note in her hand because her expression and intent gaze reminded me of how as children, in class, we would focus on the teacher’s face while subtly flicking the note to its intended recipient.
eve’s giant face|from new untitled work
Posted on January 31, 2011 Leave a Comment
Her changing face.
Gallery Tilal|Stories of Eves|Six Eves Play Hide-and-Go-Seek
Posted on January 26, 2011 4 Comments
As a child, I always played hide-and-go-seek with a little trepidation and absolutely no sense of fun and game. How could anyone enjoy a game where you had to hide in a lonely, isolated place while someone sought you out? It’s far from pleasant. As for the seeker, how terrifying and just as existentially creepy. […]
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