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Parcel Paper Sketchbook|Drawings From Another Century
Posted on April 13, 2010 3 Comments
I found this sketchbook the other day. Yes I have many, and still some misplaced, lost and completely forgotten about. This particular book was a gift from Yahia Suwailim who is currently the curator at Boushahri Gallery. It’s a ream of parchment-like paper, held together with string and protected by a corrugated cardboard cover. It’s […]
Sketchbook Z|Three Lonely Sketches
Posted on April 5, 2010 5 Comments
I’m trying to present these sketches in sequence, especially this sketchbook since it follows my pregnancy with Z. There are only three sketches here because the pages after these are the tissue box series which merit their own post.
Sketchbook Z|Twelve Pages
Posted on April 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
These are the first pages of a sketchbook I filled out in 2000. I was just pregnant with my daughter, Z. Reading and looking through it reminds me why I stopped having babies after that.
Black Sketchbook|Boxes on the Mind
Posted on April 2, 2010 12 Comments
I love boxes, I love chairs, and I love women. Ok, that last bit didn’t sound quite right although it’s true. I DO love women. I love drawing and painting them, I love their wide array of emotions and complexities, and I love the fact that I am a woman. This is one of those […]
From the Bspot|Pretty|Originally Posted August 7, 2009
Posted on March 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
I wouldn’t call it an accusation, but people tell me I paint ‘ugly’ women. First of all, I don’t think my women are ugly at all. They are gloriously formidable, headstrong and confrontational. In a way, I think that subconsciously I create them as an alterego. They are not your conventional heroine who goes around saving […]
From the Bspot|Here, Chicken|Originally Posted August 11, 2009
Posted on March 11, 2010 1 Comment
Have you ever had an invisible friend? Or further still, an invisible life? A life that only you and a few others know about, that many of your most loved ones don’t, or can’t even imagine, exists. Summer is about to end. Next week, an old reality will set back in as my other life […]
From the Bspot|Cold Day|Originally Posted August 20, 2009
Posted on March 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
It was a cold day in Paris when I did this sketch. I was in my hotel room playing with this watercolor brush/pen Amira bought me. It’s a plastic tube with a brush at the end. You fill it up with water and then brush over the surface to get a watercolory effect. It was […]
From the Bspot|Plane Sketches|August 22-24, Too Many Planes to Too Many Destinations|Originally Posted July 12, 2009
Posted on March 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
What was supposed to be a simple flight from Frankfurt to Kuwait turned into a nightmarish Juha-like trip which spanned three days. All thanks to the incompetence of our then travel agents. I was traveling with my ex-husband and three children, first to Amsterdam and then a road/train trip around Germany. A few days before our […]
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