Artwork consisting of different media
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - BEGINNING SOME GEOMETRIC PATTERNS I have not yet completed the first signature of this album, which contains designs in the Arabesque style, but needed a change of mood for a while. I therefore began the second signature, which will contain geometric designs. For some time I have been following…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - FOURTH AND FIFTH PAGES - CENTREFOLD SHAMSA For the centrefold of the first signature of this album, I decided to do a full page spread. As with the shamsa on the first page, I drew a half shamsa, because a full circle would be too small to be able…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - THIRD PAGE - TEZHIP 2 Another Tezhip to face the page with the first one. ("Tezhip" is the Turkish word for illuminated art - artwork with gold). As before, I used my gold gouache paint, and Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours for this. I followed the same tracing method as…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - SECOND PAGE - TEZHIP 1 "Tezhip" is the Turkish word for illuminated art - artwork with gold. Today I drew a lozenge-shape illuminated with gold and incorporating biomorphics (small flowers and leaves). I drew it on the reverse of the first page, and distressed the edges with inks as…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - FIRST PAGE - GREEN SHAMSA I began this small project primarily to demonstrate my new "Divide and Rule" drawing instruments, which I bought for the purpose of drawing concentric circles, radiating and parallel lines for my art projects. They are proving very easy to use. The Circle Tool and…
HIDDEN PAPERCLIPS FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS - ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS I have completed the embossed toilet paper rolls project for now - although I may come back to it and make some tags. For the moment I am setting aside the making of elements for albums and doing something different - I…
POUCHES FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS - ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS This is a follow-up to my earlier post on how to make little pouches and hidden paperclips from toilet paper rolls. Here are the pouches after I had finished constructing them. Time to have some fun with embellishments! These are the fronts of…
POUCHES AND PAPERCLIPS FROM TOILET PAPER ROLLS Continuing with my album elements project, I have made a collection of items from the cores of toilet paper rolls. I recently came across a YouTube video and learnt how to emboss the toilet rolls and make tiny pouches out of them. As I folded and…
DIVIDE AND RULE - ISLAMIC ART No - that isn't a political statement - it's an art project using some exciting new drawing equipment! Divide and Rule Some time ago I came across a YouTube short, showing an exciting collection of specialist drawing materials. I was intrigued, and visited the site, "Divide and…
OVAL WINDOW POCKET WITH PULL-OUT TAGS - CORRECTED AND COMPLETED When I first worked on this element, I intended to make a pull-out tag for both the larger oval window and the smaller round one, but forgot the latter. I thought it would be too late to do anything about it as I…
