Um Kulthum
i'm in love with it, but it isn't over until she sings I FINALLY started this painting. It’s been a long time coming now. I listened to some her music, watched some videos on youtube and printed some...
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enter the oil pastels In every painting I do, there is a process of conception, initial implementation (or preliminary sketch), destruction, reconstruction, destruction (this particular cycle is...
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starting to take shape why i will never be a hand model. surprisingly clean for what she and i just went through i'm fascinated by how she held her scarves. it seems like she clutched onto them for...
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is she crying? am i? i paint her and she paints me hold on tight no one can touch you
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a little work on the scarf a little finger work. when i looked more closely at the photograph i'm using, i realized that her fingers were all wrong: left thumb was actually right hand index finger time...
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i loved her draped like that. but now she's gone Last Friday I had some friends over to see Um Kulthum. This was very important to me because I felt that people had to see her in real life before she...
View ArticleHomes: Hanan Algharabally & Tareq Alkandari
um kulthum presides over tareq and hanan's lounge. to her left is a lovely pot of orchids to um kulthum's right is a painting by tareq titled 'inside out'. tareq and hanan have a very structured and...
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