Fruits

Years ago I had started a painting with a pineapple, and an orange, and while I completed these two elements, I never got around to finishing it. Until recently. 

It had been sitting in my basement/studio for a while, until I finally dug it out and decided to finish it. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I wanted to keep the fruit the focus of the painting, so I swirled the paint in light, blue/green colors. 

This is how the completed painting turned out. It's done with acrylic paints on a 12x24 canvas. 

'Alhamdulillah'

Thanks Be to Allah

I've recently gotten back into painting fruits and slightly abstract still life paintings. I'm currently working on a new one for one of my oldest friends, Kate. She wants a Tryptic (3-panelled) painting for her kitchen in her apartment. So that's my newest project. Check back for the completed painting soon!

2011-2012 Calendar

Every Ramadan, I like to give myself a project to do. It helps to pass the time while doing something productive, and keeps my happy, lack of food tends to make me a little cranky. So in Ramadan of 2011 I had the idea to make a calendar of designs: the first use of my amazing markers for calligraphy. I did most of the designs on plain paper and then pasted it onto colored cardstock. (8 1/2 x 11 inches)

This Calendar, I also started to experiment with my own calligraphy designs, conforming the arabic letters into different shapes, making them abstract, etc. 

Cover
(Bismillah)

Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Raheem

In the Name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful

Allahu

The Name of God

Allahu Akbar

God is Great

Alhamdulillah

Thanks be to Allah

Subhanallah

Glory be to Allah

La Illaha Ill Allah Muhammad Rasool Allah

There is no God but Allah, and Muhammed is the Messenger of Allah

La Hawla Wala Quwwata Illa Billa Hil Aliyul Azheem

All Power and Might Belongs to Allah, the Most High, The Great

Al Fatiha

The Opening 

The first chapter in the Holy Qur'aan

Ayatul Kursi

Al Baqarah 

2:255

Surah Al-Isra

The Night Journey

17:24

In the Name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful

Lower the wing of humility to them [parents] out of mercy, and say

 "My Lord! Have Mercy on them, just as they reared me when I was a small child.