Zainab's Art Adventures

Just recently we bought some (more) potter's clay. I made this pot with the clay. It was great fun playing with the clay. :P Thankfully, I didn't use any water(except a few drops I used to smooth it in the end) and so it didn't crack after drying.  The unpainted pot All done

I made these bookmarks lately. Made this 'quote' up myself. I do that all the time. A lovely quote... On the backside of bookmarks I make I write my blog addresses. It helps to advertise for them(it's quite another thing that most people keep the bookmark and ignore my humble request to visit the blogs).

I recently made this brightly-colored wall hanging from colorful beads. For the hanging, I made some square beads from white air-dry clay which I painted with dark pink and orange acrylic paints. Homemade beads Then I used some multicolored embroidery thread and some other beads to create this wall hanging. Close-up

Just recently, we attended a three-day workshop on Photography. It was wonderful, and we learnt a lot of principles and elements of good photographs, eg. catchlights(in portraits), rule of thirds, etc. Here I am sharing (some) of the shots-good ones- which I took for the workshop. Most of them I took for home assignments. We had to take a depth and perspective shot. I decided to do something totally unique: I went on top of these slides and took a picture from there. I wasn't sure how it would turn out but it looks, well, nice. We also had to take a night shot. I captured these lamps against the night sky. I really like this one. A turkey. (We had to take two-rule-of-thirds-shots and the head of the turkey(which was my main focus) is off-center.) I found its head and beak really interesting, so I decided to capture those. (It was kinda difficult, because the bird wouldn't stay still). A lovely pink rose, in full bloom(the rule of thirds, again). A fr

Hello everyone! I'm back again. Ramadan Mubarak to you all! My (best) friend, Abiha, turned eleven the other day so I decided to share the gift and card over here(btw, I haven't given either of them to her yet, because we haven't met for quite a few days. :P Never mind. I never do  manage to keep things secret for long. XD) As I wasn't feeling particularly well(nothing, nothing, I just got a temperature)during the last week, I didn't have much time or energy to prepare a proper  present for her, so I just made an embroidered fabric bookmark. It was an experiment.  My sister was embroidering something for herself and I got pooped up just looking at her. I decided to embroider something too. I decided to make a unique embroidered bookmark. I found some brown fabric, drew a pattern on it, and then embroidered over it. The results were satisfactory, and so I sewed it at the back and washed it, and, well, it was done. It looked pretty awesome. Below is a pic