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...

I made this tiny chair out of twigs which I collected from a park. I used glue and thread to bind it together. Right now its sort of fallen apart(actually I don't even know where exactly it is at the moment!) I want to make a photo frame out of twigs except that I don't have any long twigs! D:

Hello, bloggers! It's good to be back again. (My papers are not over, but the English ones are. I'm sure I'll pass with a B. Or perhaps a C. Or D. Or E. You never know...) OK, so this is a table I built with my younger brother, Ibraheem . It took a couple of days to make(but Ibraheem keeps 'mending' it, so you can guess it has lots of faults. However, the legs are the real problem. They keep swaying and sometimes come off loose :/) Anyways, it's not so bad. I still kind of like its design. The top was originally my idea, with gaps between little planks of wood. And we both came up with the idea for the leg's structure.  However, I'm glad that despite the many conflicts, the table is not so bad ;P 

Just sneaked( sneaked. really!!!! ) out some time to post this. This was a picture I took at a visit to Frere Hall(I took this quite a long time ago, possibly a month ago...), which is one of Karachi's well-known landmarks(on the upper floor is Sadequain gallery, an art gallery displaying Sadequain's unique and bold paintings.) A lovely place...but, sadly, is almost-shattered-thanks to the extremely (in)efficient Karachi government... 

This time when we went to the park in our locality, I decided to take a few photographs. So I took some of the plants and flowers I really liked. Btw, I searched so desperately for a china rose (hibiscus rosea) in full bloom but failed to find any. I so love those. Sunset Rose A bunch of lovely pinks A plant in a flowerpot. I was intrigued by this one because of the size and shape of its leaves. However the picture doesn't focus that well. click on it for a better view. Anyways, Happy -belated-spring!

A little poster! I love it, it's so cute! I began with drawing a slanted pen(It's a black (Dollar) pointer, my favorite pen for drawing and writing(Btw, The outlook of the pen has changed recently, it's body is now black and the cap is silver, I couldn't do that).  After that I drew a stick figure balanced on the pen. I added details, drew on the clothes. Then I drew the bubble on top. I couldn't decide on what to draw, first I drew some random doodles on it, but that looked a bit weird.  I decided to write the word 'ideas' in it, because ideas are the root of all drawings. It seemed weird then but with the awesome typography and the sparkly stars it looked unusually good.(It's just that the letter 'S' was yellow so it blended too much with the stars. It would have looked better with green). I coloured everything in and then wrote the quote I just made up. XD  I wrote my name with purple because it's my favorite color. It looks great,...