Zainab's Art Adventures

I did this water colour painting back in March.

I did this panting a few days ago.I didn't mean to paint this, I planned to write the quote"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence"(Vince Lombardi). I had only painted the background and written the word 'Perfection' on it with grey when I decided that it looked awful, and so I scratched it away with the back of my paintbrush. This scratched patch of grey paint became the first building in the painting.  I added a few cars and more buildings, scratching away doors and windows. I decided that the sun should not be grey like the buildings, because buildings are made by man, and the sun is not, so I painted the sun white. I think white is a color that portrays purity-compared to grey-and so the painting shows a contrast between things created by man and things created by God. Also,the white sun creates an impression of extreme heat-which is caused by global warming; a result of the increasing urbanization. City Life: ...

Last Saturday, my younger brother was busy working on the laptop. He was too busy to notice his surroundings, and so, taking advantage of this, I secretly did a sketch of him(after the initial sketch, I decided to paint over it with water colours, but the effect was so horrible that I destroyed the painting. But I'm glad I've got a good photograph of the sketch!) 'Poor posture' I altered the brightness and contrast to make the pencil strokes more visible

I started this painting around two months back. There was a canvas on which my brother had started painting something with black-I don't remember what exactly-but he hadn't finished it(and did not intend to do that in the future, either). I asked him if he wanted to complete the painting,and he said no, so I took the canvas from him. Then I sketched this mosque on it, and the next day I painted the background with black oil paint, and filled in the little windows with black marker. I decided that I would paint the mosque in white, but, sadly, I had run out of white oil paint, and so I had to wait until our next trip to an art store... This is what it looked like then...  I forgot to buy the paint when we went shopping for art supplies next time, and so I had to wait until our next trip to the art store. This time when I asked for white oil paint, they said it was out of stock! I had almost given up hope when I saw a tube of silver oil paint. I decided to paint the mosque...

Watercolour on paper

I made this poster(which I have pinned up on the soft board facing my desk) to encourage myself. It was almost done, when I decided to give it a shiny effect by putting some glossy eye shadow on it. The effect was horrible! However, I managed to correct it by erasing it. It looks OK, I suppose. But it looked better before the eye shadow episode! XD

I began painting this canvas back in August but it wasn't until late September that I finished it. Actually, I spoiled it(I didn't mean to, of course). Let me tell you how I mended it. What I used: Purified linseed oil, Oil paints, cotton buds, and paint brushes First I painted a beige background(I don't know why it doesn't look beige in the picture), then I made this deep maroon dot in the center of the canvas, and surrounded it by  these maroon dots(I made the dots with the cotton buds) Then I surrounded the maroon dots with a circle of red dots. I skipped a layer right here: now for the orange dots The circle expands,more and more... AND THEN............ A DISASTER happened!!! The canvas got spoiled somehow... ...actually one of the dots smeared, and I was just correcting it when the paint smeared more and more and in the end it looked so unbearable...I had no idea what to do!!!! apologies for not having a picture....

I made this A-shaped Pendant for a friend(her name begins with A(as you might have guessed, it is Abiha XD)). I made the letter 'A' out of air-dry clay. I made a ball and then smashed it into a slab, from which I cut out the letter A using a steel ruler and a pin. After it had dried, I painted it Magenta (using acrylics mixed with white glue for increased brightness and a pinch of silver dust for a soft shine).  I left the paint overnight to dry and in the morning I decorated it with nail polish(gold and pink)(which, as a matter of fact, has become one of my favorite mediums XD).  The nail polish applicator was too thick a size, so I dipped my size 01 paintbrush(a most useful size, I must say) into the nail polish and added the gold stripes with it.(I had to clean it afterwards with nail-polish remover, and it did dissolve, except that it left a slight shine and stiffness in the brush). Then I found a thread, tied the 'A' and added some dark and light pink be...

I made this poster not very long ago. It didn't turn out exactly the way I expected it to, but I guess the typography's OK and the hatching(the computer chair and the man's suit) is not bad. Ta-da!  I made this sketch of Minar-e-Pakistan(one of Pakistan's famous historical landmarks) recently(using a reference, of course). It's really good, except for a fact that my silly little seven-year-old cousin put green pen marks in two places. D: and I had to get this one FRAMED!!!

This is a mix-media pot. I used clay, water, poster paints, acrylic paints, white glue, UHU, gold nail polish(and its remover) in the making of this pot. Can you guess how????