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Badar

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My question is that how is it possible to draw as shown in the below images. In image 1, is that foam in dark green color with patterns, that is attached to the canvas? and in the middle of that how can we make that? and in image 2, I think for the center thing, stencil is used but which type of paint has been used to show it like this (texture that is out of the surface) and same for its boundary also.

Sylvia Evans

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Hi Learner . Looking at both of your pictures I would suggest that both are solid materials. The first one is metal and the second looks like ceramic. Not painted onto canvas at all. Did you take the pics? Or are they something you have found in a book or on line ?.

Derek Snowdon

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I'm with Syd on this. Good luck with your efforts
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I don't understand the question - ARE those images? Or are they not solid objects - and where did you get the idea that the green cartouche is foam stuck onto canvas? As to how you could draw them, well - the same way you'd draw anything else: by studying it and practising it. If you're asking how to paint these images, you could do it with oil or acrylic if you were extremely competent and prepared to spend a long time doing it: but you ask what sort of paint was used - it isn't at all obvious that these are painted objects at all, and we're not seeing them in context. More information is required. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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Linda Wilson

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I think the dark patterned bit could be expanded polystyrene (foam) carved into shape. The arabic calligraphy bit (verdigris metal?) is stuck on top of that. The other photo definite looks like a tessellation of bathroom tiles - so ceramic.

Ruth Dolan

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Red Herring?

Ruth Dolan

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sanamasim..to re-create muslim art forms is really not the purpose of this POL site, for learners, or otherwise. One of the things it exists to do is to encourage all painters, young and old, to develop, to experiment, and in so doing to express their own individual feelings about everything created under the sun. I am sure there are many beautiful patterns in the mosques, but my garden is also filled with the most amazing patterns and beauty, and that is one of the places where I often take inspiration from. Islamic art involves so much complicated design and is, I feel, restrictive to Western creativity, although often beautiful in its formality of geometric design.

David Perry

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Since the Koran seems to ban the reproduction of the image of anything in creation I argue it is restrictive to all creativity. But by the by, a Clupeidae rouge for sure! D
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Hang on there a minute - Islam has a long tradition of promoting the sciences, and the arts - from its fabulous calligraphy to the beautiful binding of books: it does have its restrictions, but they're more than made up for by the richness of its traditions. We're seeing a grim manifestation of fanaticism in the world at the moment for various reasons, and some are using Islam as the excuse for what is actually a madiaeval savagery that spurns Arabic culture and all it offered to mathematics, astronomy, architecture, just as Nazism tried to reverse the Enlightenment - but creativity was embedded in the middle-East as well as the destructiveness and cruelty which are sadly just as typical of other parts of the world with very different religions. All sanamasim was doing was explaining the derivation of the objects/work shown in the original post, and how study of it might be furthered. So far as I'm concerned, Islamic art should be as welcome here as any other kind - he's not trying to impose it on us, but to inform. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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Linda Wilson

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I agree with Robert, we should welcome art from other cultures. One of the few things I liked about my art college course, was a project about nature in Islamic art. Waldemar Janu.....also presented a very interesting TV series which covered the topic. There are wonderful examples of Islamic art in India, e.g. Taj Mahal which is inlaid with flowers and calligraphy. I understand that Islamic art is fetching big prices in the auction houses. I got particularly interested in Zoomorphic art, where the letters are presented in the shape of an animal or bird - wonderfully creative and skilful work. I even found the letters for "tiger" and designed my own, which I will endeavour to post.
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Linda Wilson

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I took it that the person who posted it couldn't write English very well and did n't mean draw, but reproduce it. Any how here is my zoomorphic calligraphy. I got google to translate "Tiger" into Arabic it into the shape of a leaping tiger and then laser cut it into acrylic. And here is the result - I hope.