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Hi guys
I had some ideas for this week's assignment, but instead I will give everyone a break. You choose your own idea and your own direction. Goal is to produce one piece of artwork of your own choice by next Tuesday night. Gentlemen, enjoy and have fun @ Color Doodle Dump

Spinning The dreams Of Oneness by Alex

This was such a little journey of painting exploration. I had an image in mind, and focues on the persian miniature style, specially I was influenced by the master pieces of Alijanpour. I remebered watching these dancers, and feeling their flowing rythems, I was also watching video clips of sufi dancers for the reference, and could not do a static painting while looking at those swirling dreamers. So, I continued swirling with them. My brush was swirling constantly, in circles like the dancers, only stopping to reload my brush. The result was a surprise, as was the feeling while I was painting. I was high, but not on drugs, or drink.  perhaps this is close to their goal also. Originaly, I was planning to have flowers as motifs in background, going with a typical pattern in Persian miniature style, but the brush swirls seemed so natural that I kept on that path. Also, this is literaly a miniature, the didgital image here is twice the size of the original oil. Like Dado, I also tried to blend old style and inovate it in a new way. I hope its pleasing, @ colordoodledump.

Persian Rug

This is not per say an original Persian manuscript design. But since we are in 2008, I tried to confuse the natives, as ol' Rick would tell us to do. Love that Persian design in their rugs, pure fractal bonanza. Cheers and have fun at Color Doodle Dump!

Metalic Life by Alex

Ok, so this is more of a feel of metal with natural elements then any representation of anything. its play with brushes in painter. Its not where I was thinking of going with this project, I had something representational in mind, with some detail and such. But as I was warming up, I got this neet little mix, and just ket hacking at it. Who would have thought, ,,, modern art. from a representational artists. But it felt good to work on it, and I think it has the feel of metal, and organic mix.

the new assinment

hey guys ,wats up ,so alex is telling me that its my turn to choose a subject ,,so the first thing that poped into my mind was persian painting style
from where i come from [egypt] middle eastern civilization we r so fond of line work, calligrafy patterns,harmony of lines,the very wierd prespective,colors
for those who dono anything about persian style [i hope u do]
its style that has been created by persians nd the arabs it came to its peek during the 16th ,17th century ,nd when the turks invaded india during the 15th centry ,they took the arabic style to india where the style have been shifted by time to become another unique indian style of own,nd for those who dono also rembrant nd rubens nd most of the famous painters of the 15century and rococo period used to copy sketches from the persian style to learn from it ,tni
so for the reference ,here u r some links i hope it would be useful for u,[in ur surfing use manuscript persian painting or just perisan paitning]


[[[[nd the subject of the painting its up to u guys to decide after u see some ref]]]]
from google u would find many exaples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGro4iYQYW8 [this is a v good ref]
http://images.google.com.eg/images?hl=en&q=persian+painting&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

http://www.persianpaintings.com/miniat2.html
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/paintings/Persian/

good luck nd have fun

Cornstalk

I don't know... Is this a right choice for this assignment? You got artificial light, perhaps aliens beaming up a body... Ok, I will put more effort next time! I have done this on my DS using COLORS program.
Cheers guys and have fun at Color Doodle Dump!!!!

sketch

Sorry for upload late. anyway, this one of my quick sketch.