Local Artist Contemplates the Arab Spring

June 22, 2012

Portland Phoenix, review by Nicolas Schroeder, June 22, 2012.

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This old tower was once a lookout connected to a mill that was powered by the stream that runs in this valley. Lucky to live so nearby the bosco (forest) di San Francesco, which is a protected natural area just outside of the Assisi walls.

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Sunday walk in the bosco di San Francesco. Visiting the location where we are excited to participate next weekend in the "giorno delle api" with our honey watercolors! #bees #savethebees #watercolors #nature

Working on a collection of natural pigments inspired by manuscript paintings for artist @ducrotisabella including genuine #indigo and earth #pigments from #cyprus #italy #morocco and #france It is a joy to handpick these special pigments for an artist I love!

We've been working day and night on these! Excited to debut the new tiny pocket palettes. These vibrant warm and cool primary colours have been studied to give a maximum mixing range in the smallest package! The set weighs in at only 50 grams, perfect for any pocket or purse, and each color is magnetized so they stay put when you paint with them and don't rattle around while you're travelling.The top of the tin is a mixing surface. They are 35€ in our shop link in bio.
We are working on a second mini palette of special Italian earth pigments. Coming soon🤓
Handmade marbled paper by @giulio_giannini_e_figlio /
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Our professional napper #catsofistanbul #catsofinstagram #catnap

Sometimes you find yourself in a field of glowing poppies... We saw this field from the car after going to the post office and had to pull over. In the mail was a beautiful letter and painting made with our colours by @michel.droge. Michel uses ancient navigational tools like star charts and polynesian stick maps to represent the attempt of the human spirit to find its place in space and time. It was pure magic that the painting she sent me appeared to be a map of exactly where I was just after I picked up her letter! #serendipity #beauty #umbria #italy #spring #friendship

A springtime stroll in Rome just wouldnt be complete without finding a basket of artichokes on the sidewalk! #carciofi #roma #primavera #springtime

A wonderful surprise came in the mail! This beautiful watercolor painting of forsythia flowers by Laura Zeidenstein made with our colors. Grazie! #handmade #watercolor #watercolorpainting #spring

View from above and view from below ☀️ #terzoparadiso

Miniature Paintings

ISIS Loots at Nimrud, 2016

egg tempera on panel

20 x 13 cm

SOLD

Militants Play in the US Embassy Pool, Tripoli

egg tempera on panel, 2015

18 x 10.5 cm, color study

final work on panel, SOLD

Migrant Shipwreck off Lampedusa, Mediterranean Sea

egg tempera on panel, 2015

10 x 15.25 cm

SOLD

Gezi: Protests on Istiklal, Istanbul

egg tempera on panel, 2015

18 x 10.5 cm, SOLD

Al-Ghouta Chemical Attack, Syria

egg tempera on panel, 2015

18 x 10.5 cm, SOLD

Keleti Station @ Real Art Ways

February 21 - June 30, 2016

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"Sara Dreams Aleppo," Watercolors

Original watercolors, 100% of sales donated to Small Projects Istanbul - for Syria. Contact me to purchase.

Sara Dreams Aleppo 2

Sara: "I have a dream that is amazing. I was walking in he street, and there is an army and I was trapped from behind. I was blocked on both sides."

Sara Dreams Aleppo 3

Sara: "I am sacred of dreams. I am walking in a house, and then some snipers stand in a circle around me. And then, they shoot me! One of them shoots me here, one shoots me here, and one shoots me here."

Sara Dreams Aleppo 1

Sara: "There are lots of dreams, nice dreams. There's one where I was riding a horse. I'm running and I am happy. It's really clean... There are flowers, people come and start singing."

An ongoing series of water colors based on the dreams of a young girl, Sara, who is five years old and lives on one of the front-lines in Aleppo with her mom, two older sisters and one older brother. Her father is a commander in the free Syrian army. She was inter-viewed in the documentary Children of Aleppo for PBS in February 2014.