Thursday, 18 November 2010
Qureshi's Grove
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Food Street, Lahore
The night life scene in Lahore's food street is fascinating and I have tried to capture it a number of times, this offering done with more rapid brush strokes and completed in a couple of hours. Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Monday, 7 June 2010
Tent Peggers: Calm Before the Storm
Tent-pegging is an old equestrian sport, which started out when horsemen of an attacking army will send its best men to remove the pegs of the enemy's tents while they're sleeping.Today, tent pegging is practised around the world, but is especially popular in Australia, India, Israel, Oman, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The Olympic Council of Asia included tent pegging as an official sport in 1982, and the International Federation for Equestrian Sports recognised it as an official equestrian discipline in 2004. From the results of the 2008 International Tent Pegging Championships, the world's three leading national teams are currently Canada, India, and Oman. Monday, 17 May 2010
Qureshi's High...
The first painting by J. M. W. Turner shows the High (High Street, Oxford) in 1809–10, with University College on the left, the Warden’s house of All Souls College on the right, and Carfax in the distance.
On the left (beyond the boys picking up spilt oranges) are workmen pulling down Deep Hall, where the scientist Robert Boyle lived between 1655 and 1668: a plaque on the western side of University College marks the site. The original painting was commissioned by James Wyatt, with a view to having it engraved so that he could sell it as a print at his shop at 115 High Street. The original painting is now part of the Loyd Collection and is on long-term loan to the Ashmolean Museum.
On the left (beyond the boys picking up spilt oranges) are workmen pulling down Deep Hall, where the scientist Robert Boyle lived between 1655 and 1668: a plaque on the western side of University College marks the site. The original painting was commissioned by James Wyatt, with a view to having it engraved so that he could sell it as a print at his shop at 115 High Street. The original painting is now part of the Loyd Collection and is on long-term loan to the Ashmolean Museum.
The second painting is same spot where Turner made his painting, 200 years later. If you look at the right side of the painting you can see that Turner straightened and widened the High Street to allow for a longer view. The tree on the right side of the scene is smaller but is pushed on the right side in Turner's painting due to straightening of the curve. The curve outside the All Souls College is actually sharper as accurately shown in my painting.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Calligraphy
Quranic Calligraphy: Bismillah seen through a panel of parallel glass sheets resulting in whole text appear broken and disjointed and yet readable.
Calligraphy
Quranic Calligraphy:
Surat al Fatiha from Al-Quran. Written in the style of famous Pakistani artist, Sadequain. I had a pleasure to work with him for three years during my medical school years.
Bridge of Sighs (Hertford Bridge) Oxford
The Hertford Bridge, also known as
The Bridge of Sighs in Oxford.
A Walk in The Forest
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A Walk in the Forest: View of a dark passage through a park approaching light shining through trees..somewhere in USA.
Calligraphy
Abstract Quranic calligraphy: Bismillah (In the name of Allah, the most beneficiant and most merciful)
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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