Naqqashi; back to the past.

Back to work

Back to work, its a slow process.
But i absolutely love the process, the making, the preparation.
Here’s my checklist,

1. vasli (ready)
2. burnishing (done)
3. drawing and composition (almost satisfied with it, though i have a feeling i’ll keep tweaking the curly clouds till the painting is sold)
4. qalam (ongoing)

Things yet untouched
I still have to mix the colours

My shift to London has me deprived of a few miniature essentials.
Need to go shopping for

1. Magnifying glass,
2. Black paint,
3. Art card.

Time to get back to the drill..

Recipe for disaster: Guilty pleasures, Nostalgia and Proscrastination

Recipe for disaster: Guilty pleasures, Nostalgia and Proscrastination.

Recipe for disaster: Guilty pleasures, Nostalgia and Proscrastination

So school is finally over, i feel a bit too free, and i believe i have wasted more time than i should have. But in all fairness, there hasn’t been a spare moment. I have accomplished the Herculean task of completing my website.  Now its time to make some real work.

I am missing my studio and reminiscing, i have all these fantastic, mind-blowing ideas for work larger than myself but of course my lack of studio prevents me from executing all that is in my head (Hope you didn’t miss the inflated ego there). I have a feeling my brain deliberately conjures up these large scale ideas so as to keep me extending my break from work.

Note to Brain:
I am on to you! And just so you know, i am already contemplating two new pieces.

I miss! I suppose next stop might be the London Print Studio. Sigh*

Yet to be completed

 

Anyways, Back to the ‘two new’ pieces of work now, don’t want to spend more time blogging about work than actually making work.

Vitrine installation

Last minute tweaks..

Installing, well past the cut-off hour… my very own

Installing, well past the cut-off hour…

 

my very own helping hand in the earlier days of installation.

 

Studio practice

Lead up to the final MA show, long, tiring and exhausting work hours in the studio but hopefully it will be totally worth it.

 

 

on the set- filming Needled.

Organic sculpture

The celebrity super star of needled ^

Editing, the toughest part after light set-up.

 

Unfortunately, because of bad sound this film needs to be re-shot. What an absolute battle it is to find a pomegranate in the month of May!

Digital drawings 2010

Digital drawings 2010.

Digital drawings 2010

Pomegranate

Hello all, for some research i need anything and everything you might know about pomegranates (urdu: annar). Myths, superstitions, stories, idioms, muhavaray, whatever you can provide will be much appreciated.