Stripe, the little sparrow.

Today has been all about rescuing a little sparrow. I don't know if it will live to see tomorrow. We have it under an...

Posted by Azra Momin on Thursday, January 21, 2016

Rumi in blue

Giveaway at the http://creativemuslimwomen.com/ website, coming soon!#creativemuslimwomen #giveaway #art #artprint #rumi

Posted by Azra Momin on Monday, July 13, 2015

Adding some of my painting samples...

Color :) (And sometimes not).

Posted by Azra Momin on Sunday, May 11, 2014

The cat lady...or a lady cat?

Sample illustration...

that took a life of its own.

I couldn't resist adding the black-and-white rug :)

This drawing was entirely digital.

Anatomy of Bliss - three ways

Painting in Photoshop. You know why it's so cool?

In a few small clicks...

you have a new mood.

This was done pretty intuitively, and in one go.

I didn't draw it out, or plan it to go any which way.

The part I like best about painting

(either with 'real' paints, or digitally)

is that the work takes on its own life and direction.

After that, it's only a matter of facilitating it,

and letting it manifest itself.

I could have gone on painting it,

but I stopped, and just changed the backgrounds.

In the end, I don't have a favorite - do you?

Magnolia

This is one of those journey vs. destination things.

I've always been a journey person.

The destination is important, of course,

but the road not taken, ah, the charms of that.

This painting began at one place and ended up

somewhere altogether unexpected.

There were magnolias lurking in my mind's eye

(Magnolia season is just ending here,

which always flusters me a bit.  Will I see them again next year?

Will I ever look at them long enough to satisfy me?)

I was thinking about art and healing.

I was thinking black and white.

And yet the picture was something else before.

And now it's like this.

And that's all good :)