These are companion pieces, so I'm showing them side by side. The piece on top is inspired by Mosque mosiac patterns. It is created using water color and pen and ink. The colorful parts of it are water color. The black lines were drawn in using pen and Ink. It is backed onto yellow and green water color.
Then the arabic calligraphy was cut out of it. It says, As Salam. Peace. In Islam there are 99 names of God. Peace, Allah, is the God of Islam, he is perfect peace itself.
The second piece is created using the cut calligraphy, backed onto water color painting. I never know if I should say painting. I mean, I do use paint, but do I actually paint with it? Rarely are there brushes involved in what I do. I take containers of paint and spill them on the page, watching as the colors blend into one another. The final product is what God might paint on my page, blending the colors together like He does a sunset, the final product more subtle and complex then human hand could ever create.
If God wills it.
