Florida and NY Juried Show - my awards winning

 In 2009 I entered a show in West Palm Beach with two of my oils  paintings one is "Oranges market", and the other one is" Contemplation" for which the jury gave me an award mention honnor . ..
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In January 2011 , in the studend exhibition at the Art student league of NY , I got a blue dot for my oil painting -study of a portrait , a award winning mention honnor ...

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Little pond - Pastel




Little Pond
Soft Pastel

  Soft pastel on gray canson paper ..
I did this little painting in Raleigh,NC in year 2006 . My skills were not as good as now , there is few mistakes in this painting like the reflected light on the stones .... I did not correct any thing, I just wanted to look back and see how much I improved since then in depecting lights...

 ...In the back yard of my brother's house there is this Little water pond ....the gentle fall of the water between the stones attracted my emotions .....I tried to convey the peaceful and charming atmosphere where I use to sit to have my coffee every morning enchanted by the sound and the view of this little pond of  the running water with amazing reflection of light ....

My video Channel on youtube /Link

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This is the Link to my channel on Youtube where you can see videos that I created . Please check out my link and enjoy watching my art work .

Joseph the model - oil painting

Joseph the model, oil painting on canvas .

I just finished working on this painting ....Joseph is a great model ..It took several long hours and days  to achieve this painting ...I think it was the most long process that i followed to capture the emotion and the atmosphere ....the loneliness...the sitting still of the model against this calm blue background..When I started this painting, I was not sure how it is going to end up,.It is my first painting of a full figure with that size of canvas .  

Hooka painting process on wood panel

  The inspiration of this painting  came from my nostalgie to my country....Sharazad goes west ....and evoking memories of the music and dance ...I paint this subject with a lot of emotions...Now the hooka  cafe is very Popular in USA....
I had to borrow the Fez and the musical instrument to make the set up ....

Portraits I have done recently

Painting portrait form life models become my passion...To depict the emotion on the faces and to paint a likeness of the model is a struggle and strive but when achieved , it is  a satisfaction ....



My daughter and my Grand-daughter .
This painting was done on early 2010



Portraits- Oil Paintings ...

A drawing process with charcoal vine and pencil

Drawing with charcoal on toned paper

Drawing with charcoal

RED ROCKS- SEDONA-AZ

My cactus ....the process

Oil Painting -





I did this painting in Jerome , Arizone ...The cactus plant was by the entrance of the building where we had the studio .  I got very inspired ...this was the first painting that I acheived in Arizona before I started  to do the landscape there which was really beautiful to paint and to capture the light and sun of the desert .

RED ROCKS -SEDONA-AZ

The painting  is the Red Rock ....I like those red rocks, they are majestic ...

sculpture - seated girl

still life vase and mandarines

 Still life- Vase with mandarines and grapes .Oil painting on linen canvas  - size: 16"x 20" - ready to be framed to enter a show and ready for sale ...

just finished this painting few days ago. I hope you like it . Usually I spend more time in painting portrait and human figure , but also I enjoy to set up for a stil life  painting in the studio .

HOOKA PAINTING PROCESS (ON WOOD PANEL)

DRAWING PROCESS . - CHARCOAL ON PAPER

HOOKA PAINTING PROCESS ON WOOD PANEL (UNFINISHED)

http://www.youtube.com/user/femmeartistmuse?feature=mhsn#p/u/2/LUl4noZ_XNM

THIS A VIDEO SHOWING THE PROCESS I FOLLOWED TO PAINT ON WOOD PANEL .I FIRST PUT  A LAYER OF WHITE GESSO AND I DID DRAW OVER IT AND THAN I PAINTED . THE PART OF WOOD LEFT WITHOUT PAINTING IS GOING TO BE STAINED WITH A THIN WARM LAYER .....YOU CAN SEE THE SET -UP OF THE OBJECTS. I WORKED FROM LIFE ...I LIKE TO EXPERIEMENT WORKING ON WOOD WITH GESSO , IT IS KIND OF FUN ...I USED THE TECHNIQUE OF UNDERPAINTING WITH BURNT UMBER ....I WILL POST THE FINISHED PICTURE OF THE WORK SOON. I HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY WATCHING THE VIDEO AND LISTNING TO THE SONG ......

Oil Painting: winter by the river

I love this painting and the reflection of the sky on the water . I made this painting from a photo that I took during a trip to the river in Cottonwood , Arizona...Plein air painting is more desirable to me, but sometime I do work at the Sudio with a photo reference ...

Sculpting- clay modeling









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   I am working in a sculpture - a girl seated on the floor - I am posting some photos of the process ....sculpting and modeling are very tactile ...one can feel the emotion in modeling a human body ...we are made from clay ...with a spirit ..so in working on my piece , I am really concentrating in the process to create my little" master piece "...Rodin and Camille Claudel expressed their feeling and emotions with a tons of work...they are superb...I visit often the museum of RODIN in Philadelphia ...wow ...I spent hours looking at one piece and I don't get enough....