Murals

This is one of the many mural projects my mom and sisters do in the hospitals in Turkey, which I was able to participate for the first time and enjoyed immensely! It was in a children's cancer & leukemia ward.

I owe so much to my mom who is an amazing artist but also taught and encouraged me and my sisters to develop our artistic side and try to use it for the benefit of others, bringing what joy and happiness we can, whenever we can, through our talents to others.

The Orient in Acrylics

One subject I like painting is anything oriental. I lived in Egypt when I was small and have always remained fascinated by the orient, and have visited again as i was older.

The first acrylic painting is from a photo I took while visiting a temple in Luxor. I was impressed with their architecture and wanted to get it on canvas. The second one is actually a picture of my fiance posing as an Arab, which was fun to improvise also on the background.

Watercolors

These are some watercolors I did as gifts for friends, I like to give people something they can remember me by..

The Classics in Oil Paint

This was a project I did to learn some techniques of oil painting. It's from a famous Velazquez painting 'Venus at her mirror'.

Black & White Portraits

I love drawing with charcoal and pencil, I usually use a combination of both which works best for me. I admit I have an easier time drawing from a photo than doing live portrait, as I can relax and take my time with the shading etc, which gives me the best results.

Watercolor Travel

As I love travelling and have grown up just about everywhere, I love capturing a place on canvas as memories and even altering that picture to where sometimes I imagined it in a different way than it actually appeared. watercolors are one easy way to do this as I just bring along a set and and some paper and you can paint just about anywhere. These are from a trip we made by car years ago passing through places like Amalfi, Italy to Meteora and Kavala, Greece, to Turkey..

Acrylics & Color Blending

Speaking of color blends and acrylics, another one of my favorite colors is red, and all the shades in between. I try to portray the contrast between light and dark here by keeping the picture simple so it accentuates the colors more. The flower set was made especially for a room which has furniture in shades of red and brown, and the light source that comes from the left accentuates the light coming from the window in that corner.

Acrylics & 'Frozen in Time' series

Blue Is one of my favorite colors, and this series of acrylic paintings which I've named 'frozen in time' expresses that and the fact that I got the inspiration for them during the night, when everything seems surreal and it seems anything and everything can happen in that space of time.