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I’m a digital artist born in Cairo, Egypt 1976 to a family of artists. I have a BA as well as a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. Now I’m preparing for my PhD in Fine Arts and my desertion is about Fractal and New Media Digital Arts. |
| About the Artist | |
I usually work fast; I mean my greatest peaces are always the ones that I don’t take time creating. I guess it’s because the idea or mood I want to express is so clear to me, and my feelings are so vivid, that I don’t really need time to put them all together in some tangible form, which is usually a painting. |
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No Escape
2006 |
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| This painting is from a new gallery I’ve been working on recently I gave it the title “Soul Searching”. The painting might seem a bit gloomy especially with a title like “No Escape”, but the dominant colors of white and red may actually suggest otherwise. Maybe it’s my way of saying: though there might seem to be no escape but there is always a hope of one!
I used my digital camera to take various snapshots of myself, my hand and other things as well. I then used those photos with the help of Photoshop CS and made this digital collage painting. I also used a graphic tablet which made it easy to manipulate my canvas, paint freely and use my handwriting. |
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Sinai
2005 |
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| Sinai, one of the most beautiful places on this earth. This painting represents sunset on one of the beaches on the Red Sea in Sinai. As you can see colors is a passion of mine. I like to use them, play with them and make them apparent in almost all my works. Although blue is a cold color I feel in this painting that it not only captures our eyes, but it also captures our imagination. The power of its presence is equalized though by the hot orange and yellow of the palm trees. In short colors are the heroes of this painting...
I used Adobe Photoshop CS to do this painting. The painting was done by various steps of image manipulation, as well as painting with Photoshop brushes using a graphic tablet to paint freely. I also used KPT effects. The original size of the painting is 45 x 34 cm. it’s one of a series of paintings I’m working on right now for an exhibition I’m planning for. The theme of the Exhibition is as you can by now figure out, is “Egypt”.
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The Dark Half
2005 |
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| I took Some photos of my sister against the light and i manipulated them later on my pc, i liked the whole silhouette thing, it holds a bit of a mystery.
I called this painting “The Dark Half”, I guess I was inspired by a movie I saw days before with the same title. But come to think of it, I do believe that we all have our own dark selves, and we either tame them, or keep them hidden. But in some cases this dark half sort of takes over and nothing remains but evil!
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Wellpower
2004 |
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| "I guess it doesn't really matter about the rain" ..
"'Cos we'll get through it anyway" ..
"We'll get up and start again" ..
"'Cos we could be Lifted,
We could be lifted from the shadows" ..
"We could be Lifted up today, lifted all the way" ...
I could not find more suitable words to describe what I wanted to express in this painting than the words of Lighthouse Family’s “lifted”.I used Painter and Photoshop to make this painting.
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Black Flower
2005 |
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| What is the message that a black flower conveys?!
In my paintings I like sometimes to leave a question unanswered, in this painting this is my question and only you have the answer to it.
this painting is a mix between both traditional and digital painting the end result is a printed digital painting. I like so much the way the colors sort of splash freely on paper showing a rough textured surface.
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Ghosts
2006 |
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| This painting is another one of my paintings in the new gallery I’m working on right now titled “Soul Searching”.
I call this painting “Ghosts” because I believe that all of us have ghosts in our closets; people, things or events that hunt us and keep us awake all night thinking and rethinking our lives. What we did and what we shouldn’t have done. This painting is a sort of a representation of the past that just won’t open the door for the future!
This is a digital collage painting that made use of different digital images some of which I took myself with my digital camera. The painting was finalized using Photoshop CS.
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Village Festivities
2004 |
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| I call this painting “Festivities of the village”, it represents a happy atmosphere in a small village in Egypt, it could be someone's daughter wadding, or someone's son getting his collage degree, it doesn’t really matter because in any case you’ll find that all the people of the village are invited and that everyone has something to offer to his neighbor and believe me that really do happen in some small Egyptian villages to this date...
What I love about the painting is its freedom in exploring the medium; free lines, free brush-work and free colors. The theme of the painting is a rural landscape, one that you can find in the rural areas of Egypt. Houses staked one next to the other, paint-colors on the walls and motifs that people sometimes decorate their houses with. You can find that as well in some urban areas in Cairo where I live. I like this theme very much, and you’ll find it in a lot of my paintings, digital or non-digital...
I participated with this painting in the Festival of “Creative Egyptian Women”, October 2004. The festival is an annual celebration of creative women in Egypt in the fields of Fine Arts, Music, poetry.. etc.
I used Adobe Photoshop 7 and Painter 7 to create this scene. I used a lot of brushes in Photoshop and Painter, sort of playing around exploring their capabilities, until this scene came out in the end. |
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Sunflowers
2002 |
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| I like to paint flowers they’re cheerful, and full of color. Texture and color are both sort of a fantasy of mine, I always try to bring them both to the spot light whenever I can in my paintings.. I like the free brush strokes in the background and the way the watery colors look on the surface.. I used Painter 7 to do this painting.
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| Education and biography | |
| After my graduation from the faculty of fine arts 1999 I began to take different courses and postgraduate studies. I conceder those postgraduate studies, specially my diploma in IT, to be of great importance in shaping me as a digital artist and in opining my eyes and mind to a whole new world of new things I knew almost nothing about; like philosophy, which I got a huge passion for, psychology, native arts and art history as well as, of course, a huge deal of knowledge about computers which enables me to work with them in my digital works much better and with awareness. Education: Jan. 2003/ Jul. 2005: Master degree in Fine Arts. 2001/2002: Diploma in Information Technology specialization Multimedia. 2000/2001: MA Introductory Course – Faculty of Fine Arts – “Very Good” Top of my class. 1999/2000: Diploma in Education from the Faculty of Education. 1994/1999: Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from the faculty of Fine Arts. Courses: Among the many courses I attended are courses in : Advanced Translation into both Arabic and English Computer Maintenance Programming Web development and design Graphic design Multimedia development Problem Solving Techniques Presentation skills Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Graphical User Interface (GUI) Concepts & Interface Design. Mathematics Exhibitions: Listed digital artist at the Museum of computer Arts – MOCA. From Nov. 1 to Nov. 30, 2004 “The 7th Annual Salon of Small Art Works”, Ministry of Culture, Sector of Fine Arts. The exhibition was held in Zamalek Art Center Cairo, Egypt. From Oct.13 to Nov.2, 2004 Creative Egyptian Women Festival – 128 female artist participants – organized by the Ministry of Culture – El-Jazeera Art Center – Cairo, Egypt. From May 15 to Jun.17, 2004 El Tala'ae annual Exhibition organized by "lovers of fine art society" – Garden City Cairo, Egypt. From Sep.6 to Sep.12, 2003 Participating with my Art works in "The Stars of Creation Festival" organized by the Channel of Culture – one of the TVs satellite channels – the festival was held on the River Nile Bank in front of the Egyptian Radio And Television Union building in Maspero . 2002 A group exhibition titled (First Step) accompanying the 34th Cairo International Book fair. Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. 2001 – until today Participating with my Art works in a lot of Exhibits and Festivals with (SIS) state Information service – Ministry of Information where I Work. Like the Cairo International Annual Book fair – Children's Annual Festivals – 6th Of October and 23rd of July Festivals - and all other National Festivals and Exhibits. 2000 “The 4th Annual Salon of Small Art Works”, Ministry of Culture, Sector of Fine Arts, held in Zamalek Art Center Cairo, Egypt. 1999 The exhibition of the Egyptian Higher Council of Youth and Sports and won an encouragement award. 1999 Helwan University's Annual Exhibition, and won the second prize. 1999 Exhibition of the Faculties 1st Graduates - Faculty of Fine Arts - Helwan University Cairo, Egypt. 1995 /1999 Faculty of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition for students – Helwan University Cairo, Egypt. |
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| Future shows | |
| As I took the road of digital fine arts I plan to continue on to find more and more about this field. In my PhD I am exploring the world of Fractals and New Media digital arts. My study enables me to find out more about those controversial contemporary art forms, as well as producing more, and hopefully good, digital art works of my own. |
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