NIGHT 450 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

Nerve-wracking painting with kids – practising equanimity and calm while allowing 3.5 year old to paint on my painting!
He did a fairly good job. Painted outside the lines a little which is to be expected. I will tidy up his work but for the most part keep it. Maybe next time I’ll teach him to layer things and he can learn some skill. He was desperate to help his mama and insisted on painting ON my painting. I don’t always allow; this time I did. Better that he does it under my watch than behind my back. The thrill it gave him was immense…and it was fine in the end. And he can look back on it and point out ‘I did that part!’ Let kids paint, collaborate with kids!
In Chinese they address kids as ‘little friends’, 小朋友. I think this is what having a little friend means 🙂
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NIGHT 449 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

Using the Ether brush (large) to transfer – camera sometimes focuses on my stray hairs (from my head, not from my brushes!) – doing one-handed
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NIGHT 448 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

Last Zoom of 2020:
Mmmmmm! Join our free Monthly Miniature Meeting on 15.12.20, 6-7pm GMT
Link in bio / Join free forum for details: www.miniaturepaintingforum.com
Will continue in 2021. Details in…2021!
Merry Christmas!
Shown here are scattered Zoom images of my students from 2020! And will post more of their work too!
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NIGHT 447 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

Happy to be featured on the wonderful Art Illuminated podcast by Esra Alhamal of @islamicillumination Esra Mohd
I listened to it and we actually covered loads of ground!
I talk about my art, journey as an artist, creative process, my life-changing moment encountering my favourite historical miniature painting, how the book as an object and an idea is central to my practice, my teaching and courses, ripping out book pages (! Not by me), carpet pages and Carpet Pages, the series of exhibitions I curate, weaving, roots, stories, thinking outside of the boxes and outside of the margins, escaping the frame, the difference between water-based and oil-based paint, different surfaces, vertical and horizontal perspectives and formats in western and eastern art, floating islands and series of islands giving multiple perspectives, not prioritising one over another, in the Deleuzian rhizomatic sense – no privileged viewpoint, magic carpets as islands, growing up in Hong Kong island hopping daily, changing my reference points and my early interest in the outlying and the marginal, the city and the natural landscape, anthropomorphism in landscapes, maps and the importance of islands in history, the spark in my childhood that prompted my 1001 Nights PhD adventure today, my 10,000 hours, being interrupted – like Shahrazad, who was also a mother – while also being in the flow and picking up where you left off and embracing that, historical art workshops and their deadlines, insomnia and creativity, frame narratives and stories within stories, fate and magic, early cinema and 16mm film, talismanic shirts, the Arabic abjad, letters and numbers and big numbers, survival instinct, the curating process and the story behind my brushes. Fittingly we recorded it in the @britishlibrary with all its attendant public sound effects 🙂 Thanks to Esra Alhamal @islamicillumination for doing such a good job with her seamless editing skills!

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NIGHT 446 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

Festive gift ideas from small businesses also coming out of UCL, including yours truly 🙂 The Perfect Brush! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/…/discover-unique-festive-gift…
Some great ideas here including food and drink. And I really like Playbrush for my kids’ ages – smart toothbrushes – anything that playfully gets through the morning routine is a winner (is hard!) Enjoy!
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NIGHT 445 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

Malachite in all kinds of shells
Why not… nice to hold in the palm when painting little bitty bits
Shell colours are so called because they were stored in shells (not because they were made from shells)
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NIGHT 442 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

*LAST POSTING DATES for The Perfect Brush before Christmas*:
UK: Order before 12 noon on Friday 18 December for UK orders. I’ll of course endeavour to get your order to you or your gift recipient before Christmas, but if you would like to guarantee this then I recommend ordering before midnight on 17 December.
Asia, Africa, the Americas: Order before 9 December
Canada, USA: Order before 12 December
Europe: Last posting dates between 11-18 December depending on whether is European islands, Eastern Europe or West and Central.
Please note that these are recommended dates only and nothing can be guaranteed outside of the UK as it also depends on local services. If you’re ordering for Christmas, the earlier the better. I will endeavour to do my best.
The official list is here: https://www.postoffice.co.uk/last-posting-dates

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NIGHT 441 – THE SLAVE GIRL TAWADDUD

‘Tis the season to start thinking about Christmas cards. I love calligraphy and calligraphers. The two combine beautifully in this perfect Christmas card I got out again from my student Christina Janoszka Christina Anna Janoszka – she’s a brilliant calligrapher and makes wonderful handmade cards for all seasons as well as many other bespoke products. I believe in small business and supporting the self-employed, artisanal companies that drive creativity in this country and in the world. She’s a really talented lettering artist who has mastered the difficult copperplate pointed pen style and her writing flows with ease and beauty. It’s such a pleasure to receive something elegantly handwritten that you know someone has taken time and thought to write. Even her ‘normal’ handwriting is neat and beautiful! (Unlike mine!) Commission calligraphy this Christmas, it is such a joy to give and receive.

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