PHOTOS OF FALL FESTIVAL AT YARMOUK CULTURAL CENTER

Last Friday on 25th November, DAI held a unique 'Fall Festival', an interesting concept that featured everything felicitously artistic in two lovely open roof  courtyards of Yarmouk Cultural Center. I enjoyed every moment being there. In one of the two courtyards were local artists with their creative work in the form of paintings, mixed media, sculpted wares, decopatch, fine art, ink painting, glass painting, hand made artsy products and crafts. Live painting on canvases by artists was a sublime highlight. A motor cycle got a live hip makeover in luscious colors by affable hands of artists. In the second courtyard was the food stalls and live music and dance events. We reached in the evening and so we missed some of the performances. We got to see an Armenian dance, live music by talented vocalists, and hip hop by dancers from LAPA Loyac.

It was wonderful evening out. I hope we get to see more art inspired events like these. Let me share some photos of this lovely event.

PAINTING OF A DEER

One of the hobbies my children were engaged in was different forms of art. It was the summer of 1997, when schools had closed for summer vacation. My son did his first painting in water colors of a deer. This was 15 years ago, when he was 10 years old!. It hangs in the corridor near his bedroom.  This is one of my personal favourites of some of his work as a child. Today he is miles away in Michigan,  U.S.A, and I get to see him only once year. I think he will be pleasantly surprised to see his painting put up in my post.....

MY PHOTO FOR THE DAY - GIFT OF FLOWERS, A PAINTING BY ME

This is a painting I did for my husband way back in 2004! That was the first time I painted flowers using oil paints. I remember how anxious and apprehensive I was that time, wondering if it would come out alright. It seemed difficult in the beginning, but as I kept working on it, there was flow, a continuity, fuelled by the desire of wanting to see it reach completion. It was something special I wanted to gift my husband. This taught me that whatever seems impossible, difficult or hard in the beginning, if you are passionate about your desire or dream, and follow it, without stopping, you will see it fulfilled in some way or other.