Narfon Tordat Industries - Overhead View - 13th November 2011

This is an overhead view of Narfon Tordat Industries. This sketch is on A5 paper using pencil and charcoal pencil.

Windsorian Heights

This is 'Windsorian Heights' predominantly sketched in charcoal pencil, it is one of my favourite loose sketches I have done so far. This photograph is taken under artificial daylight LED lamp and so it maintains the clean blue-white colour of the paper. Below is a photograph of the same sketch taken with camera flash which has given a more warm light, tungsten colouring:-

Flowers beyond a House - 10th November 2011

This is 'Flowers beyond a House' my latest work, completed today 10th November 2011, sketched in pencil on A5 paper, I may have started this with charcoal pencil like I did with 'Flowers beyond a Door.'

I had a few dreams about flowers over a year ago, I painted some major artworks, oil paintings of flowers and it inspired me in real life to do some oil paintings of flowers, before that I had no interest in painting flowers.

Clonallen Gorge - 10th November 2011

This is Clonallen Gorge, finished on 10th November 2011, I had originally intended to use charcoal only, but I eventually used pencil as well. This is on A4 paper.

McLachan Castle - 10th November 2011

This is McLachan Castle. This was drawn mainly with pencil with a little charcoal on A3. I finished this off today (10th November) but maybe sketched this roughly about a year ago or so.

Bare Room with Flowers - 10th November 2011

This is 'Bare Room with Flowers', this was the imaginary basis for my painting 'Raufum bil I'baadi' [Kind with (His) slaves], which was painted on 29th April 2010. This sketch was even more skeletal than this before, just as a guide for the painting. But today I just added some more marks to make it a work in itself. You can compare the painting that emanated from it  below here:-

The kindness alluded to here is that of shelter, simplicity, beauty, nature and the cause of contemplation in those. This Name of Allah occurs in the Qura'n in the following verses "And there is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah. And Allah is full of kindness to (His) slaves[raoo'fum bil i'baadi]." (al Baqarah 2:207) and "On the Day when every soul will be confronted with all the good it has done, and all the evil it has done, it will wish there were a great distance between it and its evil. But Allah cautions you (To remember) Himself. And Allah is full of kindness to his slaves." (aali I'mraan 3:30)

Flowers beyond a Door - 8th November 2011

This is 'Flowers beyond a Door', drawn on A5 in pencil and perhaps charcoal pencil. It was drawn on an angle. 8th November 2011