Day 309: "Reading Nook", acrylic on unstretched canvas, 9x12"
The theme for November is interior spaces, as an ode to the season of hunkering down for the winter and enjoying the warmth and comfort of home. This month’s paintings will feature scenes, lived spaces from my own cozy apartment, such as a corner of my kitchen where my monstera plant lives next to the window, or my favorite couch in the living room in which I’ve taken many afternoon naps, or my Dutch oven on my stovetop. The paintings will feature interior scenes from other spaces as well. This painting is a reinterpretation of a reading nook in the house I lived in when I was married in Egypt. The house was not fully furnished, and there was this giant bookcase in the master bedroom. I moved it to this dead space in the living room by a small window, I filled it up with books and I placed the lounge chair that I bought for nursing my daughter in front of it. And just like that it turned into one of the loveliest and coziest areas in my house and one of my favorite spaces to spend time in. I’ve spent countless hours in that corner, reading, writing, and even sketching in my sketchbook. The painting was done using acrylic on unstretched canvas with the edges taped off, leaving a white border. The canvas is an eco blend made of 50% hemp and 50% cotton and primed. It will be unframed, signed and dated on the back.
This is part of my year long project, "This sweet simple existence". During this year of living creatively, I will create small artworks everyday based around objects from my daily life, (mostly food, household items, perhaps the view from my window etc). thereby simply documenting the extraordinary in the ordinary joys of a simple life.
Day 309: "Reading Nook", acrylic on unstretched canvas, 9x12"
The theme for November is interior spaces, as an ode to the season of hunkering down for the winter and enjoying the warmth and comfort of home. This month’s paintings will feature scenes, lived spaces from my own cozy apartment, such as a corner of my kitchen where my monstera plant lives next to the window, or my favorite couch in the living room in which I’ve taken many afternoon naps, or my Dutch oven on my stovetop. The paintings will feature interior scenes from other spaces as well. This painting is a reinterpretation of a reading nook in the house I lived in when I was married in Egypt. The house was not fully furnished, and there was this giant bookcase in the master bedroom. I moved it to this dead space in the living room by a small window, I filled it up with books and I placed the lounge chair that I bought for nursing my daughter in front of it. And just like that it turned into one of the loveliest and coziest areas in my house and one of my favorite spaces to spend time in. I’ve spent countless hours in that corner, reading, writing, and even sketching in my sketchbook. The painting was done using acrylic on unstretched canvas with the edges taped off, leaving a white border. The canvas is an eco blend made of 50% hemp and 50% cotton and primed. It will be unframed, signed and dated on the back.
This is part of my year long project, "This sweet simple existence". During this year of living creatively, I will create small artworks everyday based around objects from my daily life, (mostly food, household items, perhaps the view from my window etc). thereby simply documenting the extraordinary in the ordinary joys of a simple life.
