down town people

16" by 11½" watercolours on arches 300gms rough

people from downtown Amman again

11½" x 8" watercolours on saunders waterford 200lb

downtown people running errands

watercolours on paper 11" by 8"

Another Man from Downtown Amman

11 1/2" by 8" watercolours on arches 300 paper

old man in downtown Amman

11 1/2" by 8" watercolours on arches 300 paper

sweet face of an old man from downtown amman #3

watercolour on canson paper  11 1/2" by 8"

old man with an interesting face #1

watercolour on canson paper 11 1/2" y 8"

Another old man passing by when I was downtown, his face is full of character and dignity as only old men can be, they are such wonderful and intersting people to capture and paint, let alone talk to...

a helping hand

14" by 10" watercolour on arhe rough paper

this is another scene from downtown amman ... very inspiring to me ... I just love painting the shadows to give the feel of sunlight

Portrait of an pld man

Street artist in Paris

This is another image posted by ScattyKat in the WDE last week and it just blew me away ... another memory from Paris It was also done without a preliminary sketch like all my work ... it let me see things as shapes and shadows and I really focus to see all these lovely shapes around me ... rather than follow pencil lines while working

7 by 11" bockingford 140lb CP in watercolours

portraits again

Lately I have been painting portraits, I love doing them, hard though they are, I just cannot resist them, I feel there is a story behind each face, a character,and soul, to be able to portray all that is a gift some people possess more than athers..
I like to improve on my portraits, I never bother with likeness or anything because I am trying to capture everything else, through painting without a preliminary sketch first, the problem is I sometimes spot a mistake after I am halfway through... that is why I feel frustrated about it ...

My aim is to do a portrait with glowing colours, and in one go.. I mean without needing to fiddle or fix anything at all...

11 by 7" Arches 140lb Cp watercolours
this was done for the WDE .. this is my FOURTH attempt ... the pose was hard to carture but I liked her and wanted to capture her as best I could

10 by 7" bockingford 140lb CP watercolours

This one was so easy to paint there are some portraits that practically paint themselves ... and this sweet old man was one...  I am pleased with the results and skin tones

11 by 7" Bockingford 140lb CP watercolours

This was done from a photo in the IRL  on Wetcanvas for a portrait paint along on Paintingfriends I loved to capture the lighting on her face and her headscarf,  and the pattern,  and strong contrast

Here I actually did a quick rough sketch before colouring it ... because I had to paint away from the white areas on the face