Unbelievable Amount of Updates (10/28/11)

• Outlaw Midwives Vol 3 was released today. I have one article in it, but the whole zine is beautiful and great reading.
• As you can see, I have redesigned this blog. Which was a lot of fun, but the best part was learning how to create the banner for the Elephant & Dove Etsy shop, which I am also using here on this site.
• There are several things available in the Elephant & Dove Etsy shop – some crochet scarves/cowls, crochet hair scrunchies, prints of some of my art, and the Jewels for Survival Vol 3 zine.
• I taught myself how to make wrist warmers (fingerless gloves) and have been busy making some as gifts. You can keep up with my crochet and knit projects on my Ravelry page, though I need to update it with the purses I made last Ramadan and the projects that are up in the Etsy shop.
• I created a blog for queer Muslims and am partnering with some other fantastic queer Muslims to run it.
• I am participating in the Art House Co-Op Sketchbook Project and just designed the cover of the sketchbook this week. When I’ve completed the sketchbook, I will scan it and upload it to be viewable online. My theme is “Time Traveler” and I am incorporating stitching and collage elements into my idea of traveling thru time to learn from my favorite artists (many thanks to my friend Sumayyah for the idea for how to use the theme).

Sketchbook 3/27/11

It’s been a whole month since i posted stuff from my sketchbook, but i was not sketching as constantly due to the previous project i was working on. Here are a few things i’ve done over the last month in my sketchbook:

Turkish Tulip - done as a gift

attempt at a lizard

playing with new watercolors

sketchbook 2/26/11

this week’s sketches. some are quite terrible, LOL. others i am pretty fond of. i tried some new things and discovered an art form i love. the dot art is very mesmerizing and relaxing.

sketchbook

for the first time ever in life, i am keeping a sketchbook. i don’t pretend to be a great drawing artist, but this is still helpful. in high school i did take – and love – art classes. early in my senior year i learned how to draw a wonderful black-power fist with shading and all. i also did still life sketches in that class. it was amazing to me to discover that i actually could draw, since i had only been a word artist until then and considered my brother the visual artist. unfortunately, i stopped drawing all together and am suddenly trying to get back into it. so, finally, was convinced by a friend to try a sketchbook. also trying some other new visual art forms for the first time. here are the things i’ve done this past week: