At one with Nature

She paints roses, lilies, carnations, gladiolas, hydrangea and baby’s breath showing her inspiration to anything and everything “natural.” “I was watching CNN the other day and saw that there’s this girl who’s going to wear the same dress for six months and donate the money she would have otherwise spent on clothes, and raise money and awareness to abolish slavery. There are little children planting trees and avoiding what they think is harmful to their world. I think this is what the future is heading to, something the previous generation has destroyed. It’s interesting that people are going back to their roots,” says the Pakistani artist who paints everything from impressionist still life, to landscapes and woodblock inspired ink drawings. “I’m against cutting trees so I don’t use the ancient technique using Cherrywood tree but I carve out of blocks to print and use water colours to create my work,” she says. “It’s impossible to do full justice and capture the true and complete splendour of nature. I take one subject at a time, expressing the splendour in bits and pieces. A solitary rose, a leaf or an entire tree beaming with sunlight. I go to this abandoned spot in Karachi with my palette knives and work there. It’s lush with trees just like the Garden of Eden where one will hopefully end up. It gives out such a stark message that we all come with an expiry date but nature does not. It gives a spiritual dimension too,” she adds. Early 2009, Soraya began a project that depicted the downturn. She made a huge panel, oil on board, nearly 5 by 8 feet in size, which portrayed Adam Smith, the Father of Capitalism, leading on to a vague, shadowy silhouette and ultimately transforming into an empty skull. The panel titled ‘The story of recession.’ “I saw the changes that were taking place around the world and I spoke about it with my friends so they said why not have an exhibition and discuss it? We are artists we need to influence people with our work, make statements and bring about a change,” emphasises the painter who has also painted a series of elongated and overtly stretched figurines in cubist style to draw attention to deconstruction. In Karachi, Soraya also teaches art to poor children in a school. “Children are great artists. Just see the way they create things out of tissues, paper and straws.

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Fantasy Art Warrior Women-Pictures of Cats-Drawings of Scorpions-Paint Them With Oils

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As far as oil painting goes it’s not as scary as some people think. If you want to create the visions that are in your head, be it fantasy art warrior women, pictures of cats, drawings of scorpions, or if you hope to one day obtain landscapes still life portrait commissions, whimsical angel drawings, you might want to consider oil painting as your goal. It is to me, the most respected medium.

It’s true! Painting with oils may seem way scary, but it isn’t at all really!

Lots of people get stuck into doing acrylics, watercolors or feel content to just draw. That is fine of course, those mediums are great, but oil painting need not be excluded because you think it is too hard.

I confess! When I first started painting with oils? I felt it was just so overwhelming to begin.

One thing I would do to get over fear of painting, and this is not exclusive to oils, is be a Jackson Pollack for the day. You can still slather on the paint to create pictures of cats, drawings of scorpions or fantasy fairies, just be loose about it. No pressure for realism.

Turn on your favorite music, pump up the volume and get ready for an art dance, or should we call it a dance of learning to play with art?

First find a piece of plywood lying around, or anything really. Search out some old house paint or go to the hardware store and buy some of their sale stuff.. just a few colors is fine. It does not have to be a major expense, in fact, that is the point, in order to free yourself up, it needs to be as little expense as possible. Find some old junk.. old jewelry , even Christmas wrapping paper or weird things you come across. Next take it all outside and PLAY! Just PLAY.. no pressure for anything to turn out. Dump stuff on the plywood and be a Pollack for the day. Let it dry and then go back and play again over the same piece, building up a patina effect. Metallic paints are great for this too!

OK, so after that you should feel a certain sense of freedom about painting. Now lets try some oils on canvas! How fun! (Yup no grumbling, this is gonna be fun.)

When oils are thinned down with turpentine they have a lot more ease. You can make it all really sloshiy (my word for messy) and PLAYFUL! That doesn’t mean you only use thinned down oils but just think about that and use it as you will. Start out thin and end with thick.

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