Tag: islamic illumination
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Rumi vs. Florals
Did you notice the difference between Rumi and Floral designs? In Ottoman Illumination Art, there are Rumi and pure floral designs. Rumi can be designed with flowers or just Rumi elements. There are more steps in a Rumi design but only when painting your artwork will you notice its beauty. Personally, I love the combination…
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Private Islamic Illumination Art Workshop
Aside from the online available courses I offer in Ottoman Illumination Art, I’m also doing private workshops. In this post, I will explain more about this private workshop with details about how it works and difference between it and the available online courses. Direct interaction In this Ottoman Illumination workshop, you’ll constantly be able to…
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Why Islamic Illumination?
I dedicate this blog post to every single person who wants to understand why I’m working on Ottoman Islamic Illumination Art, and what to expect when you learn it. While I was working in a graphic design, I fell in love with designing patterns. At that time, my designs were pure digital designs. Even the…
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New Choice
I’m constantly looking for new opportunities. Expanding one’s abilities and skills is essential with time. The most important question to ask yourself constantly, ‘what is it that I want?’. We can easily get attempted by others’ stories and lifestyles, soon adapting their ambitions to our lives and live as though they are our ambitions. Only…
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Online Islamic Illumination Art Workshop (Arabic)
Just like the previous workshop I’m publishing this post for the upcoming online workshop. This post will be updated constantly until the workshop is fully published. This online course is temporarily unavailable. This is the design we’ll be working on: The online workshop will be published as one full workshop. It won’t be divided like…
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White Gold Halkar Şemse
A pencil sketch is the beginning yet it only shows the general look of the design. With colors, painting technique and outlines each pattern will have its own identity of beauty. There are limited choices of colors to use for traditional Ottoman Illumination Painting, yet each pattern has a different ambiance to it. If you’re…
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Painting a Cloud Pattern
It’s a cloud pattern this time. Being confused at the beginning as to how to draw a certain motif, or how to construct a full pattern is completely normal. It takes some time to understand the concept and practice it. Yet, if you learned it from a professional or have your own source of learning…
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Online Ottoman Illumination Workshop
It’s better that I write a descriptive post regarding the Ottoman Illumination Workshop that I’m working on. I promised that I’ll keep students interested in learning this art updated with the progress for this online workshop, so I decided to write everything here. Once the workshop is up and ready, there will be a registration…
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Analyzing Patterns #1 Part 1
It’s about time I start a new series of analyzing patterns. It’s not until I observed some of the photos I took when I traveled to Turkey that I better understood the patterns used in most of their decor and designs. Being able to reach such a level is true happiness that me studying the…