***Artist Statement***

Throughout my young art career, I have created paintings and drawings through programs that allow me to express my own emotions and to connect with those of others. As a young artist, my work is meant to appeal to other teenagers to trigger emotion or humor. Some of my works are representations of my interests and abilities of programs to convey a message. Through symbols and characters that appear commonly in the lives of a teenager or in the media, or with familiar objects, I am able to convey a reaction from an audience. With songs that are not discovered by many and with subjects that represent interests, I can depict a whole story worth a thousand or a million words, depending on whoever will see my work. The symbols of music groups and common places are familiar to me and can be relatable to people who have the same interests.

Or in my case...

We've all seen the commercial...

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Take Art!!!!!!!

From seventh grade to now, I took Art classes since I loved computers an making things in different programs. There are many classes that involve art, like printmaking or photography, that are electives that are open to everyone if you are in the minimum required year of high school or higher. Art is how you can express yourself and gain more skill, either if you're planning to go into an art career, or just make projects for fun. So take art! It's not complicated or too easy, it's catered just for your interests!

Made in Corel Painter 12: just the IKEA monkey as the ruined Jesus painting restoration figure.

Serious Music Video

Watch this film that I mad of myself. It's a story about suicide and the stats of it, to convince other teens not to. It was definitely not funny, and meant to teach people. I, myself, am not suicidal, just wanted to mae a video about it. The reason I did  this compare to a funny one, because I wanted the show that was going to have lots of boring or same videos, and I wanted mine to be different. It was a simple film made using Final Cut Pro X, and the song used is called "Everyone's Waiting" by Missy Higgins. The actual music video has the same concept, as missy attempted to drown herself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiFKGbH4NzE

A Kinetic Text Video / Typography

Typography is a great way for people who are new to Final Cut Pro to learn about the program. Here is one I made of a song I used to listen to all the time, "Life is Getting Better" by Javier Colon. Some of you may have heard it from the Hollister playlist. Simple text with a simple background. Enjoy!

MAN YOU CRAZY?

One of my favorite Youtubers, former Chicagoan Lamar Wilson, made into text art with illustrator and lines. Made using the quotes and catch phrases he uses.

Here's the original:

Some Corel Painter experience...

I used corel for about two weeks and ended up making this:

I think the best part about it is the coffee inside the cup. There were problems to make the wood pattern, since there wasn't a bender that I was aware of, so I ended up using an oily blender.

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Unity!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a little picture that I have that represents unity. The only way I was able to represent it through art without drawing it was using the sea. Her you go:

Le Desert

One of my earlier projects, using photoshop to make pop art. The colors were deeply contrasted, and yes that's me on a camel, in a hammock, and as a giant. Not to mention the carpet. If you didn't get the hint so far, I'm in love with Arab culture. I might spend part of my life as a bedouin...

If you notied, it is my background as of January 15th.

Surrealism in Photoshop

Some more of my art...

Made in photoshop- It's of the statue (a symbol of the US) burning the flags and creating conflict in the Middle East. The horse is a symbol of the brutal wars that only continue.

++++++BIG BANG+++++++++

A little gig poster I made of my fave K-Pop artist

wow, fantastic baby! ¡Look up "big bang" if you have no clue who I 'm talking about!

Some Personal Info

Some art from the beginning of the year. When I was a newbie...
I'm not Lebanese, but I like koalas and have a cool arabic name. Why koala? Well, I went to Australia over the summer! Here's a little picture with a filter. Can you guess where this is?

My first post... wauw