December 27, 2011

Christmas calligraphy

I had a slew of commissions and gifts to make for the holidays, and now that Christmas is passed and all the presents have been received, I can share them here:

For Fida فداء, editor of RAGMAG and a special person!

For my father

For my uncle

For Nisreen نسرين from her sister


And last but not least Rita ريتا, from her other half. The creation process for this one is included below.


It was the first time I worked with a 6-angled construction, which was specially challenging.

Starting with the fine areas

First color completed

All color completed, before outlining, which I had to do freehand as finding the circle centers again was too difficult!