Friday, July 23, 2021

Jonah

Always imagined Jonah with Albrecht Dürer face. Maybe because of his determined and focused eyes, and his wet long hair, and his interest to paint the animals. Jonah went out in anger from the great desert of Nineveh but his fate was not what he expected.

«And [remember] the Man of the Fish, when he left in a rage, thinking that We would not put him to hardship. Then he cried out in the darkness, ‘There is no god except You! You are immaculate! I have indeed been among the wrongdoers!’»
[21–87] Quran

Jonah means pigeons but his surname in Quran is Dhu al-Nun / Dhu'n-Nun (the man who owns the fish). The bird and the sea.





 

Friday, October 5, 2018

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Battle of Karbala

Many years ago, my first attempts to picture the story of karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, as minimal as I could.
I really like the primitive and pure feeling of these simple drawings.


Sunday, February 11, 2018

Saturday, January 13, 2018

The 1908 bombardment of the Majlis of Iran

Goldsmith and the Cashmere Singing

Illustrations for one of the stories from "One Thousand and One Nights" book.
The works are pre-selected for ILUSTRARTE 2018, Illustration Biennial of Portugal.


The Golden Pinwheel International Young Illustrators Competition

The Golden Pinwheel International Young Illustrators Competition is an international event organized by the Shanghai Children’s Book Fair (CCBF).
These works have been selected for 2017 CCBF.
The Title is Tristan and Isolde