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.

 

Bahman 1357

Self-portrait

My self-portrait with a bird inspired by Qajar art and the background of beautiful Shazdeh Mahan Garden
For the exhibition ما تصویرگر خود هستیم / We are self illustrators

Ashura

در شب ظلمت ماه منی

Muharram

برگزیده در یازدهمین دوره‌ی سوگواره‌ی هنر عاشورایی

North

Based On A True Story

Epic

Some scenes for War

Brushes

Here's one of Jim Dine's great Brushes series we saw in tmoca. (photo by me)
Parsa, 6, liked it so much as I do too. He sat on the floor in front of it, painted it down and signed.

Rostamnāmeh

From 52 frames illustrated for the book Rostamnāmeh.

Birds

Exotic

Rostam goes inside him and fights the tiger.

Beheaded

Family Trip