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2 Jan 2008

Nubian House Door

19 Nov 2007

Green Door


Watercolour and crayon
40cm x 30 cm

24 Oct 2007

Fishing Boats









Alexandria, Egypt

Watercoulor
45 cm x 60 cm

6 Oct 2007

Morning Glory Collection







Watercolour

45cm x 33cm

25 Sept 2007

Thornbury Harbour


Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada
Watercolour 36 cm x 27 cm




Here I am hard at work painting the habour.




We later went fishing and did not
have to invent a fish story!
Nice salmon netted by Aziz.

2 Sept 2007

El Hakim Winter Home





Gouna, Red Sea, Egypt
Watercoulour,
22 cm x 25 cm

13 Aug 2007

Pennsylvania Landscape



I was commissioned by an American lady to paint this beautiful landscape around her Pennsylvania residence.


It took 6 days to complete. This is how it looked on day 2.

12 May 2007

Corner Store


Cairo, Egypt
Watercolour
2007

1 May 2007

Drip Dry



2007, Toronto , Canada

Watercolour, 22cm x33cm

A study in free and watery brush strokes

17 Apr 2007

Architectural Detail




2007, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour

40cm x 60cm



Rendering of the "stalactites" on the west wall of the Sultan Baybars mausoleum.


Sheesha






2007,

medium: Watercolour

28cm x 36cm

Ladies enjoying their sheeshas (water pipes).

24 Jan 2007

Bullmoose




2007, Algonquin Park, Ontario,
medium: watercolour



This painting was inspired by a photo taken by my sons during their adventurous trip in the wild. Luckily, the moose did not charge!

14 Jan 2007

Palm Trees

2007, Near Aswan, Egypt
medium: watercolour

28 Dec 2006

View From Kitchen Window


2006, Brittany, France
medium: watercolour
size: 40cm x 35cm


This painting portrays the view of the guest house from the kitchen window of Laila's vacation home, an old converted mill. It has become customary for us to spend summer vacations with her. After seeing this, she created her own "patchwork" interpretation.(a cloth cut-and-sew medium she has mastered) .

Hypostyle Hall,Temple of Karnak




2006, Upper Egypt
medium: watercolour
Size: 40cm x 60cm

27 Dec 2006

Gamal el Dine Adh-Dhabi House



2006, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour

Grant


2006 , Wasaga Beach, Ontario
medium
: watercolour

Size: 25cm x 30cm

My friend Rafik's old sleepy dog

Timber Bridge


2006, Lighthouse Point

Collingwood, Ontario

medium: watercolour

31 Jan 2006

Gouna Marina

2006, Gouna , Red Sea
medium: watercolour
size: 35cm x 60cm
Many fish stories have emerged from Gerard's boat

19 Jan 2006

Silverware Bazar


2006, Cairo

14 Jan 2006

Nile Village

2006, along the River Nile, Egypt
medium: watercolour

31 Dec 2005

Majorca Village



2005, Campanet, Spain

View from Paula's window

28 Dec 2005

Side Entrance

Side entrance to my cousin's vacation residence







2005, Brittany, France.
medium: pencil and watercolour
25cm x 30cm






16 Jan 2005

Angry Sea


2004, Atlantic Canada
medium: watercolour

31 Dec 2004

Very Cold



2004, Georgian Bay, Canada

medium: watercolour

Cold, cold day in the northern wilderness.

30 Dec 2004

The Courtyard


2004, Old Cairo
medium: watercolour
A typical Ottoman house with an open courtyard.

El Hara


2005, Old Cairo
medium: watercolour
A busy lane in a mixed residential, commercial district

28 Dec 2004

Brittany Home

2004, Brittany, France
medium: pencil
size: 25cm x 30cm

14 Jan 2004

Hand Etude




4 Jan 2004

Resort Condo






The sketch as developed in first day, and the seventh day

2004, Soukhna, Red Sea

medium: pencil

View of neighbour's place, from Malak's condo deck

28 Dec 2002

Red Sea View


2002, Gouna
Medium: pencil and watercolour
size: 30cm x 30 cm
This is a sketch looking out of my brother's chalet






14 Jan 1992

African Mask



1992, Niger

medium: pencil

During my travels in Africa, I picked up and sketched this Nigerian witchdoctor mask .

27 Dec 1984

Toronto City Hall


1984, Toronto, Canada

Medium: pencil

View from the 42nd floor of the First Canadian Place office tower

27 Dec 1979

View of Old Cairo


1979, Cairo, Egypt

artist: Mohsen Rifaat

medium: felt-tip pen