Manchester School of Architecture Portfolio: My Artwork

I used pen and water in the first layer to shade the bricks and Arabic writing. On the second layer, I used water colours to give it an abstract composition

This picture was taken during my visit to Singapore. I was attracted to the shape of the windows contrasting the curved with the straight. I intensified the photo with image-editing software, making it more dynamic. I used acrylics for accuracy in this painting and to make it stand out

This picture was also taken during my visit to Singapore. I did this painting using acrylics and I stylized it to make it look more colourful and appealing than the original photograph

This is a dhow (old boat) that was and still used for fishing in Qatar. I linked it to Van Gogh’s style of painting because I liked his simple yet impressionable style of brushwork.

This is an Islamic vase, Kashkul, made of brass with engravings of Arabic writing. I used chalk and charcoal for the shading and tone. I also used white pencil for the engraved writing.

I used water colours to paint the bricks and the door. Then I used ink to give the picture a three-dimensional effect

 I found the 'desert rose' an interesting form to look at because of its complicated shape and structure. It is formed naturally and the process of it is just sand and salt water mixed and then evaporated. I used charcoal and pencil to make this drawing

Then I became inspired to make it into an architectural form. So I produced sculptures of the desert rose with foam boards glued together in random positions and covered it with sheets of plaster to make it more firm and stable

 I developed this structure further by adding more foam boards above the structure to give it a tower-like effect

 This is another sculpture I made of the desert rose but made it horizontal instead of vertical

       These hexagonal-prism igneous rocks were also formed naturally. The shape was similar to building columns which is a vital part in architecture today. I used black and white pencil. I also made sculptures of them

I first made an empty 3-6 centimeter hexagonal-prism with tall plastic boards and then poured plaster into them. Then I experimented with different methods of pouring the plaster, for example, adding rocks and plaster, adding sand in the plaster mixture, and putting different shapes of clay inside the boards