being human commission

This is a commission i finished for a Rabbi in Texas. Rabbi Scott commissioned me to create a logo for his classes. He is based in Texas, Shma Koleinu…Rabbi Scott suggested Da Vinci’s Vitruvian man for the logo. The name of his classes? ‘being Human’. I told him that woman & children are human too,…

one of my favorite commissions

if you look super-duper close at the name beneath the word, “Siddur” you will find, absaab. Which is me. This is the second Jewish prayer book/Siddur that i have been commissioned to design/paint the covers for. I was shooting the redesigned school, the kids seeing the new changes to their school & i came across…

rock, paper, scissors & glass

her media choices are ever changing, her style changes as does the seasons. My mother finds an art form & takes it every direction she cares to, until she stumbles onto another. Her studio table, today, is covered in glass- bright, colorful & sharp. All waiting to be assembled. On her shelves, sit her origami…

No Christmas & Chanukah mixing this year…instead

it will be Thanksgiving & Chanukah with a splash of football. So how does one decorate? Instead of blue & white Chanukah candles, it will be red, orange, yellow & brown candles.  I suppose I should be grateful I found some.

ah…a Camelot knight lives here

For this is a noble house of Saab. With Sir Henry charming his mother of Halloween candy for breakfast. Easy to make…pencil, matt board, acrylic paint, the AMAZING Chisel tip Sharpie (best invention EVER) for the back of the shield- two inch wide masking tape. So Henry could carry it. directions…8″ of tape then, 4″…

and all I had was my iPhone

I, being the perfect daughter (dripping sarcasm, i write), visited with my mother (i am blessed) on Mother’s day. No camera, only iPhone (Ggrrr). I should know by now that I should never go home…(oops) to my parent’s house, without my (damn) camera. My mom made this piece of art (that I left behind 😦…

This artist’s sketchbook has my studio’s logo

At the beginning of class we learn to draw one thing, usually an animal. The hardest thing about learning to draw is learning where to start & that when you start- to learn to see where the lines are off & how to correct them. These are things that people/kids assume they are supposed to…