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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

From one of the Zen koans: "My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink."

Early stuff (pencil drawings and other wonders)

Pencil drawings You can click on the picture and see my early works. I was learning how to do pencil drawing by copying the pictures f...
Snowing in Istanbul @Jan 14, 2012

Yesterday (Jan 14, 2012), it was snowing beautifully in Istanbul. There was electricity shortage in many cities including Istanbul (subway w...
It's snowing Snow White

Because of the fact that many people liked my Snow and Trees painting, I decided to have another painting with the theme snow. Here is wha...
Touristing in Sile

Today (March 18, 2012) is a warm and sunny Sunday. I took advantage of this and wandered around Sile. Since I went to the port yesterday and...
Happy Father's Day

Some of you have already known that we have a little halfling at home. Because today is the Father's Day, we are celebrating mine the s...
'Monkey mind'

'Monkey mind' başlığını seçerken Türkçeye nasıl çevirdiler acaba diye düşündüm ilk önce. 'Maymun zihin' :) Direk çevirisi bö...
Under the tree

As I wrote here before, I had been working on two new paintings. I think I have completed one of them. Its name is 'under the tree'...
Self-portrait / The Lion

I think this painting is almost complete. So I am posting it here.
Enchantment

I don't know why but I really like this one.
Two owls - modified

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