Red city or Unfinished business

This is my second painting of the year. Enjoy!

Tree on fire or Burning tree

Zen

Disappointments and happiness...

Night, fireworks, and the moon

One day, we will be the stars!

Cliff

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Blue

I am sure you are wondering whether I took a break. Not really. I have been working on 3 paintings but couldn't complete any one of them. Now, I think, this one is ready to go.

The painting is very much related to several photos I took while I was wandering around Sile. 

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 what I have now. Note that I couldn't wait the beautiful sunshine to take photos. I took them in my room in the late evening. So the photos may be distorted a bit.

 

I might add new photos tomorrow morning...

Merging

Sunflowers in the pre-evening

A lot of people like sunflowers. I like sunflowers, too. In Turkish, sunflowers have a few names. One of them is "aycicegi" meaning 'moonflower', another one is "gunasik" meaning 'in love with day'. This second meaning is most likely derived from 'in love with the sun'. Yet, another name is "gunebakan" meaning 'sungazer'.

I have already a painting called Sunflowers completed in 2009. You can follow this link to have a look at.

Now I have completed a new one. I am calling this 'Sunflowers in the pre-evening' since it is a little bit darker than I intended. I am borrowing this concept 'pre-evening' from Big Bang Theory.

Enjoy!

Red tree

So you like minimalism, she said. Not in linguistics, though, I replied.

Tiger in the dark

Another painting of mine. Again, I used one of the photos at National Geographic website as a model.

Valley

Snow and Trees

It finally snowed in Istanbul. So, as you might have guessed, I started working on a painting with regard to snow. Trees are wonderful when snowed, you know.

Recently, I have been going through some photos at the National Geographic website. This painting is very much influenced by a photo over there.

Enjoy!

#78 A path in the forest

Wow! I now have 78 paintings! "A path in the forest" is my first painting of 2012. (no, I haven't been to this place. I saw a photo in National Geographic's website then made this painting similar to that).

Waves

The weather had been surprisingly good until Friday. It was around 10C (50F). Then, winter finally came. Apparently, it snowed a bit but I didn't see any snow in Sile. What I felt and saw is the wind, a bit cold 4C (35-40F), and amazing waves at the Black Sea.

While watching the waves from my balcony, I decided to paint it online -- while watching them. I did it, I guess. Though, my intention was a bit different than what I had at the end. Enjoy!

Psycho the Cat

Beril has a cat, a toy actually. When she introduced it to me, she said its name is Psycho, a bit weird for a cat, I know. But Psycho is a really lovely cat.
Psycho accompanies me when I have breakfast and dinner, if I am at home. It says good night and good morning to me almost every day. It sometimes waves its hands to Beril when we are on Skype :)
It is more beautiful than as depicted here.

ps. go away Evil Eyes! :)

The lion (2)

How beautiful this animal is! I love it!

ps. Beril told me that this painting is a little bit depressive, like, the lion in a cage. I don't know. Maybe. But, I really enjoyed doing it :)

Two close-ups:

Darkness inside out

I have been working on this painting, Darkness inside out, for a couple of days now. Here is its story:

Last holiday, I stopped by Mephisto, not Goethe's Mephisto :) but a chain of bookstores, in Kadikoy. There I was sitting alone, looking for something to spend time on. I then pencil-drawed several things, see one of my previous posts.

A few days ago, I had time to start a new painting. While I was looking for an idea to begin with, I remembered where I sat in Mephisto. Now that I completed the painting, I felt that it doesn't look like that bookstore :) Anyways...

A few photos are the following. Note that the painting is a little bit darker and disproportional on purpose than it looks in the photos:

A few close-ups for interested guys:

If you wanna see, the very beginning of Darkness inside out, here are two photos:

Seclusion

Let me say this, it was a wonderful day while I was working on this painting, Seclusion. I was listening to the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack, which is fantastic. Seclusion is neither related to the show nor the music, though.

When I started working on the composition, I was planning to have a very dark background, a black tree, a person sitting, and a fire. The fire was going to be the only light source with the exception of stars here and there. When the figures began to emerge, I wanted to receive Beril's ideas about it. Then, I showed it to her on gtalk and skype. She couldn't see the figures clearly. The tree, for instance, was so dark.

Yesterday night, then, I started working on the tree from scratch. I wish to have it luminous. I hope I could give that impression. Enjoy!

Here are some photos including close-ups.

ps. From my facebook status: "I have been listening to Battlestar Galactica soundtrack while painting called 'Seclusion'... loved it... photos will be uploaded tomorrow :P" 

close-ups:

Trees

Some of you may have already realized that I like trees. My wife, Beril, recently shared a beautiful photo of sky with stars and trees. That photo provided me a base to work on. No, this painting is not a copy of the photo - you can check it here. It took me two days to complete Trees.

I think and I hope Beril likes this painting.

I am adding two photos of Trees. The second one is from a side angle to get rid of some reflections.