RESOURCES

I have a few e-books on Persian painting and drawing, I've downloaded them years ago; free and legal from the MET museum, please enjoy but do not sell them. I hope this is the right categorie for it. The link is functional until next Thursday, the 18th of August 2022. https://we.tl/t-QDd5rLsLcF

Wonders of Creation by Qazwini--a free download of this book. Scroll through the pages to get to the illustrations

Useful for brush handling and rendering techniques - we delve into this more in the Siyah Qalam class and I also explain the thinking behind each brush technique; here are the sample images for now to compare with miniature painting.

Here's the Fire class lecture so you can download and see all the images. I talk through these as part of the introductory spiel that makes up the first part of each Fire class and the students are welcome to keep these after (as long as they are for educational purposes, etc). The cycle of elements

Here's the Rocks class lecture so you can download and see all the images. I talk through these as part of the introductory spiel that makes up the first part of each Rocks class and the students are welcome to keep these after (as long as they are for educational purposes, etc). The cycle of elemen

Some more general info on miniature painting for beginners. I would say that there is differing opinion eg. on the use of egg white as starch, and also the legend about Chinese prisoners teaching the art of paper making to Samarqandis is apparently... well, legendary. Otherwise a good overall view:

Info on traditional colours of Islamic manuscripts: https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-018-0217-y

Materials list for Practical Miniature Painting Online courses: SOFTWARE AND DEVICES: Up to date Internet browser to browse online painting collections Laptop and smartphone with camera, microphone, headphones and internet connection to participate in the online class Printer desirable MATERI

For your convenience: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx https://collections.vam.ac.uk/category/manuscripts/THES48922/ https://www.si.edu and https://asia.si.edu/collections/ https://library.harvard.edu/digital-collections https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/ https://www.davidmus.dk/en/collections

(Ok not a physical shop!) (But everything else is!) VAISHALI PRAZMARI BRUSHES - THE PERFECT BRUSH - specially designed and lovingly created handmade brushes from best quality Kolinsky sable and swan feather by yours truly, for traditional miniature painting and contemporary watercolours https://www.

Wonders of the Age: Master Painters of India 1100-1900, by John Guy and Jorrit Britschgi - recommend buying the book, but in case access is hard I came across a PDF version of it here which you can download for free. Contains very useful info about Mughal masters: Basawan ‘Abd al-Samad - of camel f

I'm currently recreating The Court of Gayumars, my all-time favourite painting which is held in the Aga Khan collection in Toronto. Enjoy the quick video above! (In the live sessions, we've moved on much further.) Although the painting is apparently resting (thank you @Sayeda Habib for the info!),

Here's the Siyah Qalam class lecture so you can download and see all the images. I talk through these as part of the introductory spiel that makes up the first part of each Siyah Qalam class and the students are welcome to keep these after (as long as they are for educational purposes, etc). The cyc

Here's the Water class lecture so you can download and see all the images. I talk through these as part of the introductory spiel that makes up the first part of each Water class and the students are welcome to keep these after (as long as they are for educational purposes, etc). The cycle of elemen

Part of the rarer Theory classes I have taught that situates miniature painting in context with other art stuff going on in Eurasia.

A modern Indian textbook entry on miniature manuscript paintings, written by Indians for Indians - illuminating to see how it is taught in schools in India today: https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/lefa101.pdf

YOU WILL NEED Oil paints!* Linseed oil Oil painting varnish This is the only smelly stuff: either turpentine, or artists’ white spirit, or Sansodor - a brush cleaner - and methylated spirits** Brushes: brushes are available here: https://www.theperfectbrush.co.uk - the Humours series is suited for

Weimann, Ingrid and Nedim Sonmez. Christopher Weiman: (1946-1988) A Tribute. Tubingen, Germany: Jackle-Sonmez, 1991. 107 pages. Wolfe, Richard J. Marbled Paper its History, Techniques, and Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania Press, 1990. 245 pages. Nevins, Iris. Traditional Marbling. 2

A lovely student @fzkabelitz has translated a book on the elusive Siyah Qalam from German into English. One of the main scholars appears to be Turkish (and the Siyah Qalam original paintings are indeed housed at the Topkapi museum in Istanbul) - there doesn't appear to be much scholarship on Siyah

This is the Bibliography I give to my students. Here for your convenience: BIBLIOGRAPHY Any illustrated Shahnamehs (the British Library is a good source as well as worldwide museums and collections of Islamic art); I particularly recommend the David Collection in Copenhagen as a rich source of Isl

Students often ask me about the sources for miniature manuscript painting technique. There aren't many and only 2 major works I can think of, also heavily biased towards calligraphy (the 'higher' art form). Some excellent info here on manuscript painters and calligraphers - Minorsky's translation of