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30 birds in 30 days 30 Birds in 30 Days: منطق الطیر The Conference of the Birds, a month-long bird parliament painting party Attar’s Mantiq al-tair or Manteq ut-teyr (Language of the Birds) of 1487 30 birds together fly free In Attar’s perfumed philosophy Wings, prayers and a poem Fragrant feat

Hello lovely students and/or potential students, I'm wondering which Elements class to run for 2022 so I thought I'd do a vote on it. It would be on Wednesdays either at 6-8pm London time, or 9-11pm London time, in September or October, please let me know which you prefer. Poll is here: https://lin

The Monsoon Lady. Seeing as it's a watery theme, we may try the following image below as well (totally optional!): Both are fairly sparse!

Some patterns are repeated and the point of the different colours is to show how different the outcomes can be when you change the variables. So there is a tazhib illumination style (this message), a grid style and a hexagonal style. The tazhib illumination style is for the Green, Red and White

We need to recognise these poisonous plants so we know what we’re dealing with. One person’s poison is another person’s medicine. Nature is always more amazing than we think. Hands up who can see a flying duck in this orchid?!

Join me for some night painting! (London time) Following on from the 7 planets, follow Prince Bahram wandering through his 7 pavilions of 7 beauties in his palace of princesses. A locked room contains their 7 portraits, one princess from each of the 7 climes, and he falls in love with… all 7 at the

The beautiful, beautiful pink lotus. A symbol of longevity in China, the national flower of India and Vietnam, national emblem of Macau and a throne for Buddha, Vishnu and Lakshmi, the sacred lotus rises from the murky mud as something beautiful from something base. It's a yoga position. It's also e

The Passion flower is the Passion of Christ. Its 10 petals are the 10 faithful apostle and its radial filaments are the Crown of Thorns. There are a lot of additional layers of symmetry to story of Jesus in this flower such as the number 3 related to the days of flowering, stigmas and its heavenly c

THE HORSE COURSE! - and a bonus unicorn Paint a proud horse in Persian miniature. These noble steeds have a variety of markings and spotting patterns which we’ll also explore in class. Courageous and loyal, Rustam’s famed lightning stallion Rakhsh helped win many battles in the Shahnameh - the Persi

ARCHITECTURE in miniature painting These have been long-awaited classes and I'm excited to start them now! In this Architecture series we'll cover Persian and Mughal architecture, both interior and exterior. Paint ice-cream pastel coloured domed fantasy buildings and spires and cities in the distanc

MAKING MINIATURE BOOKS CLASSES These materials, tools and equipment are for the Poison and Healing Books classes. You will need: A4 90gsm tracing paper (if it is a little more or less than this, eg. 80, 70, 60 or 100, 110 gsm, it doesn’t matter too much) Big bulldog clip: These are heavy duty stati

And more mandrake images for you:

At last the Architecture in Miniature Painting class series (and also the Animals ones), starting slowly. All here: https://www.vaishaliprazmariteaching.com/book-online These have been long-awaited classes and I'm excited to start them now! In this Architecture series we'll cover Persian and Mughal

These are slightly easier than the tazhib illuminated domes to prepare; essentially they are just grids. Above is the Turquoise dome, which is traditional brickwork. Make sure that the vertical lines of the bricks match each other as they skip lines, meaning they are not all over the place but neat

We need to recognise these poisonous plants so we know what we’re dealing with. One person’s poison is another person’s medicine. This is a poisonous plant. Its name itself may be related to the Greek words 'I kill' and 'man'. Though its toxicity is said to be low, don't eat it! Often depicted in Po

7 planets in 7 days: An astrological extravaganza in oil on copper Join me for some midnight painting! (London time) 11pm-12 midnight, an hour’s session painting the planets in order of their days! We’ll combine the ancient and the modern and cover them all, in their ancient order of the week and u

We continue the Architecture series with another instalment of the Mughal City - so iconic it deserves a second look. Here we play with more pastel colours (rather than the simpler, whiter architecture of the first class) and also delve into investigating the page layout and how boxes, frames and ma

A special edition May Masterclass over 3 weeks The extra element of DEW This year in miniature (In subsequent years in oils and Chinese painting) Once and not repeated (unlike the core elements classes) You’ll need an indigo or dark-coloured piece of paper pre-prepared for this class Dew is water m

A beautiful series featuring and painting women - we've been building up to this and it's ready now. May is a gentle green-blue lady, and the lady with the lamp. I've chosen ladies in different figural positions to get a comprehensive view, and the variety of activities they were engaged in, includi

Madame Iris Anthropomorph is an iris, but not as you know it. Continuing with my interest in pareidolia (seeing faces and images in rocks, clouds etc), and inspired by Walt Disney's pompous talking flowers in Alice in Wonderland, I am sure I see a dog in these irises. I also see some lords and ladie

For the 30 birds painting party, you'll need to prepare your birds in advance, trace and transfer and ink them in first, like so, below. Alternatively, scroll beneath and you'll find all my inked in birds (some done more quickly than others; all the detail will be in the painting!) and if you're in

Digitalis: poison and/or medicine for some

These are for the hexagonal domes, the Brown and the Yellow domes. There is so much you can do with hexagons! Hexagons seem to be the number one geometrical form that is done in freehand miniature painting architectural geometry. Start by drawing freehand hexagons down the central line of your dome.