I am a free-lance artist and a graphic designer. I have a home based studio, which gives me the opportunity to visualize, explore and create my artwork. I earned a masters degree in Arts from the Punjab University, Pakistan in 1976. My website shows some of my earlier work which is done in oils, water colors, pastels and pencils. After my marriage, I came to the United States and spent full time raising my 3 daughters who are all born in the USA. When my youngest one turned five, I decided to go back to college. I took some art and design courses and in 1998 successfully completed my masters in Graphic Design from the American University.
I gain inspiration from nature and love to draw flowers, plants, trees, animals, butterflies, people, etc. In my flower series, the drawings are done in colored pencils of flowers that were given to me by my friends or family. This media gives me the opportunity to capture detail, texture and form in the flowers. Each composition begins with many preliminary sketches and the layout of each artwork is drawn on paper in its original size. Then, the flowers are individually scanned into Photoshop and the whole composition is digitally reproduced. I use both the Photoshop and Illustrator programs to create a design product that would be pleasing and also colorful.
Since, we moved to Lakelands, Gaithersburg I have started painting on canvas in acrylics. My neighborhood has inspired me to paint scenes from my neighborhood. I painted the heavy snowfall as seen from my window, scenes from a nearby lake, the farmers market and other scenes. You will see them posted on my website in the near future.