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Handmade Colors -14

Malachite

Handmade colors from botanical, minerals and pigments

This large site-specific installation is based on the concept of Biophilic design and connectivity to the natural environment through direct nature, indirect nature, and space and place conditions. The installation consists of three large painting panels of landscapes with dried plants, and florals gathered from Alexandria and the Northern VA area, which have dried and preserved through the yea...

Inspired by Persian Rugs, patterns, and motifs, together with the contemporary free flow of brushes. The colors are from minerals such as Azurite and malachite, Mica, and more. The biomorphic pattern stylized nature to forms and colors that make you feel in heaven that you can not find.

This is to show the taking down of my installation." The Cycle of Nature and Time". The ritual shows the detaching act and the impermanence aspect of nature and it is part of the installation message I tried to show

In this installation, flowers and plants are my paint, and space is my canvas. By drying fresh flowers and plants, I try to show the beauty of life in death, the rhythm, harmony, and the cycle of nature and time in fresh, dried and decayed. The lack of attention to our environment and surrounding made me focus the viewers’ attention back on this cycle while celebrating its beauty. The metaphors...

Music: Loyalty Free clips from Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Rush Library) A short video based on my wall sculpture, " Bending Time III" with the concept of ephemerality in nature. The sculpture is made of natural flowers preserved in wax, pieces, and parts of clocks (Pendulum) and natural inks gotten from the flower, poems, and gold leaves on board.

Please view the tour of Saya Behnam art pieces including, wall sculptures, talisman paintings, tea, saffron, and beyond series at the Strathmore, Mansion galleries in Rockville Maryland, USA

Co-Creating art with nature, making colors from flowers, spices, and earth. Creating painting, mixed media, and sculptures. www.SayaBehnam.com Music: Loyalty Free clips from Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Rush Library)

A short video of making inks and colors from natural flowers, spices, and trees. www.SayaBehnam.com

Painting with Natural Colors

Making Black Ink From Pine Trees

Painting on Leaves

Talisman of Hard Days I

Talisman of Hard Days II

Painting with Extracted Colors from Daffodils

Saffron Egg Painting

Painting with extracted colors from Sumac tree

The Illusion of Time , A tribute to Omar Khayyam

Nothing is Everything, Wall Sculpture

Saffron color extraction for painting

Showing how to use Saffron and tea in my painting

Painting with Saffron