2.1.08

 

Nubian House Door


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 12:48

19.11.07

 

Green Door


Watercolour and crayon
40cm x 30 cm

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 09:17

24.10.07

 

Fishing Boats









Alexandria, Egypt

Watercoulor
45 cm x 60 cm

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 10:24

6.10.07

 

Morning Glory Collection







Watercolour

45cm x 33cm

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 17:32

25.9.07

 

Thornbury Harbour


Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada
Watercolour 36 cm x 27 cm




Here I am hard at work painting the habour.




We later went fishing and did not
have to invent a fish story!
Nice salmon netted by Aziz.

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 21:48

2.9.07

 

El Hakim Winter Home





Gouna, Red Sea, Egypt
Watercoulour,
22 cm x 25 cm

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 11:28

13.8.07

 

Pennsylvania Landscape



I was commissioned by an American lady to paint this beautiful landscape around her Pennsylvania residence.


It took 6 days to complete. This is how it looked on day 2.

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 09:32

12.5.07

 

Corner Store


Cairo, Egypt
Watercolour
2007

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 10:26

1.5.07

 

Drip Dry



2007, Toronto , Canada

Watercolour, 22cm x33cm

A study in free and watery brush strokes


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 11:44

17.4.07

 

Architectural Detail




2007, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour

40cm x 60cm



Rendering of the "stalactites" on the west wall of the Sultan Baybars mausoleum.



# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 15:03
 

Sheesha






2007,

medium: Watercolour

28cm x 36cm

Ladies enjoying their sheeshas (water pipes).

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 14:35

24.1.07

 

Bullmoose




2007, Algonquin Park, Ontario,
medium: watercolour



This painting was inspired by a photo taken by my sons during their adventurous trip in the wild. Luckily, the moose did not charge!


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 11:19

14.1.07

 

Palm Trees

2007, Near Aswan, Egypt
medium: watercolour


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 11:27

28.12.06

 

View From Kitchen Window


2006, Brittany, France
medium: watercolour
size: 40cm x 35cm


This painting portrays the view of the guest house from the kitchen window of Laila's vacation home, an old converted mill. It has become customary for us to spend summer vacations with her. After seeing this, she created her own "patchwork" interpretation.(a cloth cut-and-sew medium she has mastered) .

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 20:32
 

Hypostyle Hall,Temple of Karnak




2006, Upper Egypt
medium: watercolour
Size: 40cm x 60cm

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 17:10

27.12.06

 

Gamal el Dine Adh-Dhabi House



2006, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 18:38
 

Grant


2006 , Wasaga Beach, Ontario
medium: watercolour

Size: 25cm x 30cm

My friend Rafik's old sleepy dog


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 18:37
 

Timber Bridge


2006, Lighthouse Point

Collingwood, Ontario

medium: watercolour


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 18:35

31.1.06

 

Gouna Marina

2006, Gouna , Red Sea
medium: watercolour
size: 35cm x 60cm
Many fish stories have emerged from Gerard's boat

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 11:18

19.1.06

 

Silverware Bazar


2006, Cairo

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 20:20

14.1.06

 

Nile Village

2006, along the River Nile, Egypt
medium: watercolour

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 11:01

31.12.05

 

Majorca Village



2005, Campanet, Spain

View from Paula's window

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 14:59

28.12.05

 

Side Entrance

Side entrance to my cousin's vacation residence


2005, Brittany, France.
medium: pencil and watercolour
25cm x 30cm







# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 21:25

16.1.05

 

Angry Sea


2004, Atlantic Canada
medium: watercolour

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 21:59

31.12.04

 

Very Cold



2004, Georgian Bay, Canada

medium: watercolour

Cold, cold day in the northern wilderness.


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 11:10

30.12.04

 

The Courtyard


2004, Old Cairo
medium: watercolour
A typical Ottoman house with an open courtyard.

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 12:48
 

El Hara


2005, Old Cairo
medium: watercolour
A busy lane in a mixed residential, commercial district

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 12:39

28.12.04

 

Brittany Home

2004, Brittany, France
medium: pencil
size: 25cm x 30cm


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 21:37

14.1.04

 

Hand Etude





# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 21:53

4.1.04

 

Resort Condo






The sketch as developed in first day, and the seventh day

2004, Soukhna, Red Sea

medium: pencil

View of neighbour's place, from Malak's condo deck

# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 21:49

28.12.02

 

Red Sea View


2002, Gouna
Medium: pencil and watercolour
size: 30cm x 30 cm
This is a sketch looking out of my brother's chalet







# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 20:28

14.1.92

 

African Mask



1992, Niger

medium: pencil

During my travels in Africa, I picked up and sketched this Nigerian witchdoctor mask .


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 10:28

27.12.84

 

Toronto City Hall


1984, Toronto, Canada

Medium: pencil

View from the 42nd floor of the First Canadian Place office tower


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 18:33

27.12.79

 

View of Old Cairo


1979, Cairo, Egypt

artist: Mohsen Rifaat

medium: felt-tip pen


# posted by Mohsen Rifaat @ 18:32

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