IAmA Oil painting artist who painted the first Paranoma painting in my country, Kuwait! Ask me anything!

So if this is the first panoramic painting, could you elaborate why nobody else has done this before in your country? Is this an art style that is not pleasing or well-known? Are there other factors playing here that I'm missing?

Paranomic paintings aren't well known throughout Kuwait, some Kuwaitis of the current generation aren't aware of oil painting art nowadays especially paranomic paintings!

Me and my historian friend decided to make a visualization of Kuwait's past or first border, but doing it on a normal canvas won't be a good idea, we then decided to make it on a paranomic canvas for it to fit all interesting and historic details of Kuwait's ancient geography.

I'm guessing not many artists knew about paranomic art and surprisingly I was the first to paint a paranomic painting thanks to my historian friend who helped me on visualizing Kuwait back then.

Good question by the way, that got me thinking.

Because your people are backwards and homophobic lol not very creative. You literally imprison your gay citizens and are about half a thousand years into the past with your barbarism. How does it feel being introduced to art for the first time and knowing most of it has been created and shaped by the very people your society oppresses?

Why would you bring that up? We're all having a friendly conversation and Q&A. I'm here to answer some questions about art, oil painting, etc. and you're here to somehow expose me? I'm not here to discuss about this, I did not mention any hatred towards LGBT, I dont have any problems with any Gay people, I'm just okay with them I have nothing to interfere with them. The only topic(s) I want to discuss about is Art and my country Kuwait. Not the laws of Kuwait, not the hate towards LGBT, and definitely not negativity.

Have a good day and take care.

I thought you meant like a 360° painting, this one near my house. you should make one of those next! Ow a question.. Was researching population growth and saw Kuwait had some of the largest families of any wealthy country. Is that something you see in daily life and why do you think that is?

I might consider doing a 180 degrees painting, a 360 degrees one sure sounds challenging and a lot of work, it's my first time hearing about it too thanks for suggesting it! But I did paint many 3D art which you may like you can check them out here these are very old so keep that mind.

And yes, you have done your research well my friend! There are many large families and my family are one of them! I'm the 13th sibling, plus they youngest one in the family. I also do see large families frequently but no everyday, I'm usually trapped in my cave, my office.

How do you get the motivation to do your thing over a long time ?

And how did you start painting and would you draw in other art styles,for example grafitti?

I started painting and experiencing art since my childhood back then in different schools. Later on, I went to the College of Education Specializing Arts, henceforth, I started working on my first exhibition "Escape from Reality" in 2002.

I lived in Kuwait for 5 years :) I still have many friends there Is there a gallery where your works are exhibited? Did they make the avenues even bigger now?

Yes there are, there were many galleries where I've hosted my exhibits there, and one of them is the Museum of Modern Art, it was where I hosted one of my biggest exhibit: "The Journey".

And yes, the avenues is much bigger now, with an additional Grand Avenue, it's even bigger now with much more shops, restaurants, etc.

What's your favorite food? Have you ever painted this food?

Pretty strange and funny question haha! My favorite type of food is Indian food, the spices and taste to it are delicious!

I have never painted any Indian food before, however, I did paint a very old painting where there are bunch of bread in a basket in the middle of nowhere!

Three questions:

1. What is your favourite painting in terms of conveying/portraying a metaphor/meaning?

2. What is the most disturbing painting you have ever painted?

3. What is the most disturbing painting you have ever seen?

1. My favorite meaningful painting for sure is this one , sorry for the bad quality since I have painted this painting since 2002, it was also featured in the exhibition: "Escape from Reality".

2. The most disturbing (and also disgusting) painting I've painted so far.. is definitely this one

3. The most disturbing painting I have ever seen has got to be this one, https://imgur.com/a/EO6ej

It also has a very disturbing meaning and backstory, it is pretty creepy and strange in my honest opinion.

Pretty awesome paintings you have.

How did you know that you wanted to paint when you grew up and how supportive were your family about it?

Thank you kindly!

Art is very special to me, it relaxes the human mind and body and prevents the person from feeling like a failure, art encourages people to draw more and keep going, it shows them that they're a talented and gifted person, so I kept going. The amount of criticism and support I got was amazing, everyone liked my skills and art so therefore it motivated me to become an artist and paint many unique, creative paintings.

My family did not enjoy what I was doing at first, since they were extremely careful about me and religious, but later on my family loved what I was doing, sure I stayed inside painting all day they didn't liked that but later they loved what I was doing, I painted them and painted many things that they requested me to paint. I became known in my country, they supported me from the beginning till to this day and were very proud of me.

What is your favorite art gallery in Kuwait?

The M Gallery or something like that, it has been a while since I last visited it, it has a lot of unique and strangely astonishing paintings, sculptures and mostly art and I loved it! I highly recommend all art lovers to visit that gallery is it wonderful!

AM Art & Design Gallery?

I suppose so, let me check it's been a while since I've last heard of it again.

Thanks for your time! What subject matter are you interested in exploring? For example, many contemporary artists still like to explore idealized themes from history or fantasy, or hope to travel and paint landscapes in places they have not visited before- is that something that interests you?

Are there subjects that you are likely not to explore, perhaps because of cultural or societal stigma or just a lack of interest? Even in America there is plenty of debate over topics that are considered too obscene or offensive to portray as "art".

Thank you again- I look forward to seeing more of your art in the future :)

Good question!

I'm interested in imaginary and fantasy art or imagery. It helps me be calm and creative, in fact, most of my art paintings are fantasy and imaginary, especially these paintings.

There is nothing that I wouldn't paint or explore unless it's a negative topic of course, such as racism, horrible visuals of execution, the destruction of nature and many more, I am not that type of person at all.

Where do you buy supplies? I assume Michaels and dick blick aren't near by. Also, do you have anything on under your outfit?

It's really not a big deal to me where I buy my brushes, I buy it from any nearby stores, Im not into those kind of fancy brushes.

When it comes to oil paint I become very picky with those stuff, sadly there aren't many in Kuwait but I buy them from Amazon or Ebay (mostly Ebay though haha!) any oil paint works as long as its not thick, I'm comfortable with what I'm painting.

Your works are great. If you have a chance a meet with legendary painter, who will he/she ?

Thank you!

I really loved Leonardo Da Vinci's work, especially the famous and known the Mona Lisa painting! But sadly he passed away a long time ago.

Do you plan on coming to USA to do any art shows anytime?

Probably, depends on what exhibit I'm going to do about next.

I've been to India, China and Thailand for different exhibits, so I might give USA a try!

Is the guy standing next to you in this picture a monster? Because he looks like he might be, if I had to ID him from that picture, I'd go with Nosferatu.

Haha! Good one, he might be a monster!

But in all seriousness, he is a great guy and all, he helped me and accepted to hang my paranoma painting in his art gallery!

Oil painting? So everything is black and white?

That is charcoal painting I believe! Oil painting has much more vibrant colors.

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Thank you kindly!

My next project will be the Hiroshima exhibit! I will paint many paintings and imaginary art such as the nuke with faces on it, it is basically personified.

I will also explain about Hiroshima's history using my imaginary paintings!

Why don't you let women drive?

That is in Saudia and not in Kuwait, all women have rights to drive cars here.