Linda Dalal Sawaya's Art News
2015 SPRING NEWS!
MORE MANDALAS!
A season of growth, color, blossoms, and new beginnings: The new year is getting off to a vibrant start! My mandala painting, left, is a commission just completed themed transforming darkness into light. A transformative process and a blessing to work on for a wonderful client, who is a healer who will hang the painting in her treatment room. It’s acrylic paint on canvas and is 24 inches square. More commissions are welcome!
PLAYING WITH PAINT
After the rather tightly controlled mandala paintings I’ve been making, I found it refreshing to just play with some new techniques I learned in several art workshops that I recently took. It was fun and inspiring trying out new ways of working with images, the canvas, color, and composition. This small 8 inch square painting was done in a couple of hours and given away at an art exchange with acrylic and even metallic paint! Will definitely have to make more of these! How do you like it?
RECYCLED RAIN PROJECT
The Recycled Rain Project invited 25 artists to collect and use rainwater to make paintings for an exhibition opening in May, 2015. I’m delighted to have been selected again this year to participate and will create a new water-themed mandala. Last year’s WATER BLESSING MANDALA, shown at left, sold in the first hour of opening night. I look forward to making a new painting at this time when water shortages are profound. Please contact me if you’d like to order a print. Process photos on this painting are on my art blog site!
ALICE’S KITCHEN COOKBOOK IN LEBANON and in the NEWS—GOLOCAL.PDX!
Last Fall I was blessed to spend a month in Lebanon, and am pleased to announce that Alice’s Kitchen is being sold in two locations in Beirut and in Byblos’ ancient souk, the place where the word “book” was born! Edde Yard’s lovely bookstore, Gibran’s Lebanon, is shown at right with Alice’s Kitchen in the window! Lots of my trip photos were posted to Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook if you’d like to view them there. Someday, I’ll get them onto my blogs! Probably took a thousand photos! And what an amazing and wonderful journey it was. My first time since I took mama there in 1998!
Just this week I have been welcomed to write about seasonal Mediterranean/Lebanese cooking in a new local online publication called GoLocal.PDX. Check out my first article this week on five ways to use the lush Italian parsley flourishing right now in our spring gardens for tabbouli (pictured below), fattoush, Lebanese potato or cabbage salads, and Lebanese omelettes!
Alice’s Kitchen cookbook website has a new design with the blog a part of the new site. please visit and stay in touch! happy cooking!
ALICE’S KITCHEN is authentic Lebanese home cooking at its best! An immigrant family cookbook, with more than 125 original recipes, from how to pick and cure olives to how to bake pocket bread. Here are generations of recipes passed down from mother to daughter in the mountain village of Douma, overlooking the Mediterranean, brought to America by Grandmother Dalal and Mother Alice, and then passed on to Linda. In ALICE’S KITCHEN, Linda presents their recipes, along with family stories, as a culinary gift to you of Lebanese cuisine-one of the healthiest on the planet.
Traditional, home style Lebanese recipes that include quick, familiar vegetarian favorites such as hommous, tabbouli, baba gannouj and many other fantastic and authentic salads, rice, and vegetable entrees. Learn to create Lebanese ice cream and pastries, such as heavenly, light baklawe, where one piece is never enough. Tantalizing, traditional lamb and rice dishes keep company with rolled grape leaves, soups, and appetizers in this expansive collection. Sawaya provides excellent recipes seasoned with a generous amount of memoir.