Studio Rayyan

April 12, 2013 8:34 AM

The art of Omar Rayyan "Rayyan’s artwork includes fantasy-inspired paintings of dragons, mythological creatures set against a backdrop of seemingly ordinary buildings and people, works of abstraction such as the teapot hat on a man drinking a cup of tea in “Mists of Oolong,” and all manner of woodland creatures as one might expect to find in an animated Disney film or a children’s book of fairy tales."
posted by dhruva (13 comments total)

Wow ! Nice. Thank you.
posted by nicolin at 8:40 AM on April 12, 2013

At first, I wanted to say that the 17th-century octopus contessa dressed in her finest court attire, with her beloved squid wasn't exactly something you'd find in a Disney film, but then I remembered Ursula. Not quite the same thing, but then again, not completely different.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:46 AM on April 12, 2013

This is really neat stuff. There must be something about artists with names that match the regular expression `Omar (Kh|R)ayya(m|n)`. They're two for two so far.
posted by gurple at 8:54 AM on April 12, 2013

I hear they're also great shipbuilders - they make a hell of a yacht.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 8:57 AM on April 12, 2013

...and the reason one might expect to find him in a children's book of fairy tales is that he does, in fact, appear in children's literature. We first found him in Babybug, of all places, where he so out-classed the other artwork that it was a little embarrassing. His work is almost hypnotic, as you stare at, say, the animal fur and note just how many different tints he has incorporated.
posted by mittens at 8:58 AM on April 12, 2013

I really hate not having any talent.
posted by aramaic at 9:00 AM on April 12, 2013

Dog of the Hare = fantastic.
posted by dubold at 9:05 AM on April 12, 2013

I have no idea how these people got their turtles wedged into a tree, or why.

Besides the obvious tea.
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:31 AM on April 12, 2013

I think I may have to get a liquor cabinet just so I can adorn it with a print of Acorn Brandy.

I am also pretty certain this will cause me to embarrass myself with the exclamation "I wanna get drunk with squirrels!" sometime in the near future.
posted by bjrubble at 9:57 AM on April 12, 2013

Im so impressed, he's got Mad, mad, skills as a watercolorist! Like, Wow! His imagination with his subject is simply beautiful and inspiring!
posted by SteelDancin at 2:16 PM on April 12, 2013

reminds me a little of Wind in the Willows. good shit.
posted by legospaceman at 8:58 PM on April 12, 2013

Exactly what I was thinking, legospaceman - maybe a little Beatrix Potter too. Totally hitting the childhood nostalgia button - but then there's the woman with the squid head...
posted by Mars Saxman at 9:02 PM on April 12, 2013

These are great. Thanks, dhruva.
posted by homunculus at 4:37 PM on April 13, 2013