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"The essence of my art is to reveal the beauty of Egypt through it's ancient history"

MY ART PROJECT

Here you will find my artworks project entitled
"A Breath of Life" which is an artistic production that deals with the era of the ancient Egyptians

Amazed by the Miracle

My dear reader, please let me first talk about this painting before I start to talk about the story behind it, well, the first thing I am eager to make it clear that this piece of art have been designed & created by me and it's not reproduced, the second thing is, it took me more than two whole years to finish it (2014-2016), it also took me a lot of persistence to bring it the way I imagine it (as an information on the side line I repainted the sea in the background three times in order to get the right texture and the convincing color), the third thing is, this is the first piece of art I created in that realistic form to start a series of paintings I intend to release it through my life art project as an upcoming artist, so maybe that is why it took me a long time, the beginning is always the hardest, right ?, Now let's talk about the story behind it, it is simply about a scene for the journey of Moses exodus, my hero as you might guessed is the old man with the white and yellow clothes (he is not Moses by the way, just one of his people), that man is special in a spiritual way, according to that he chose to stop in the middle of this crowded journey to record a good look with an amazed face which reflecting the strong impact of this huge miracle around him, while everyone else was just busy with their mundane things and the idea of being safety, this is the main idea that I built on it, even when the huge miracles happen, only a few people will let it touch them deep down inside their souls, but unfortunately the majority will receive it in superficial level, hope to enjoy it .

Materials : Oil on canvas
Size : 120 cm x 60 cm
Product year : 2016
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The Death of Cleopatra

As you might guessed this painting (which is a color version of an earlier black and white version of the same work) recording the moment of Cleopatra's death, which I tried to put emotions in it as much as I could to emphasize on the strangeness of the scene and its uniqueness, which represents a special case that rarely occurs in history and it is done by people who stand away from the crowed, which gives the scene a lot of surprise and attention, I made a solid sketches because I wanted the design of this painting to come out in a certain way I imagined and felt it, I wanted the painting to come out identical to this feelings which is hard to describe it, but I used to experience it every time I saw art works or even films about the era of the ancient Egyptians, I think you dear readers know what I mean and you also tested these feelings, of course the biggest element that helped me to express this feeling is the engineering design of the place that contains the event, and the second element is the sea and its intruder appearance which I wanted to look like it is a mistake due to the air lifting the curtain, also the emergence of some plants that were famous for Egypt had an important part of this effect, also the role of furniture and clothes and accessories can't be ignored, as for the spirit of the artistic work and the relationship of the figures to each other, I think that I was somewhat influenced by the work of former art masters who dealt with this subject, but certainly I did not copy from any other art work, but I have synthesized my own mix since the first moments of compositing this art work, where I was giving the work from my imagination, enthusiasm and what I learned as much as I could which I think the viewer can observe it clearly, this work was a new challenge proud that I have accomplished and then it will became another step on the road which I learned from it, and finally I would leave you with this art work in full details and I hope you enjoy watching it as I enjoyed painting it.

Materials : Oil on canvas
Size : 100 cm x 70 cm
Product year : 10/1/2023
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Next to the city walls

The beauty of the ancient Egyptian building, that is what I wanted to show, the beauty of a panoramic view for an Egyptian Pharaonic sceneFirst of all, the main idea of this artwork is based on open view from the top of an ancient Egyptian city, or as it is sometimes said a Pharaonic city, but I want to show it the way it appearance when it was built thousands of years ago.Let's start with the main hero in this work of art (contrary to what the reader might imagine) which is the perspective in the whole painting, Yes, there are some buildings in the front of the painting that seem to pay more attention to them than others, but this is one of the axioms that the perspective forces you to do, The closer the elements are to your eyes, the larger it becomes, and therefore it deserving more attention and highlighting its details, but I did not mean that all the focus should be on those buildings, The main idea is the perspective and how I built all these buildings on it, which draws your eyes to a single point within the artwork, There is a focal point for the artwork which is the statue at the forefront, but I did not want it to capture the heroism of the artwork as well, I also wanted the viewer’s eye to see a wall that defines the end of the city, because I did not want the houses to extend to the horizon line to become infinite miniatures smallAlso I wanted the clouds to confirm the perspective with the way that I chose it to form, I mean the clouds as an element in life have many forms, and as you may have noticed I chose for the clouds to stop at some point to show the sky as an outlet that I felt was necessary to the viewer eyes who might want to come out from under the clouds.I think that the hero's assistant in this artwork is the color, the colors of the buildings, I wanted that to be as close as possible to the ancient Egyptian pallet in order to carry the viewer's feelings of nostalgia for that ancient Egyptian spirit, which was distinguished by its own colorOne of the elements that I always think about whenever I start a new artwork that I must make a conscious and reasoned decision about it is : at any time the artwork is going on? I chose for this work to be in broad daylight so that I can highlight the different colors of the buildingsAs for the most prominent thing that I experienced while working on this painting and I consider it a remarkable development (because it was not planned at the beginning of the work) it is the four birds in the front of the painting and the reason for its existence, What I noticed while I am working is that the artwork is dominated by inaction, It is full of engineering buildings, which are of course inanimate, So what is the opposite of inaction? Exactly ... Action, and I couldn't find anything in this open panoramic view suitable more than birds to bring action, so I added themFinally, I hope you enjoyed the artwork

Materials : Oil on canvas
Size : 60 cm x 80 cm
Product year : 9/ 2022
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Wake up Memphis

The main idea for this painting is an ancient Egyptian cityscape, as you can see we have a view from above in order to sending the eyes to the horizon, I also wanted to show the intimacy of the city and its small warm houses adjacent to the great temple like they were sheltering or resorting to it, I chose the time of the dawn which a time without people to create a romantic atmosphere, the swarm of pigeons and those small fumes that come out of the roofs are signs that the city has just awakened and yawning to start a new day, and the temple is standing tall next to the city as if it protects its identity, Now you may wonder, but what about the harp player ? in fact she does not take the main role in this scene as you might guessed, but she share it with the city, she sits above the city as if she were riding it, closing her eyes while she is playing on her harp make her seems like she is swimming in her own dreams sending this secret hymns to the new sunrise through the sky of her city and with all her feelings she is immersed in a daily ritual for a holy prayer she use to do it, the subject in its entirety is no more than a certain state of feelings I wanted to express, In the end, I hope you enjoyed this piece of work which took more than three hundred hours of work to complete .

Materials : Oil on canvas
Size : 100 cm x 70 cm
Product year : 10/1/2023
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At the princess's command

As the first light of dawn filled the ornate halls of the palace, the princess stood with her scribe, her hand raised with the authority of one who born to rule, She stood in the center of the room—graceful, elegant, and fully aware of the responsibility placed upon her, The walls around her bore the memories of Egypt—gods, kings, sacred symbols, and stories written for eternity.The obedient scribe sat, his reed pen resting on its papyrus scroll, his toolbox beside him, a light source behind him, and everything he needed, The princess spoke in a quiet but firm voice: "Write down the following, Send grain to the villages along the river, Let the workers repairing the temple receive what they need, Prepare gifts for those who have served Egypt faithfully, And prepare the gardens for the upcoming celebration" And so every movement of the princess's hand became a command, and every command became a line of ink.The scribe listened in silence, carefully recording every word, aware that the written command would reach beyond the palace walls, Messengers would carry it across the Nile, soldiers would protect its journey, and officials would ensure the princess's wishes were fulfilled.At her feet lay her huge dog, silently watching as her guardian, Beside her, flowers filled the room with their colors and fragrant scents, softening the awe of authority, And so, with a few words and a stroke of the pen the princess's orders will began its Strict journey across the land of Egypt.

Materials : Oil on Canvas
Size : 100 cm X 100 cm
Product year : 20/11/2025
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Fluteing to Ibis

Haven't you ever longed to take a break from the world, to isolate yourself from all the noise around you, to distance yourself from people, to sit with yourself and try to free it from all the annoying details of life? I think everyone yearns for this moment of solitude, a moment when we connect deeply with our souls, This is what happened to this Egyptian boy who sat alone on the outskirts of his city, his soul trying to commune with the melodies of his flute, Then an ibis landed before him, drawn by the flute's melody emanating from the depths of the boy soul, It approaches the Ibis in a state of spiritual communion with the boy, As always with my artworks, I wanted to showcase the beauty of ancient Egyptian civilization, but this time it was through this simple art work.

Materials : Oil on wood
Size : 60 cm x 70 cm
Product year : 15/6/2026
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The Offering Holder

First time I saw this ancient Egyptian statue she seemed to me like a fashion model walking front of audience, she dazzled me with her graceful body and beauty that you can immediately recognize despite that the philosophy of the ancient Egyptian artist did not exaggerate in showing the beauty of the human body compared to the art in the Roman civilization, for example.I couldn't resist to paint her in full details which was challenging sometimes especially when I wanted to show the movement of her legs from underneath her full patterns clothe, I chose a simple background in order to force the eye to concentrate with her, then I put those drop down strips to reduce the space around her .Now try this, put your eyes on her face and you will find it full of trust, take your eyes up to her arm and you will feel like she is caring about the offer above her head, slide your eyes down to her feet and you will feel her intrepid steps towards her target and lastly look at her stretched down arm and you will feel her determination like she is holding a weapon not just a goose, enjoy it .

Materials : Oil on Canvas
Size : 50 cm x 50 cm
Product year : 10 /2021
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OTHER ART

In this section you will find some of my artworks that are unrelated to my artistic project.

Giuliano's Head

I think that every artist has set a certain direction in art. he should similarly define a type of study or at least a training that would bring him to his chosen destination as best he could, so I start to study on line, One of my lessons was painting this portrait after the artist Rob Zeller, I remember when I was watching the advertising images of different schools of art in Europe, which was containing scenes of the students while they were drawing and painting this sculpted heads, back at that time I was not even know the name of this exercises, all I remember that when I saw the announcement of this lesson I said to myself with a lot of passion and enthusiasm this is very similar to the images for the kind of education that I wanted to learn, so I purchased the lesson and I watch it, but I noted that the final output of the artist's work has been Shorten and ignore many of the details that existed, especially when it came to the ear (I think he was doomed with a limited time to record the lesson), but for me I wanted to achieve an excellence as much as I can and I do think that my work is very accurate because a lot of viewers asked me the following question " Is this a sculpture ? " , I benefited greatly from this experience and I feel a lot of satisfaction with the final form of my work, in the end I want to thanks you for reading this and I hope you enjoy it .

Materials : Oil on Hard Paper
Size : 28 cm x 29 cm
Product year : 2017
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Purchase of slave

Why did I decide to reproduced this particular painting ? Well, this is have a little story, when I was a student in my art school I saw this painting " Purchase of slave " by Gerome, for the first time and I fall in love with it, next step guess what ? Yes, I chose to reproduce it, so I run to my tools and I started to work, then I faced a big problem (I just can't do it), or maybe it is incredibly hard in every aspects in the work process, you know, like when you do your last push up in the gym in a bad day, Yes it was that kind of hard feeling of resisting, so I just drop my brush down with a big frustration and ended the experiment, but not the dream I guess, because when I think about it right now I can see that I kept the desire somewhere in my heart, because what happened after that is years later and one by one after I owned my education tools it jumped in my mind again to reproduce this painting, so I respond to the idea and I give it a new try but this time with more confidence and enthusiasm, you know, like when you do your first push up in the gym in a good day, Yes it was that joyous, (Did you smiled right now ? hope so), anyway here it is, enjoy it .

Materials : Oil on Canvas
Size : 50 cm x 70 cm
Product year : 2016
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Patroclus

The mystery of this painting was irresistible for me, here we are watching a sitting man of complete masculinity giving us his back with his attractive tousled hair and we can't even see his left arm, which reinforces the idea of mystery, but after you know the story behind this scene, the mystery begins to dissipate.This is Patroclus, Achilles' best friend, who went to fight in his place, impersonating Achilles, he received a fatal blow in this battle and now he is facing his last moments, isolating himself in private spot away from the hustle and bustle of the battle, facing a rock wall and touching his deep deadly wound with his left hand, trying to hold on leaning on his right arm, so the scene appears for me as a brave warrior his pride prevents him from showing his weakness, even in his last moments, so he swallows the pain of death alone.

Materials : Oil on Canvas
Size : 50 cm x 70 cm
Product year : 2020
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Bargue plate 23

For you who are not familiar with Bargue plates, briefly Bargue Plates are part of a French 19th century drawing course created by Charles Bargue and Jean Leon Gerome, the course was one of the first drawing curricula ever created for the equivalent of high school students to improve their draftsmanship and visual literacy .As an admirer of 19th-century art and everything associated with it, I decided to tackle one of these plates by following an in-depth YouTube tutorial. The instructor used Plate 23—one of my personal favorites from the Bargue collection—so I embarked on a long, meticulous journey of measuring, sketching, and erasing to achieve the highest possible accuracy. If I were to describe the experience, I would say it was an incredibly slow yet enjoyable process, especially given the highly satisfying final results—as you can see here.

Materials : Charcoal on paper
Size : 27,5 cm x 22,5 cm
Product year : 2020
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About
me

I am Marwan Gamal, a visual artist and art teacher, I graduated from the Faculty of Art Education in 2003, I worked in animation for a few years, then turned to working as a visual artist and art teacher, I taught drawing to many individuals and also presented many drawing and painting lessons on social media, I am also working on my own art project entitled
"A Breath of Life" which is an artistic production that deals with the era of the ancient Egyptians, or what is called the era of "Pharaonic Egypt" I have many art collections, and I have also executed many artworks after the client's request.

about my art project

Every professional visual artist must understand the importance of having an art project that he work on and continuously develop it throughout his artistic career, keeping pace with their personal and skill development.For me I chose my own project which I name it “A Breath of life” which I chose it because I wanted to recreate the ancient Egyptian civilization that has vanished and breathe a new life into it, capturing some of the splendor of this great civilization.The project clearly embodies the ancient Egyptian spirit and attempts to explore it through the events it addresses, it seeks to explore specific moments of a unique character that naturally belonging to a distant era.I want to explore feelings that can be described as very special because of their connection to an extraordinary period and distinctive events around which many stories have been created, stories that are not entirely certain, these stories bear the name of people around whom many legends have been woven due to the scarcity of information and the multitude of theories about them.Through this project I try to recreate the appropriate on the visual one, which will bring with it feelings of wonder and astonishment, and many feelings of curiosity and inquiry about what is happening in these scenes presented to him, I want to bring in an energy of emotions that I can only describe as very simple, deep, and special at the same time, I can only describe them as purely Egyptian feelings.

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