VCUQatar Community Classes for the Fall Semester of 2015

Interested in art? design? or something in between the two fields? Sign-up for one of the VCU community art and design classes today!

هل أنت مهتم بمجال التصميم أو الفنون أو بشيء شبيه بهما اذن سارع بالتسجيل في كورسات و دورات جامعة فيرجينيا لغير الطلاب المنتظمين اليوم

Tasmeem3ajeeb

So this is what we've been up to at the Pop-Up Market at #Tasmeem3ajeeb conference at VCUQatar university.

I've had a collection of ready to purchase Keep Calm nursery posters, hand detailed prints available upon order, and a selection of wood plaques for kids rooms and nurseries hand painted and adorned by Taffeta tailored bows, also available upon requests. The plaques could be monogramed or completely covered in a design like stripes or stars or whatever you choose, the paint and bows colours to choose from are endless!

Those items will be available to purchase or order today at the last day of the Pop-Up market at Tasmeem conference at VCUQatar and afterwards they will be available for you to order or purchase through my Instagram account NadasInteriors follow me there for all of my new products updates!

3ajeeb!

Good afternoon design and art lovers. Have you registered for Tasmeem yet? It's the biggest design conference in the region that takes places in VCUQatar and this year they are having a pop up market for students and alumni and yours truly is one of them. Register for tasmeem, come to VCUQatar and listen to some great artists and designers tell their stories, participate in the workshops, and pass by the pop market and perhaps do some shopping! see you all there

Freelancing Full-time!

I've recently decided that I'm done being an employee, done managing fit-out, and done seeing other people's designs from drawings to completion. I've decided to finally unleash the designer and interpruner inside of me and turn to designing full time and starting my Etsy store, mainly for printables for now. I'm planning a line of nurseries decor items to be put up for sale initially on Instagram and later on on Etsy.com. The decor line will be first launched at VCUQatar's design conference Tasmeem early March of this year so yet another reason for you to make it to the conference!

My last day at work and as an employee is tomorrow, it's indeed bitter sweet and quiet a change after spending the last 4.5 years working full time, I will for sure greatly miss my co-workers and the lovely working environment we had. It is time however for my artistic side to get a chance to shine and for a new chapter in my life. This will help me be true to myself, and finally do the thing that I love the most full time which is designing and working on art projects. It will also give me more control over my life and the way I run it as I become my own boss and more family quality time.

can you spot my ad in Doha Family magazine's February issue? I'm currently taking on design projects. If you would like to inquire about my services and fees please contact me via e-mail at hamad.nada@gmail.com of call me up on 55321240

أقوم حاليا باستقبال طلبات الاستشارة و التصميم, للاستفسار و الحجز الرجاء التواصل معي عن طريق الايميل hamad.nada@gmail.com أو الهاتف على 55321240

Paper Mache for Kids, Take 1

This is a kids community class I'm assisting in teaching at VCUQatar. the Teacher is Sabrina David. In this class kids are learning how to use paper mache as a material to create sculptural forms of their own liking. The kids progress during the class varied due to us having kids from a big age group 6-12 but they were all having fun and so were we!

Masks for Kids Ages 8 to 10

So once again I was a TA! :D I never expected that being in the academic side of art and working with young children would be so rewarding and so much fun. The things they say are the cutest things ever!

I assisted in a community class for kids at VCUQatar yet again. The age group was 8-10 however we ended with mostly 6 years old kids

The kids were first introduced to different masks from the world's history and were asked to choose an image and paint the same mask in the image, they were then asked to draw and paint their own mask which will afterwards be turned into a clay mask to cast a plaster mold in which they will eventually pour plaster mix, remove it from the mold and paint it/decorate it. It's amazing how free and creative younger children are as no one at that age had forced them into being structured in the same way we are structured in.

I will leave you with some of the pictures but once again you must check out VCUQatar's ongoing community classes for adults and children, they cover so many different aspects of art and design and provide courses you wouldn't be able to find anywhere else in Doha, Qatar.

I unfortunately do not have any further pictures of this class due to us being hands on with the kids after this point in finalizing the clay masks and then working with the plaster but hey stay tuned as it seems I might be doing more of these courses and you will get more pictures :)