Another step forwards, Yep great news, my artwork is now being sold in Dubai Mall, in the biggest bookshop EVA!!! Kinokuniya along with Monda Gallery have stepped up and are now supporting my art.
Bahrain was the first place I ever showcased my work 5 years ago and it feels amazing to be back home again. The show was amazing, so good to see all the old fans amongest the new faces. The show put together by an amazingly awesome young team @dallahpromotions .. Will definitely be at the 2020 #comicon .. Thank you @joker.games for my hat.. Will rocking this in the #UAE .. GOTA REPRESENT YO!
MEET TARIQ SHARIF – A MAN FOR WHOM A NECESSITY QUITE LITERALLY LED TO INVENTION This invention is the artsy kind; what does it have to do with cars? Well, the kind of art that Tariq AKA “Rick” does quite literally has no equal. This is the kind of stuff that appreciates in value and his clientele list includes names such as Simon Cowell, and Eva Longoria. So how did this bold new art form take shape? We had a little chat with Tarek to find out. Tariq, this is some really cool work! Tell us a little bit about how this began! Well it started a couple of years ago. What happened was that I wanted to use a black matt finish and a sharp bright blue for a spider man image that I was working on. For some reason, I simply couldn’t get it done to the vision that I had had in mind. I even went to all the printers in Bahrain but none of them could match what I was looking for. Then as I was printing, the paper jammed and I was like damn it, it would have been easier to cut this out! That’s wh...
Marketing Communications Professional by day, Stencil Artist, Stand up comedian, Creative Writer on the weekends and Superhero by night, we managed to sit down with the very talented and very funny Tariq ‘Rick’ Sharif and have a giggle. Tell us about your interest in Stencil art, how did it come about? I have always been known for being a creative type of person, so one day I was going through the process of printing a poster of Spiderman. The colours weren’t sharp enough, they looked good on the computer screen but the quality of the colours could never be duplicated on print, I tried all the printing presses in the kingdom but either they couldn’t match the sharpness or it was too expensive. So while a stationery store, I saw some amazing colored paper, then a light bulb went off …… so the clerk called the maintenance guy and fixed the light bulb, but then I had a great idea; why not construct the entire image with the colors available. So with a little practice with the blades and p...
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