Archive for February, 2008

New work

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

New work at Novo furniture, like an iced cake of creamy metallic frosting! Frenetic Beach is definitely Dubai inspired with it’s turquoise water and vivid color.

Jericho BoatsJericho Boats 44″x30″ at Novo Furniture

Frenetic Beach by Karen Lorena Parker

Frenetic Beach 48″x28″

Dubai pictures and statistics
on the buildings, renderings and plans.

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1990

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2003

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2007

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All of this was built in the last 5 years, including the island that looks like a palm tree.
Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world’s cranes.

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The Dubai Waterfront. When completed it will become the largest waterfront development in the world.


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The Palm Islands in Dubai. New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands. They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from space. Three of these Palms will be made with the last one being the largest of them all.

Upon completion, the resort will have 2,000 villas, 40 luxury hotels, shopping centers, movie theaters, and many other facilities. It is expected to support a population of approximately 500,000 people. It is advertised as being visible from the moon.


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The World Islands. 300 artificially created islands in the shape of the world. Each island will have an estimated cost of $25-30 million.

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The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai. The worlds tallest hotel. Considered the only ‘7 star’ hotel and the most luxurious hotel in the world. It stands on an artificial island in the sea.

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Hydropolis, the world’s first underwater hotel. Entirely built in Germany and then assembled in Dubai, it is scheduled to be completed by 2009 after many delays.

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The Burj Dubai. Construction began in 2005 and is expected to be complete by 2008. At an estimated height of over 800 meters, it will easily be world’s tallest building when finished. It will be almost 40% taller than the the current tallest building, the Taipei 101.

This is what downtown Dubai will look like around 2008-2009. More than 140 stories of the Burj Dubai have already been completed. It is already the worlds tallest man made structure and it is still not scheduled to be completed for at least another year.

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The Al Burj. This will be the centerpiece of the Dubai Waterfront. Once completed it will take over the title of the tallest structure in the world from the Burj Dubai.

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Recently it was announced that the final height of this tower will be 1200 meters. That would make it more than 30% taller than the Burj Dubai and three times as tall as the Empire State Building.

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The Burj al Alam, or The World Tower. Upon completion it will rank as the world’s highest hotel. It is expected to be finished by 2009. At 480 meters it will only be 28 meters shorter than the Taipei 101.

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The Trump International Hotel & Tower, which will be the centerpiece of one of the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah.
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Dubailand. Currently, the largest amusement park collection in the world is Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, which is also the largest single-site employer in the United states with 58,000 employees. Dubailand will be twice the size.

Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet (107 miles^2) at an estimated $20 billion price tag. The site will include a purported 45 mega projects and 200 hundred other smaller projects.

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Dubai Sports City. A huge collection of sports arenas located in Dubailand.


Currently, the Walt Disney World Resort is the #1 tourist destination in the world. Once fully completed, Dubailand will easily take over that title since it is expected to attract 200,000 visitors daily.

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The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings when finished. It will be home to some of the tallest residential structures in the world. The completed first phase of the project is shown. Most of the other high rise buildings will be finished by 2009-2010.


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The Dubai Mall will be the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of shopping and around 1000 stores. It will be completed in 2008.

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Ski Dubai, which is already open, is the largest indoor skiing facility in the world. This is a rendered image of another future indoor skiing facility that is being planned.

Some of the tallest buildings in the world, such as Ocean Heights and The Princess Tower, which will be the largest residential building in the world at over a 100 stories, will line the Dubai Marina.

The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if construction ever gets under way.
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The Dubai Metro system, once completed, will become the largest fully automated rail system in the world.
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The Dubai World Central International Airport will become the largest airport in size when it is completed. It will also eventually become the busiest airport in the world, based on passenger volume.
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There are more construction workers in Dubai than there are actual citizens.

Style

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

A client of mine fell in love with Autumn Storm that had sold. I invited him to see some other paintings in the series but nothing caught him the same as that original painting. It could have been the time in his life, or it could have been the strokes.

He brought to my attention, my varying strokes. When i did Autumn Storm, it was a result of painting grey toned paintings for interior designers. My psyche needed some color and I painted Autumn Storm very quickly. But the timing of Autumn Storm, came from my Cloudscape series. Soft, billowing storm clouds that were built up in layers of color. Swooshy strokes that had subtle tones and lots of layers.

Autumn Storm has been a big favorite for many clients that appreciate Red as much as I do. I have another one that will be interesting to compare one day. If the collection is ever shown side by side.

Autumn Storm by Karen Parker
Autumn Storm 2005

AUTUMN KALEIDOSCOPE DETAIL BY KAREN LORENA PARKER
Autumn Kaleidoscope Detail on 8 foot painting

Autumn Storm Tree by Karen Parker
Autumn Storm Tree II
I need to get a better scan of it, as this has some glare and not as clear as the other one.

Richmond Winter Festival

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Karen Parker with her paintings at the Richmond Winter Festival

Artist Karen Lorena Parker with Councillor McNulty

Had a wonderful time at the Richmond Winter Festival Exhibition. An incredible night as David Usher performed at City Hall. It will only get better next year!