Live Paintings

Paintings Caleb Wassell created live, in front of an audience.

Women of the Olive Grove, Jerusalem, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: women in embroidered dresses, one carrying a clay jar, walk through olive trees toward Jerusalem’s Old City and the Dome of the Rock in Palestine.
Women of the Olive Grove, Jerusalem
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Palestinian Woman of the Olive Grove, Milwaukee, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a woman in an embroidered thobe carries a basket on her head through olive trees in Palestine, with the Milwaukee skyline and Lake Michigan behind her.
Woman of the Olive Grove, Milwaukee
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
The Sound of Drums, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a kneeling man raises a Drum beside a Palestinian man seated playing the Tubla as a crowd looks on.
The Sound of Drums
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Rest Beneath the Olive Tree, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a Palestinian woman in a keffiyeh sitting beneath an olive tree in a golden field.
Rest Beneath the Olive Tree
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Under the Stripes, painting by Caleb Wassell: a crowd of Cuban people beneath a red, white, and blue Flag - Sunset.
Under the Stripes
Keffiyeh in the Land, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a keffiyeh hanging from the trunk of an olive tree in Palestine
Keffiyeh in the Land
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Hands Over His Eyes, painting by Caleb Wassell: a Palestinian man covers his face with his hands as red streams down over martyr's shroud.
Hands Over His Eyes
Courtyard Steps, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a stone stairway beside an olive tree in a sunlit old-city courtyard in Palestine.
Courtyard Steps
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Dome at Sunset, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: the Dome of the Rock under a sunset sky, framed by trees in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Dome at Sunset
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Through the Archway, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a stone archway opening onto steps, a potted olive tree, and distant hills in Palestine.
Through the Archway
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Graduation in the Rubble, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a graduate in cap and gown reading on rubble beside a bombed building in Gaza flying a Palestinian flag.
Graduation in the Rubble
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Steps Above the Village, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: stone steps beneath an olive tree overlooking Ein Karem village in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Steps Above the Village
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Siti's Embrace, painting by Caleb Wassell: an elderly grandmother in a white headscarf embracing her daughter and granddaughter, a smiling child.
Siti’s Embrace
Feed the People, Not the Pentagon, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: a hand with a vote badge pours a river down to a valley where muslim people walk, with spent shells in a dry stream.
Feed the People, Not the Pentagon
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Kobar, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: sheep grazing among olive trees and stone walls in rolling hills in Palestine.
Kobar
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
The People's Trial, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: three IDF soldiers with blank faces stand beneath nooses before a Palestinian crowd in keffiyehs.
The People’s Trial
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Poppies in the Courtyard, painting by Caleb Wassell: an olive tree in a stone courtyard with red poppies in Palestine.
Poppies in the Courtyard
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Barakah, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: Palestinian still life of an olive oil bottle, olive branches, a keffiyeh, and a key on a table.
Barakah
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Cuba es Fidel, painting by Caleb Wassell: a woman carries a newspaper-collage sign of Fidel Castro through a crowded march with Cuban flags on May Day
Cuba es Fidel
Free Where We Live, painting by Caleb Wassell: a child hugs an adult beneath a footbridge graffitied with "Free where we live."
Free Where We Live
Quds Scene, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: Jerusalem's Old City wall and the Dome of the Rock among cypress trees in Palestine.
Quds Scene
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
Passing the Olive, painting by Caleb Wassell: a weathered hand in an embroidered thobe sleeve passes a green olive into a small child's open palm against a green and blue sky.
Passing the Olive
Boy with the Dove, painting by Caleb Wassell: a smiling boy with his eyes closed, in a blue and white striped shirt, holds a white dove against green hills and a bright blue sky.
Boy with the Dove
Sand Through Chained Hands, painting by Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi: handcuffed hands hanging from a chain let sand pour through their fingers beside a keffiyeh and a lit candle.
Sand Through Chained Hands
Caleb Wassell and Abid Shalabi
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