New Art by The Unknown Artist 2017-02-19

This is a new piece just created, as before using mixed media computer graphics and oil on canvas. It is called "Bedouin Warrior Riding His War Camel." The camel Bedouin (they are divided into three types by their use of animals, camel, goat, and horse) are, or once were, a nomadic tribe roaming in, and pretty much controlling, the biggest areas of the deserts in Arabia, Sahara, and other such uninhabitable places. Now they have been reduced to being construction workers or other menial laborers, and the governments no longer permit them to be nomadic. They were once a fierce and closely knit group who were feared by the more gentle settlements surrounding the desert, which they used to raid. 

This picture depicts a remembrance of their life in that former proud time. My mother visited the Bedouins in the 1920's in one of their normal places, don't know now which one, and they liked her enough to give her a curved war dagger that was coated with a deadly poison. She gave it to me when I was quite young, but, unfortunately, it has gotten lost in my shuffles of time. Perhaps this remembrance by art will partially thank them for their kindness to my mother.