Happy New Year 2007 from Lebanon

I was thinking for the last days what to make as an e-card for the New Year and send to my friends and colleagues. Due to the sad events lately in Lebanon, I could not get any nice ideas for the coming year. So I did this fast sketch expressing what I and most of the Lebanese people are feeling. We are hoping for a better year but at the same time we are worried that it is going to be even worth then 2006. That is why the sketch is fast illustration of Lebanese buildings bombed and black smoke developing above the cityscape. If you look Closely you notice that the black smoke is composed of Arabic letters reading “Happy New Year” in Arabic. That is “Aam Saaid”. The sketch is done with black ink on a dark grey paper. After I finished the sketch I have added on it with white tip-ex a sentence hoping a white 2007 year on Lebanon and not black as the previous year.
Happy New Year.