Drawings for a Free Palestine 2023 - 2025

Portraits of families in Gaza

I create hand-painted watercolor portraits portraying families in Gaza with whom I chat directly. My intention is to honor Palestinian families through portraiture, to help my friends survive, and to re-humanize them. Click on a portrait to view their family’s survival fund.

Every family fund linked to each portrait has been carefully vetted and verified by the global mutual aid collective of which I’m a part: Bees & Watermelons, or by Operation Olive Branch and Butterfly Effect Project.

Consider giving any amount regularly to a family fund.

I don’t make any money from this project. I want to help families survive. Thank you.

— Laura

“Influence the influencers” — Shahid Bolsen

I drew watercolor/acrylic ink portraits of social media influencers who continue to use their platforms to denounce oppression and genocide.
They show their care. They amplify Palestinian voices. They remind us of our humanity, which is interwoven into our fellow humankind siblings everywhere.

Each portrait links to a verified family in Gaza, where everyone is still trapped, and are able to access survival funds through material aid.

Adrienne Marie Brown for Hussam the med student and fam

Amanda Gelender for Aya & Moamen’s family

Meira Gold for Jehad Al-Masry, Nisreen, Suleiman and fam

KW Bogen for Mohammed and Kayn, 2 brother survivors

Protest art from my perspective

Drawn with acrylic ink and watercolors, 2024.

Drawings of Palestinian land, olive trees, and ancient natural beauty

I made these drawings in 2023-4.

The Al-Aqsa Flood in Oct 2023 was provoked by generations-long Israeli apartheid, colonialism, and occupation of Palestine.

The occupation is funded by US/Western Imperialists and war profiteers, who bankroll the Israeli government to continue to commit unconscionable catastrophic acts of genocide and ecocide in occupied Palestine. Settlers burn and cut down ancient olive trees to erase everything Indigenous and Native to Palestine.