History
       The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is an imperial mosque in Istanbul and an icon of Ottoman architecture. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this Turkish mosque has blue tiles on the interior walls which is earning the Sultan Ahmed Mosque a colorful nickname: the Blue Mosque. Architect Sedefkâr Mehmed Ağa designed the mosque for Sultan Ahmed I, and construction lasted from 1609 to 1616. The area on which the Blue Mosque is located is known as Sultanahmet Square.

     The construction was pricey and controversial; such constructions were normally paid for with war bounty, but since he lost in the his last war, Sultan Ahmed I paid for it using funds from the treasury.

Architecture
   The Blue Mosque combines two distinct styles: traditional Islamic architecture and also Byzantine architecture. The Blue Mosque sits next to the Hagia Sophia, another Turkish landmark, and the main mosque of Istanbul until the Sultan Ahmed Mosque was completed. Many elements of the Byzantine era Hagia Sophia domes and minarets are echoed in the Blue Mosque, which historians consider the last great mosque of Ottoman architecture’s classical period. In creating the mosque, architect Sedefkâr Mehmed Ağa weaved in the teachings of his mentor Mimar Sinan.
    The mosque’s interior features about 20,000 hand-painted blue tiles in the Iznik pottery style. These Iznik tiles feature 60 unique tulip patterns. Light pours in through 260 stained glass windows.

    Three sky-high minarets stand in a parallel line to the left of the mosque, and three stand to its right. The Blue Mosque is one of only five mosques in Turkey that have six minarets. The minarets rise to 210 feet, and each has either two or three balconies. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque has a central dome surrounded by four other main domes and eight secondary domes. The central dome standing at 141 feet has 28 windows, and the semi-domes have 14.

Artwork
      The artwork consists of three layers. The first layer is the layer where we draw, because the artwork contains many details, I had to draw very carefully in this layer. A mistake I made could affect the whole composition, the second layer is the layer where we paint the objects with their first colors, and the last layer is the layer where we paint the object details.