Azerbaijan Paint by Numbers Digital | 5 Levels 16-96 Colors | Svg Pdf Png Procreate | Sheki Khan Palace Autumn Plane Trees Printable PBN KIT

🎨🍂 Paint a Persian palace beneath 500-year-old plane trees in autumn fire — Sheki Khan Palace with plane trees ablaze The extraordinary 1797 Persian-Islamic palace with stunning two-storey warm terracotta and cream stone facade covered in elaborate hand-painted floral frescoes rising against a deep cobalt sky. Warm terracotta and cream stone facade glowing warm coral in the afternoon light. Elaborate warm gold and cobalt Persian floral fresco patterns catching brilliant afternoon light. Elegant warm cream carved wooden mashrabiya balcony. The two ancient massive 500-year-old plane trees in the palace courtyard blazing brilliant crimson red, mustard yellow and warm amber autumn colour framing the composition. Warm cobblestone Sheki Khan Palace courtyard scattered with warm fallen autumn leaves. Warm silhouettes of Azerbaijani visitors in traditional dress admiring the palace. Brilliant shebeke stained glass windows catching afternoon light. Distant snow-capped Caucasus foothills in warm coral silhouette. Sheki Palace in autumn is Azerbaijan at its most soulful and most sacred — a Silk Road palace beneath trees older than the palace itself, and one of the finest examples of Persian palatial architecture surviving anywhere. And it is your painting. Walk into the courtyard. Look up at trees older than the walls. Let the brush find the crimson. Paint it on your iPad or print it and paint on canvas — both are included. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 WHAT YOU GET ✔️ 5 difficulty levels — 16, 24, 48, 72 and 96 colors — beginner to expert in one download ✔️ 3 outline versions — numbered, blank and preview ✔️ SVG + PDF + PNG file formats — print at any size without blurring ✔️ Procreate colour swatches — drop the palette straight into your iPad ✔️ HEX-coded colour palette on every page ✔️ Instant digital download — nothing shipped ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY The Palace of Sheki Khans (Şəki Xan Sarayı) stands in the historic Silk Road caravan town of Sheki in northwestern Azerbaijan, in the foothills of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, approximately 380 kilometres northwest of Baku. Sheki has been continuously inhabited for over 2,700 years and served as a critical waystation on the northern branch of the Silk Road, connecting the Caspian Sea trade routes with the Georgian and Anatolian markets. The city rose to particular prominence in the 18th century when the Sheki Khanate emerged as one of the most powerful independent Turkic-Muslim khanates in the eastern Caucasus following the collapse of Persian Safavid rule in the region. The Palace of Sheki Khans was constructed in 1797 by Muhammad Hasan Khan, the last powerful independent ruler of the Sheki Khanate. The palace served as the Khan's summer residence and formal reception hall (the Khan's main year-round palace was located separately in the citadel). Muhammad Hasan Khan commissioned the palace to serve as a demonstration of the artistic sophistication and independent political power of the Sheki Khanate at the very moment when Persian and Russian imperial pressures were closing in on the small independent Muslim states of the Caucasus. Just 25 years after the palace was completed, in 1819, the Sheki Khanate was formally annexed by the Russian Empire — but the palace has been preserved almost exactly as it stood in 1797. The palace is a compact two-storey rectangular building measuring approximately 32 metres long by 8.5 metres wide, containing six rooms — two main reception halls on the ground floor, and four smaller private rooms and a treasury on the upper floor. The exterior of the palace is covered in a spectacular hand-painted mural programme of Persian-influenced floral fresco motifs — dense fields of crimson pomegranate flowers, warm gold Persian miniature landscapes, elaborate cobalt-blue and gold arabesque geometric patterns, and delicate calligraphic inscriptions from Persian poetry — that has survived remarkably intact for over 225 years. The most extraordinary feature of the palace, however, is on the interior. The main reception hall on the ground floor features a spectacular window wall made entirely of the famous local Sheki craft tradition called "shebeke." Shebeke is a specialised form of stained glass mosaic in which thousands of individually hand-cut coloured glass pieces — in brilliant crimson red, cobalt blue, warm emerald green, canary yellow and warm coral pink — are held together entirely by an intricate wooden geometric lattice frame without a single nail, screw, glue, adhesive, or metal binding of any kind. Each of the palace's main shebeke window walls contains approximately 5,000 individual pieces of coloured glass, held together entirely by pressure-fitted carved wood. The Sheki shebeke tradition dates back to the 8th century and is unique to this region of Azerbaijan — the specialised training in geometric wood carving and stained glass fitting is passed down through a small number of master craftsman families in Sheki. Only about a dozen master shebeke craftsmen still practice the tradition today, and each intricate window wall takes months of specialised work to design and construct. The palace and its surrounding historic Sheki old town were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019 as "the Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan's Palace." The two ancient massive plane trees (Platanus orientalis) that grow in the front courtyard of the palace are historically documented to be at least 500 years old, meaning they were mature trees over 200 years old at the time the palace itself was built in 1797. Every autumn between October and mid-November, these massive plane trees drop tens of thousands of enormous hand-shaped leaves in brilliant crimson red, mustard yellow, warm amber and molten orange onto the warm cobblestone courtyard — creating one of the most beautiful autumn landscape scenes in the entire South Caucasus. Standing beneath the plane trees at 3 PM on a late October afternoon, watching warm crimson leaves fall onto ground where Muslim khans have entertained Silk Road merchants for 225 years, is one of the most soulful autumn experiences in the entire Caucasus region. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📥 HOW IT WORKS 1. Buy → your files are ready to download instantly (nothing is shipped) 2. Pick your difficulty level and your favorite outline version 3. Print it at home or at a copy shop — or load it onto your iPad in Procreate or any art app 4. Match each number to the HEX palette and paint section by section 5. Step back, admire it, frame it, and show it off 🍂 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 PERFECT FOR - Azerbaijani-born, Azerbaijani-raised or Caucasus diaspora anywhere in the world - Anyone who has visited Sheki — or dreams of it - Baku, Ganja, Sheki and greater Azerbaijani locals - A meaningful gift for a Persian art collector, an autumn traveller, a stained-glass enthusiast, or a bucket-list explorer - Fans of Persian architecture, shebeke craftsmanship and Silk Road history - Anyone building a Silk Road, Persian, or autumn-themed wall - Screen-free relaxation, mindfulness & art therapy - iPad artists who want a warm, opulent Procreate project with a legendary silhouette ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖌️ WANT YOUR OWN CUSTOM PAINTING? Got a favorite view, a hometown, or a place that means something to you? Message me — I turn favorite places and photos into custom paint-by-numbers, made just for you. 📸 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ QUICK ANSWERS - Is anything shipped? No — this is an instant digital download. - Can I print it? Yes, at home or any print shop. The SVG scales to large posters without blurring. - Do I need special software? No. Print and paint by hand, or open the files in Procreate / any art app on iPad. - Can I sell my finished painting? It's for personal use only — please don't resell or redistribute the files. ⚖️ TERMS — For personal use only. This is a digital download; no physical product will be shipped. Colors may vary slightly between screens and printers. You may not resell, redistribute, share, or use these files commercially. All designs are © Journey Engine, all rights reserved. Thanks for supporting a small studio 💛 — Journey Engine DOWNLOAD ACCESS After payment is confirmed, your download link is available in My library and your order email. Your purchase remains in your account for future access.