Family portraits

Here are some recent sketches of my family members - my best ultimate models ever ;-)

my charming nephews-twins eating cookies ;)

busy with iPad

my sons

BLAH - BLAH ;)  my daughter on iPhone

and now it's time for studying ;-)

Fun day in Tel Aviv

Yesterday my youngest daughter and me spent a day in Tel Aviv for errands and some fun. This city with its fast pace, mixes of styles and colors gives me always so much opportunities for sketching. It seems like I can find what to sketch in its every corner and it never bore me!
I did the first sketch at Magen Daviv Square - one of the busiest places in Tel Aviv, at the entrance to the Carmel market and Nachalat Binyamin pedestrian street. People crossing the square all the time, rushing to make their shopping, coming back with full bags, resting, waiting, eating... It's not easy to concentrate, you need to filter the reality and decide what to put on paper, otherwise you'll be lost.

We've continued to a more calm Nachalat Binyamin street and rested at on of the coffee shops, wher I did these sketches:

It was really fun day!

Beaches - my love!

Here are two sketches I did recently at two different beaches of Tel Aviv.  Sea and beaches are one of the best things that we have here, and they are perfect for sketching, always full of life and various "models".

Waiting for the ceremony

This week my oldest son had finished officer courses and we've came with our all family to the ceremony. It was exiting. And we had plenty of waiting time, which gave me the opportunity to capture some characters into my sketchbook :-)

Warming up towards Barcelona :-)

Here are some sketches I did in Tapeo - tapas bar in Tel Aviv with very much spirit of Barcelona. The place design is inspired by Gaudi architecture style with its curved lines and mosaics. We set on the bar and it was perfect point for capturing people sitting on the opposite side and sunk in their conversations.

It was good warming up towards the real thing - USk Symposium in Barcelona!

WW SketchCrawl 39 at Charles Clore Beach

We've got perfect weather and perfect site for WW SketchCrawl 39. Beaches and promenades were always my favorite sketching places. But at this season, a moment before it gets too hot, it's really perfect place!

I've started with the view on the promenade, capturing some of my fellows sketchers

After warming up, my friends and I moved to Alma Beach coffee shop and a half of the place were filled by us, sketchers ;-)

view to the beach from Alma Beach coffee shop

 

at Alma I've captured some other sketchers at work :-)

Then I get down to the beach and captured some views there:

It is always nice to see familiar faces of sketchers that coming every sketchcrawl. And it's even nicer to see newcomers that joined for the first time and rediscovered the joy of sketching after a break of many years!

Red Sea

Passover holidays are over. We've traveled a bit, here are some sketches I did in Eilat, port city at the Red Sea.

families on the holiday sitting near swimming pool - doesn't always look nice ;-)

making braids on the Eilat's promenade

Coral Beach - beautiful view on the Red Sea

It was very nice time I've spent with my family. Now back to the routine!