At the heart of the public garden

I want to share some process of illustrating  the story for the last "Einayim" magazine. The issue subject was "garden". This time the writer Shoham Smith invited me to come with her together to look for the story. We met in Gan Meir in the heart of Tel Aviv and strolled in the garden together, trying to find the story. Shoham shared with me her ideas and I tried to sketch them up and also I've took a lot of pictures. It was fun!
Next step was making sketches in the studio:

After series of sketches the final illustration was approved. The story is about a homeless, sitting on the bench and feeling invisible for the visitors of the garden.
Here is the final illustrations.

As usual, the process is more enjoyable than seeing the finished illustration printed. But that's what's stay with as at least - the result.

Speed

Here are my illustrations for the story for the last "Einayim" magazine. The edition's subject is speed.

At the beach again

What can I say? Coming to the beach at these hot days, jumping between  waves, building sand castles with my daughter and, of course, some sketching - all this make me happy!

Old buttons shop

The last illustration I did for the column in "Hapinkas" was for a song about an old buttons shop. The hero of the column - a little boy, discover an old buttons shop, peak inside and  see very old lady over the counter, that looks a bit like a magician with boxes full of spells and magics behind her. There is something nostalgic and magic in buttons for me also. I'm still keeping at home my grandma's old wooden box full of color buttons, everyone in different shapes and materials. They remind me my childhood, and still seem to me as a box full of treasure!

sketch of the Buttons' Lady

one of the sketches

the final illustration

 I wish you to find some magic in everyday life!

Etching course - the end of the year

My etching course is ending this month. I enjoyed it very much, even if the process - slow, and planned ahead with always a bit unexpected results is opposite to my favorite art media  - spontaneous and quick sketching.

dry point

soap ground and sugar lift aquatint

sugar lift and soft ground etching

hard ground etching + watercolor

I'm already waiting for the next year!

Shared Illustration

Here is my entry to my friend's Aurore illustrated song book. The idea is to make illustration of a song on long piece of paper folded like accordion by group of artists, where each one will draw on a spread (2 or 3 pages) then pass it on to the next and so on until the book is full. Group illustration is fun, because it cause interaction and influence and an unexpected result. Promise to upload the finished book when it'll be done!   

The street hear the houses

I enjoy very much to illustrate poetic texts of the writer Iris Argaman for the column in "Hapinkas" - internet magazine on children's literature. The column tells about little boy, exploring the streets. This time the boy is scrolling the streets at night, observing every details, listening to every little rustle. I love especially the last verse:

At day
The houses hear the street,
But at night
The street hear the houses.

Tel Aviv beach on Japanese Moleskine

I have to say that Japanese Moleskine is just perfect for beach sketching! I could enter endless Tel Aviv beach with its never stopping crowd into the sketchbook without cutting the flow and even to leave more space for the next beach day!

Sketching everyday life

Some "home" sketches - everyday life is so full of interesting subjects, isn't it?

 I drew these with my new bamboo pen and ink - loving it!

Illustration and its sketch

Here are my last illustrations that was published in "Einaym" magazine.

And here are some sketches that I did as preparations - again, love them more than the final illustration.

Hope that one day I'll find the perfect combination, i just need to do more ;-)

Berlin has it all - part 3

I met in Berlin fellows urban sketches Omar and

Gorki Park - Russian restaurant with yummy borscht!

Mirchi - Singapore restaurant

Monsier Vuong - Vietnamese cuisine

Berlin has it all - part 2

Our hotel was 100m from Alexanderplarz, so we started exploring the city from this very central point of the city. But not before we've tried out some traditional sausages with sauerkraut and beer, of course!

Here are some more pages from my small sketchbook, I did them mostly while eating or waiting for something.

at the "am to pm" bar

waiting for the bus

waiting to enter to Gerhard Richter expo

getting lunch at Sony Center

Fear of dogs

Here are illustrations I did for a story about dogs fear for children's magazine "Einayim" (Eyes).

I loved the story and it was fun to illustrate it!

Blue & red - having fun

Here are a few pages from my new "imagination + observation" sketchbook - having fun with blue and red stumps and so on...

Moly-x-portrait

Moly-x is an international exchange started by Marty Harris, that brings artists from all over the planet together to exchange sketchbooks, art, stories, and friendship. Moleskine Sketchbook Portrait Party is an exchange of portraits. Each artist set off with a Moleskine in which they will draw their self-portrait. The book is then passed to the next artist who will add a self-portrait and a portrait of the book's owner. These exchanges are so fun, they causes you to interact, to influence and to be influenced by, to share, to make friends at huge distances.
Here is my entry to Chris' book. I don't really know how I've come to this image, maybe that's what Chris' cool photographs associate with for me.

Here are some more exchanges I participated at:
moly-x-18
moly-x-29
moly-x-71