At "Beta and Grega"

Beta and Grega - is the name of the coffee shop at the corner of Alenbi and Levontin streets in Tel Aviv. This area of the south of the city is full of contrasts - beautiful renovated Bauhaus buildings and crumbling walls full of graffiti, trendy coffee shops full of celebs and beggars passing through.
As you can understand - perfect place for sketching and finding stories.

it was Nathan's last day with his new beard ;)

Cowboy in Tel Aviv

Sima - woman that lives at the street, everybody knows her, asked us to draw her

Singapore - here I come!

One week is left until the beginning of the USk 2015 Symposium in Singapore, and I'm very excited toward the trip! I'm honored to be one of the instructors of the symposium, I will lead together with my friend from Denmark Ea Ejersbo a workshop dedicated to sketching people in action.
It'll be my third symposium, and even if I'm more or less prepared for this celebration of sketching, for meeting sketchers all over the world - old friends and sketchers I never met in person - you never know what surprises are waiting for you during this 3 crazy days. In addition, it's my first visit in Singapore, so I think my excitement is understandable :)
Here are fresh giveaways I collected today from the printers - looking forward to give them to my old and new friends-sketchers!

After collecting the goodies in Tel Aviv, I met my fellow sketcher Nathan and we spent a few hours by... some sketching, as you could guess!
I drew the two first sketches with my new pastel pencils - tool that still I need to learn to work with, but I love the feeling of being unsure with the new tool, it always lead me to the new directions!

I allowed to myself to relax in the last sketch with my favorite - graphite pencil!

Singapore, here I (and my sketchbook) come!

Drink&Draw sketchcrawl

I don't know who invited this perfect combination - Drink&Draw, if anybody. As my sketchbook is always in my bag, it's natural for me to pull it out at coffee shops and bars. These places are perfect for sketching - people are sunk in food and chatting and don't pay attention to the fact that they're turning to models ;)
So summer heat forced us to move our sketchcrawl to the nigh time and we met at one of the restaurants at the Jaffa flea market - bubbly and fun place.
It was a sketchcrawl in a bit different atmosphere - night lighting, a lot of noise and action around and... a bit of alcohol, which for me, personally, helps to "loosen up".
It was so fun, perfect combination, looks like we are going to come back to "Drink&Draw" from time to time.

the first sketch - before it got dark

my fellow sketchers are busy

and here some more

Home sweet home

Here are some recent sketches done without getting out of my home with my usual models - my children and their friends. When I'm sketching at home, I can choose any tools, it's easier to experiment and sometimes to try something less familiar. There is nothing like home :)