Rainy Sutarday in an art museum

Sketchcrawl in Neve Zedek

Last Saturday was 4th Sketchcrawl of Israel Urban Sketchers. This time we met in Neve Zedek, beautiful old area of Tel Aviv. The neighborhood, with its narrow streets, beautiful old buildings and strolling people  was too perfect for sketching, so it took me a hour to settle myself and start sketching.

corner of Lilenblum and Pines, opposite to old cinema "Eden"

 

sketching sketches ;-)

last 10 minutes bfore our group met near Suzzan Dellal center

so fun to sketch together!

When 5 months ago I've initiated these Sketchcawls, I had no idea if it'll be any followers, besides some of my friends. I'm so happy to see that every sketchcawl there are new sketchers that joining us, and "veteran" sketchers, that continuing to come again and again.There are new correspondents that joining our group blog, each one have his  own style and own stories. Visit us and see Israel, one drawing at a time!

Food for thought

Yesterday was an opening of an exhibition organized by Israel Association of Illustrators, in which I took a part. The subject of the exhibition is food - very wide subject, so is the variety of styles and interpretations in illustrators works.
Here are my works, kind of placemates, decorated by sketches of people eating:

Actually, that's what I often do - sketching people eating near me directly on my placemat ;-)

The exhibition will be on until 17/03 in Yad Lebanim Ra'anana.

Sketching my family

Lucky me, I don't need to go far for subjects of my sketches. I always have my family near me ;-)

Of course, I do love to go out for sketching as well. Waiting for this Saturday for our local USk branch Sketchcrawl. If you're in Israel - come to sketch with us! More details here .

Memories from Lisbon

I'm very excited - today I've got my copy of "Urban Sketchers in Lisbon" - the book that put together amazing experience 2nd Urban Sketchers Symposium. What a memories! I'm turning pages of the book and feeling again the energies of the symposium - sketching among more than 200 sketchers from all over the world. Finally meeting in person the people behind the sketches! Exploring together the beautiful city of Lisbon, chatting, eating together, switching tools and sketchbooks and, of course, sketching, sketching and sketching...

the book and my Lisbon sketchbook, opened on one of the sketches which is featured in the book.

The beautiful cover is a sketch of  Largo Camões by Frank Ching and the book is in Portuguese and English. It is available on amazon. 

Speaking about memories - here you can see more my sketches and some photos from the Symposium:

Urban Sketching Symposium Lisbon 2011

In these days we're waiting for an official announcement about the 3rd Symposium. Hope I'll be able to come this year again!
Come to Urban Sketchers blog for information or if you want "to see the world - one drawing at a time".

"Tents' Protest" - the process of illustration

I wanted to share here my process of illustrating an article for children's magazine "Einayim".
My experience in an illustration area isn't very large, every time I work on illustration I feel like I'm inventing myself again and again.
The article was about so called “social justice revolution”, which happened in Israel during the last summer.
My first references for the illustration was some sketches I drew earlier at the "tent city" at Rothschild:

I also found some photographs

I did the pencil sketch and started to work on final illustration, trying to keep the spirit of spontaneous sketches

I liked it during the process, but at the end... the spontaneous feeling is disappeared. Maybe I should stop earlier ;-)

final illustration in the magazine - click on it for a bigger size!

I would love hear about your process! What are your references, steps, techniques, feelings and etc.

Falafel!

One of the first things my youngest daughter and me did when we came back from the vacation was visiting local falafel shop. After all that delicious french dishes nothing bring you back better than these crispy balls with hummus and pickles. Yummy!