Sketches from the beach

There is a midst of summer and an air is hardly moving. People are hiding in an air conditioned apartments or at beaches. 

I love sea in every weather, beaches always inspire me, tell me interesting stories, refresh and stir!

Here are some sketches from the last Saturday at the beach:  

Delicatessen

Today my friend Hagit and I discovered a great place - Delicatessen, at Yehuda Halevy. The place is a restaurant, delicatessen, bakery, flower shop and much more...  It was real fun, and we couldn't, of course, not to sketch a bit. The view from the balcony was a classic urban, so I decided to to catch it

I love Tel Aviv - this city is always full of surprises and hidden corners!

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!

Goodbye sketchcrawl on the beach

Yesterday my friend Doron and I met up with our friend Aurore, who's leaving us for the whole summer to France (poor girl :-)) We set our meting at the Charles Clore (MantaRay) Beach and after refreshing ourselves in soft Mediterranean waters we dried out with sketchbooks in the hands :-)

Then we moved to Alma Beach bar, at the back of the fancy MantaRay restaurant, continuing chatting and sketching.

group of chatting and drinking girls - the perfect spot!

two guys with a long hair and the view to the beach and old Jaffo

What can I say? friends+beach+sketching=happiness!!!

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!   

Sketching at Yafo flea market

Last Saturday our USk group met at Yafo Flea Market area for the Sketchcrawl. The market is close at Saturdays, but coffee shops are open, so it was very convenient for us, sketchers - streets aren't too crowded, but still there are a lot of people to sketch.

It was great, as always, and I don't know what's more fun - sketching itself, or all that nice company around