Friday, April 19, 2013

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!

Saturday, April 6, 2013

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!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

At the Tel Aviv port


I had a meeting at the Tel Aviv port a couple days ago and, of course,  managed to make some sketches in between. These wonderful spring days are so great, but you don't know it, sitting all the day near your computer in a tiny studio, trying to meet your deadlines.










Monday, March 18, 2013

People and other animals

Here are sketches from our last Sketchcrawl at Park Hayarkon near Bavli small zoo area. The place was perfect for lazy sketcher - I didn't need to move from my place - my "models" just moved opposite me.




Sketching animals isn't my cup of tea, but I have to admit, it was fun!
Well, sketching people was fun as well ;-)

Monday, February 25, 2013

Purim - sketching the carniaval

Every year when Purim comes, my fingers start itching - I'm thinking about all these wonderful opportunities to sketch during various carnivals that we have at this holiday. It's very fun, but very challenging and sometimes frustrating. There are so many wonderful stories on the street - proud parents, that were waiting for an opportunity to dress their kids with costumes, even if them only a few mouth old; teenager girls dressed very sexy - finally it's allowed officially; teenager boys that cut and dyed their hair in extremely weird ways; old people trying to be cool and wearing very strange stuff... and so on. I wish my fingers could move as fast as my eyes, but they don't. So majority of funny stories will be left in my memory, here are some I succeed to capture. Here's the first sketch that I drew before the carnival began, you can see the security guys guarding the closed street and people waiting:

I continued sketching in a small sketchbook, trying to catch first the essence of the character.





































Here I put the least of them all together in a one long spreed - thought it fit the atmosphere of a carnival:



I was very concentrated sketcher ;-)
How's about your experience of sketching people in action?

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Short trip to the north

From time to time my husband and me succeed to manage short trips by our own - without the kids. Here are some sketches that I did during our short trip to the north part of the country during this weekend.  Our first stop was at Nazareth - beautiful city full of history.
at Nazareth we ate the best hummus ever!


street near the market

quick sketch at one of the streets

another plate of great hummus


view from Tiberias to Kinneret, our biggest lake
As you can see, it was really fun trip!