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Two weddings

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Last month we visited two weddings - great opportunity to eat, dance and... sketch ;) The first one - Georgian family: The second one - French-Moroccan family: It was fun! I don't think I would like to show my sketches to their's "models", thought ;)

Hospital sketches

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I spent almost all last week in the hospital with my son, who had an accident and got hurt at his hand. These sketches where done while waiting to him to get from the surgery - the only thing that helped me to calm down a bit. The surgery went well :) Religious woman is praying and a man from Azerbaijan is telling his story Jews and Arabs are waiting together religious man is praying, Russians are telling stories Shai's watching "House" at the hospital  friends came to visit I don't recommend you to get to hospitals, but once you're there - there are plenty of stories and authentic characters to sketch. And sketching passes time in a best way :) Take care!

Sketchcrawl at The Yemen Vineyard

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At last Friday morning, sunny and cold, we met at the Yemen Vineyardfor for the sketchcrawl . I love this beautiful corner of Tel Aviv, full of nostalgic atmosphere, colorful characters, and authentic food. Everybody found there a lot of nice stories, and here are mine: everything in pita at the corner of the Hacarmel market the dog - the king of the street humus " Shlomo & Doron" two guys with strong gazes Friday morning meeting of friends - they were happy to provide their names ;) The time flied fast as ussual, and the sketchcrawl ended with a nice meal (of course!). Sorry, I didn't sketch the excellent soup and humus I had!

At "Beta and Grega"

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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

November beach

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Some sketches I did on one of Jaffa's beaches at one of perfect November days. Dog and his owner - don't they look alike? tourist in red swimming suit and a fisherman beach panorama pigeons - the lords of the beach the food at the end, as usual!

Backgammon "club" at the flea market

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Jaffa Flea market is one of the most colorful places in Tel Aviv, full of authentic characters, patterns, smells, sounds and stories. After I came back from Singapore, where I was fascinated by the chess players "club" in the middle of the Chinatown, I was looking for opportunity to sketch street games players here in Israel. This week I found them at the Jaffa . Small table and two chairs in the middle of the street, two players surrounded by the group of men - was really the best show in the city! I think that Olympic Games competitors need to learn the worrier's spirit from these backgammon players! Suddenly we saw at the opposite site of the street group of men organizing something... What are they up to? They turned to Jerusalem direction and started to pray: Of course, there is no sketching day without food - we couldn't resist to have some humus! Small cup of black coffee and Nathan, very concentrated by sketching people around :)  It was p...

"One Moment" - reportage drawing in the City Hall

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This year Urban Sketchers Israel were invited again to take a part in the Municipality of Tel Aviv event "One Moment - Art in Unexpected Spaces". We were invited to be reporters of the event and also one of its attraction - sketching "live" all we see around. Sketchcrawls are always fun, but being "reporters" of such a colorful event, when all kind of artists from various areas perform for the Tel-Avivian audience inside the municipality building - place they use to see when they pay taxes and fines - this is a very special and fun experience! stand-up comedy DJ improvisation people in the hall girls rock band "Yes Ma'am!" people listening to the "Yes Ma'am" reading poetry  guards are enjoying as well beer stand woman dances rock'n'roll alone guy with dreadlocks takes selfie couple hugging couple dancing Music+sketching+some beer=happiness formula worked big time...