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Every year I want to set our monthly sketchcrawl at the Purim street party, and every year I afraid to make life of my fellow sketchers too tough :) This year I dared to do it. Now, when it's over, all I can say is - well done! we're amazing group! It was so fun! We met one hour before the party started, stated by sketching security guys, busy by preparing to the event. my friend Rachel is ready to the sketchcrawl :) policemen and thieves people are waiting to enter to the party Finally, the party were officially opened and Rachel and me entered to the State Square together with hundred of people wearing colorful costumes. The amount of people were relatively not so big, we could even buy a beer without staying in the line and find plenty of place on the grass to sit down and relax. It was so fun to sit under the sprig sun, to absorb the atmosphere and to observe the public wearing costumes and moving around. At the beginning it was difficult to concentrat...

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 cat...

Here are some more Purim sketches, from street party at Tel Aviv. It was very crowded and noisy, but very special and with a lot of atmosphere! Hundreds of people in constant movement was very hard subject for sketching, but very exiting, as well!

Today I was sketching during traditional Purim's parade - Adloyada - Jewish version of carnival. people at the side of the street waiting for the parade performers girl in the costume of Chinese little fairy and little bee tough security guy