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It's been a while since my last post here. Social networks took place of blogs, we use to share visuals instant with minimum words and to get immediate response. But I don't want to give up on blogging, keeping some chronological report on my stuff, something I can look back on. Recently, I scanned my moleskine sketchbook I finished in the last year (2019). I'm too lazy to scan my sketches right away, especially, after I already posted them "in process" on Instagram. But there is something nice in looking back at the whole sketchbook - the changes of subjects, mood and tools during the timeline...

I have to say that Japanese Moleskine is just perfect for beach sketching! I could enter endless Tel Aviv beach with its never stopping crowd into the sketchbook without cutting the flow and even to leave more space for the next beach day!

Moly-x is an international exchange started by Marty Harris, that brings artists from all over the planet together to exchange sketchbooks, art, stories, and friendship. Moleskine Sketchbook Portrait Party is an exchange of portraits. Each artist set off with a Moleskine in which they will draw their self-portrait. The book is then passed to the next artist who will add a self-portrait and a portrait of the book's owner. These exchanges are so fun, they causes you to interact, to influence and to be influenced by, to share, to make friends at huge distances. Here is my entry to Chris' book. I don't really know how I've come to this image, maybe that's what Chris' cool photographs associate with for me. Here are some more exchanges I participated at: moly-x-18 moly-x-29 moly-x-71

Every time I visit Jerusalem I feel I bit aboard. I wouldn't even start to write about this mysterious full of contrasts city. It take me to different places over the globe and to different times during the history. I was too lazy to stop and sketch on a street, but took a lot of photographs .  Here are some sketches I did, mostly while stopped to eat, of course ;-)

I live in Ra'anana, small town 20 min norther from Tel Aviv. Every time I come to Tel Aviv, the only really big city in Israel (for my opinion), I feel a bit like tourist. There are different pace, different sound, different people around me. Here are some last sketches from the state of Tel Aviv.

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!

Hanukah is over, and we're back to routine. Here are some sketches I did during our family vacation. We went to LaPlange, village at Alps, for some ski and fresh snow and it was fantastic! Sorry, but the only sketches I've drawn were while being at a taxi - an airport, airplane, and bus. It was too pity to sketch when I had a week only for skiing. my kids at the airplane Nuni's having a meal - it's fun! Shai and Shelly - listening to their music