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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.

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 ;-)

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...

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!

Sea at winter is even nicer than at summer...

Finally I've got to scan some pages from my current sketchbook, so here are some mixed stuff: my family and friends, street and indoor scenes - sketches from daily routine. Sketching during trips to exotic places is really fun, but finding stories in everyday life is real essence of urban sketching for me!

Here are new illustrations I did for "Einayim" - children's magazine. The story is about the boy, who's dreaming to be a conductor. One day his uncle invites the boy to join him to a classic music concert, and the story is about the boy's experience of his first concert. I was trying to remember when I went to my very first concert. Listening live classic music is magic, but it should be real magic to experience it for the first time!