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I love my 4 color BIC ballpoint pen - perfect for quick sketches, with one pen only in your hand you can express almost anything! Following are three sketches that was drawn at the wedding. Each sketch was done after one more glass of wine. You can see how my stokes changed as well ;) Beit Romano - always great place for drink and draw couple in the bar Last two sketches - from the concert of our friend Ronan  - it's always fabulous to draw music!

It's fascinating to watch human body in movement. To sketch it - is really challenging but so enjoyable! It takes time to dare to do the first line. It looks impossible to capture constantly changing postures, expressions, turning body to something different all the time. How to capture pace, rhythm, effort, flexibility, flow? The only way is to start sketching, line after line, page after page, slowly entering inside and feeling a part of the group of moving people. Here is my attempt on sketching AcroYoga class last week at Beit Hanna - nice place in Tel Aviv, providing various activities for your body and your soul, which will host an exhibition called "Illustrating in Movement" during upcoming Illustration Week. It was so fun!  

Sketches from our last Sketchcrawl at the Fleamarket of Jaffa - always vibrant place, full of colorful characters and stories! started sketching together with my guest from Germany, Karin people at Shafa Bar municipality official arguing with a peddler, both of them cursing in Russian Ethiopian boys managing the bussuness after the sketchcrawl - hummus at Danny's buffet - yummy! What a fun day!

Friday morning of the middle of August. Streets of Jerusalem are hot and blinding. Movement of people holding drawing pads flows to the direction of Clal building. After while they spread out at the train station and start to draw the surroundings. It looks like a beginning of the regular sketchcrawl, but still, around of 30 people, mostly not from Jerusalem, took trouble and went up to the capital at the morning of this very summery Friday, and are sketching with a lot of energy among the burning Jerusalem crowd. It was very special and exiting meeting, an initiative of the organizers of "Outline - Illustration and Words in Jerusalem." We came to draw toward the group exhibition "The Trainmen" - cooperation with City Pass - the light rail in Jerusalem. This time the exhibition will not be displayed in the gallery, but will be integrated into the urban space - our drawings will be printed enlarged and displayed at the light rail stations, which fits perfectly the ...

I love gouache, but it's difficult to manage it and all the equipment when I sketch outside. At home it's easier, and I have always have plenty of models.

Hot Friday morning at the beginning of July - nothing couldn't stop us to meet for the sketchcrawl at the HaTikva Market - small market in the South Tel Aviv. It's really perfect place for sketching, with plenty of authentic stories, colorful characters, without poses and without air conditioner ;) Yes, it's challenging, but once you got the adrenaline of sketching, you don't care about the heat, the shouts, you simply flow with them. I started sketching from the entrance to the market - vibrant place where people move non stop, caring their shopping bags - you need to hurry on Friday morning to be ready for the Sabbath evening! We were sitting opposite to small Shawarma place, so I couldn't not to sketch its owner, chatting with his customers about everything - from politics to arts and everything in between... After the warm up we dived into the market! I couldn't help not to stop near the beautiful melons-seller, reminding by herself ripe melon ;...