A blog about writing, sketching, running and other things
It’s Israel’s 70th Independence Day next week and there was an exhibition celebrating this in Ben Gurion Boulevard.
The weather was perfect though it did heat up a bit later on. Sunscreen season is upon us.
You know you’re doing well as a fisherman when both a cat and an egret are waiting for you to fail.
Ain’t she pretty? I love Tel Aviv so much, especially on days like these.
All this made for a fast and fun 7k.
Quite a short long run this week, since I’m easing back to running after being sick. The weather was perfect, if a bit greyish and misty, as you can see from the view:
There’s a smart little egret (Egretta garzetta) who likes to stalk talentless fishermen and beg for the small fry that they catch, and if I run early enough in the morning I get to see it in action
All in all a good 6k run on a perfect day.
Urban Sketchers Tel Aviv met up outside Beit Chana, a local community centre, for a special Swing and Draw event. Around 20 dancers danced to Swing music out of old records played on two turntables while around 30 of us Urban Sketchers drew them. It was a lovely event and I thoroughly enjoyed myself (I managed to reach my one week 100 people challenge goal during the two and a half hours I was there). I had to leave early due to family obligations but I was so glad that I participated anyway.
Things took a while to get going so I drew some fellow Urban Sketchers as I waited:
Warmup dancing:
Used the Sanford no-blot for the first time here:
Then moved to an 0.3 Staedler pigment liner and a fine Kuretake brush pen:
A lot more couples had joined in at this point and they were moving fast.
I turned to quick gesture drawing to get the most out of the event. Moved to a Faber-Castell blue brush pen for a bit of a change:
Finally broke out a Faber-Castell purple coloured pencil for the last few gestures:
Here’s a little video of the super talented dancers to give you a bit of a sense of things:
All in all a fun event and great drawing opportunity.
Yesterday was a busy day, it being the 7th of Passover, so I only had less than 20 minutes to get these down.
Back to Jaffa’s flea market this time, though I hadn’t much time to draw too many people. Every sketch here was done in two minutes or less, as the subject was moving.
As I thought, yesterday was a busy day and so I had very little time to draw. Went to the Olamot Sci Fi and Fantasy convention and managed to get a few quick sketch in though.
I usually run in the evening at this time of year, but I love morning runs more, and the Tel Aviv promenade is so packed during the evening on Passover week that this is the only sane time to run.
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