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A Building and a Bird
The artist who set up for our weekly Tuesday night art group had several photos of apartment buildings with laundry. I liked how cheerfully individualized each apartment seemed in the photo reference I used, and I tried to convey that … Continue reading
Guimarães and Children
We are in a new-to-us city, Guimarães, Portugal. It is an UNESCO World Heritage Site because the city has maintained its medieval character while also developing into a modern city. The city is quite a change for me from my … Continue reading
Posted in Cityscape, Telling a Story, Uncategorized
Tagged Children, Families Belong Together, Gesture, Guimarães, Ink Sketches, People, Portugal. Sketches
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Fixing the Leak
Our watering system sprang a big leak, which is not good when water conservation is as important as it is right now in California. It had to be fixed and I got to sketch my favorite home repairman in the … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Story Creation, Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, Line, San Diego, Urban Sketching
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Tel Aviv Corner
It was fun to take the bus down to Tel Aviv for the day with friends. We visited three small museums each honoring an Israeli founder, Ben Gurion, the first prime minister, Chaim Bialik, the poet, and Reuven Rubin, the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Gesture, In- the- moment, Israel, Line, Urban Sketching
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Street Drummer
At nearly five in the afternoon Yafo Street in central Jerusalem was full of hurrying people. A street musician began to play the hang drum and people stopped to listen. I was lucky to be already sitting across the street … Continue reading
Posted in Groups Interacting, Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, In- the- moment, Line
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Are You Interested?
I do not know what academic topic these two were discussing today in the Hebrew University Library’s cafe, but I thought that there was a more personal and unspoken topic being considered as well. I tried to capture the positive … Continue reading
Jaffa Street
Downtown Jerusalem has a long street shared by pedestrians, stores, sidewalk cafes, street musician, and light rail, but not cars. I was puzzled at first by what looked like a lack of barriers between the light rail and people but … Continue reading
Posted in Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, In- the- moment, Israel, Line
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