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Happy Earth Day!
We were on our way to Passover dinner and stopped at Hadar Josef, a neighborhood of Tel-Aviv, where we lived 38 years ago. We tried to locate our old apartment but between the tremendous remodeling and our fading memories, we … Continue reading
Posted in Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Israel, Landscape, Line, Urban Sketching
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Agave at the Sea of Galilee
Looking south down the Sea of Galilee, the lake seems almost to merge with the sky and hills at the far end where the River Jordan begins. I am working on creating a sense of depth in a landscape. In … Continue reading
Salt Deposits at the Dead Sea
Today’s sketch is based on another on line drawing I made at the Dead Sea Tuesday. My goal today was to give the landscape a sense of depth. I used cooler colors with less value for the Jordanian mountains, intending to … Continue reading
Evening View of Kifar Sha’ul
It was warm at last and so I went back to the Jerusalem forest to sketch for the full afternoon. I love looking out across the valley to the small villages that sit on the terraced hills. I sketched … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Uncategorized
Tagged Color, Israel, Landscape, Procreate
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View from the Balcony
When we first got to Jerusalem, I sketched the view of the city from our balcony. It was very cold then, hovering around freezing and I focused on recording what I saw. This sketch today is nearly the same … Continue reading
Caesarea
We sadly left David and Tara at the airport and then went on north to Caesarea National Park, the site of a once grand old harbor and city that was built, destroyed, and rebuilt by just about every group that … Continue reading
View of Kfar Sha’ul
I was just finishing up when a young woman jaunted down the sidewalk into my sketch and made all the difference. I love the tilt of her hip and head and the way it turns my landscape into a … Continue reading