Tag Archives: Landscape

Sderot HaMuze’onim

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

This is a sketch of a street near the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem. The more I draw the different types of stone around Jerusalem, the more I realize how little I know about showing texture and irregular shape. I … Continue reading →

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Bus Stop

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

My learning goal for this week is to understand how to draw stone walls and stone buildings, which is pretty important if you want to do landscapes in Jerusalem. After a long morning of sketching stone without much progress, I … Continue reading →

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A Hedge and a Path

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

Jerusalem has a system of shortcuts for pedestrians, walkways that keep you out of traffic and let you cut across huge blocks. This particular footpath is near our apartment and one of my favorites now that its massive aloe hedge … Continue reading →

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Garden at Hebrew University

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

  I did several versions of this statue on the university lawn. The bare earth with the beginnings of a flower garden attracted me but then I got distracted by the statue against the winter sky. I  am not sure … Continue reading →

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The Old City Walls again

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

  Yesterday’s sketch bothered me. One of my goals is to use image to tell a story and yesterday’s sketch did not do so. I woke up thinking that it would have been better if I had included awestruck people. … Continue reading →

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The Old City

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

If you stand at the Montefiore Windmill in Jerusalem, you can see down into a valley and across it to the walls of the Old City. It is hard to take your eyes off of this view, you could spend … Continue reading →

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From the Botanical Garden

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

I sketched awhile at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens; this sketch includes the apartment buildings on the hills above the garden. I love the look of this city and the way it is laid out. Most buildings here are made of … Continue reading →

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