Ofer and I took a ski course at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary. We both agreed that the main reason for this course’s success was the awesome instructor we had, Vince. I just had to give him something and I preferred to go slightly more original than chocolates. So one lesson before the end of the course I got a snapshot of him during the lesson and made this quick sketch in ink, referring to both the ever-present scheme of serpentine in the snow and his comment just before he let us try some jumps

This piece is one of three, “blacksmith-builder-tailor”. They are all acrylic on wood, and were done as an exercise in “Minshar”. The point was to portray some “guild professionals” from a list. I had a total creative block, but the urge to make a god out of the blacksmith helped me break through. I’m very happy with this piece, especially since it includes manly men, that are so rare in my repertoire. Truth be told, I liked it so much, that these three are hanging in my house, in a very prominent location.

This piece is one of three, “blacksmith-builder-tailor”. They are all acrylic on wood, and were done as an exercise in “Minshar”. The point was to portray some “guild professionals” from a list. I had a total creative block, but the urge to make a god out of the blacksmith helped me break through. I’m very happy with this piece, especially since it includes manly men, that are so rare in my repertoire. Truth be told, I liked it so much, that these three are hanging in my house, in a very prominent location.

This piece is one of three, “blacksmith-builder-tailor”. They are all acrylic on wood, and were done as an exercise in “Minshar”. The point was to portray some “guild professionals” from a list. I had a total creative block, but the urge to make a god out of the blacksmith helped me break through. I’m very happy with this piece, especially since it includes manly men, that are so rare in my repertoire. Truth be told, I liked it so much, that these three are hanging in my house, in a very prominent location.

The final project of illustrating course in “Minshar” art college was a fascinating one. We had a class competition designing a poster for an opera and the winner’s design gets to be the real poster of that opera! cool. The opera people said they want something young and different, so after some pondering around, I went wild. Anyway, I assumed it’s more just that someone that actually will make a living from this will win, so I could feel free. The opera is Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino”. By the way, the opera’s people didn’t like it claiming it was “too young and different”. whatever…

This is the third T-shirt I designed for OKAY (Israeli comic book collectors and readers). The idea was someone else’s, I don’t remember who. it says: “OKAY – because comics isn’t a child’s game”. The father is reading Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s “Y-the last man” and the kid is reading “The Barker”, paraphrazing on the name of an Israeli daily economics newspaper called “the Marker”.

This was the first exercise in “2d technics” course in Minshar art college. We had to portray each other, using line only, with a limited time. Right after that, we portrayed another student with our other hand, and it was a shaky yet cool exercise. This is Or from my class, and to my great surprise he resembles himself, even though the constraint of line only (no fill) made him look much more… um… european that he is in real life.

A man pulling a gun’s holster to his shoulder. I wanted to draw it but didn’t have a reference, and honestly I didn’t think this angle (and a man…) is something I can pull off so easily and make it believable. I sketched it anyway and was so surprised of the result, I actually went to brag to my husband…

A man! This is one of four sketches I made one afternoon, determined to create a manly man. He’s not the only good one, by the way. Since the point was to work on a man, I didn’t get to details on the fence or horses.

This is the fore graphic of our wedding invitation. We posed for it in a picture, which was terrible. I didn’t even use the reference picture because it was fuzzy and smeared. I liked that invitation a lot – though if it would have been less expansive, I would have printed it as white on black.