September 30 x 30 # 16 Museum Guard

September 30 x 30 # 16 Museum Guard

Tel Aviv Museum.... Museum Guard

Pencil Sketch 5 x 7

90 grm Canson Sketchpad

September 30 x 30 # 15 Shadow

September 30 x 30 # 15 Shadow

Viewer at an exhibition. See her shadow on the wall!!

Pencil sketch 5 x 7

90 grm Canson Sketchpad

September 30 x 30 # 13 Escalator

September 30 x 30 # 13 Escalator

Going up to the new wing at the Tel Aviv Museum.  Galleries mainly showing Israeli art.

Pencil Sketch 5 x 7 

90 grm Canson Sketchpad

September 30 x 30 # 12 Museum Gallery

September 30 x 30 # 12 Museum Gallery

Another view of the Master's Gallery. Noam and Uri listening to the explanations of the paintings.  The gallery is dim with spotlights on the paintings which I tried to capture.  This was the first visit to the Tel Aviv Museum and they were overwhelmed by the size and scope of the exhibitions...

Pencil Sketch 5 x 7

90 grm Canson Sketchpad

September 30 x 30 # 11 New Wing

September 30 x 30 # 11 New Wing

Back at the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Art. This is a view taken on one the ramps to the new wing of the Museum. I loved the various angles and tones.I am using a regular HB pencil along with a 2B mechanical pencil.

5 x 7 Pencil Sketch

90 grm Canson Sketchpad

September 30 x 30 # 8 Museum Dufy Portrait

September 30 x 30 # 8 Museum Dufy Portrait

Back at the Tel Aviv Museum. The main gallery has numbered paintings so that the public including special ones for children can look,listen and learn.  Cropped the reference to bring the kids closer to the painting..Yes I have a licence!!! Almost sure this is a Dufy!!!

5 x 7 Pencil Sketch 

90 grm Canson Sketchpad

September 30 x 30 # 3 Museum

September 30 x 30 # 3 Museum

Back at the Tel Aviv Museum main gallery collection Uri and Noam checking out their recording instruments. This is their first visit to an Art Museum and along with the paintings they enjoyed the electronics.

Trying to simplify the shapes and tones.

5 x 7 Pencil and charcoal sketch

September 30 x 30 # 1 Old Masters Gallery

September 30 x 30  # 1 Old Masters Gallery

Here we are again..another 30 x 30... by Leslie Seata . Thirty days to promote more creativity painting sketching or what ever...  Shush... don't tell anybody  but I am starting a bit early for several reasons. The first one being that on Sept 25 I will be leaving for 12 days to Morocco... so I want a head start. Second this year the High Holidays are all in September... lots of shopping and preparing and family gatherings that with trip preparations time to create will be tricky.... so this time around, my fourth, decided to do pencil sketches... may add color or may not... will go with the flow. As Leslie states... main rule is to have FUN!!!

This past month I have made several visits to the Tel Aviv Museum... the last was with my 2 grandsons Noam, 10, and Uri ,6.  We rented earphones so that they could follow along in the main galleries... I took a few photos for references.  One of the galleries was the Old Masters... I loved the light patterns in this reference of Noam listening to an explanation.

5 x 7 "

HB pencil + charcoal

90 grm Canson Sketchpad

Live Figure Drawing Marathon Tel Aviv Musuem

What a surprise when Lea called and asked me if I wanted to join!!! What a question!!!!
Below is an invite postcard from the Museum showing a figure beside one of the paintings... We were in this gallery and had a similar pose.....

Invite Flyer 

It was a wonderful experience that I hope will continue.... really need the practice....