Portrait of Amir

Last November.2018, we celebrated my grandson Noam's Bar-Mitzva. As usual, took lots of photos, wish I had taken more. One imparticular of my grandson Amir just kept saying "paint me" He was sitting with his mobile phone and looked up as I shot the image.

I have no idea why this post was left.... time to post.
I enjoyed doing this painting but looking back I find things that could be fixed. He looks like he,s seated in the air! My constant critic!
Every painting a learning experience. Although no features are painted it is definitely Amir

Now for a painting of him drumming

Amir

Oils on gessoed cardboard

50 x 70 cm

You Are In for a Big Surprise

Giving lots of thoughts to Jen's post on extra-ordinary! We all get into the day to day living pattern without much thought, just ordinary stuff. Feed the cats, and Bella the chicken. Make porridge, do the laundry... all done without much thought. Mundane, boring... but the ordinary can be extra.

Friday

An early trip to the bakery for Shabbat Chala, pitots and borakas!
No traffic, lots of parking space, and the smell of fresh baked goods  EXTRA!

Feeding the cats and Bella... Lady begging for some hugs and petting... EXTRA!
The cool air  EXTRA! Even the smell of freshly laundered clothes  EXTRA!

Coming home from Natanya after a condolence visit,(shiva) Waze took us home on a road near the sea.  Glimpses of the sea between the buildings EXTRA.

I am certainly going to try to look for the EXTRA more!

Tuesday  workshop always EXTRA

This painting was done over another rather unsuccessful painting below.  I had added another blue layer which made it worse. At first, I just wanted to sort veil it with light gray tones but it sort of had a will of its own and all sort figures began appearing.

When You Go Into the Forest

Oils and Cold Wax

Cut Canvas

24" x 19"

The Strange Sub-conscious

I signed up for a beta 10-day challenge, I know I should be more in focus, but what the heck. Actually, I was invited by the host Rich Amstrong the creator of randomworddoodles, those funny doodles that I have been doing on Instagram! Well, to make the story short it coincided on the day that Lily had the operation to have her eye removed.

Lily

Last photo before the operation

I left her at the clinic, came home, put on some classical music and decided to do day one of the challenge. Intuitive 10-minute drawing/painting on a large sheet of paper using the non-dominant hand. 

Watercolor crayons water spray

the texture from the wooden board

6 min

4-minute scribble

Start of day 4 Lily is doing fine.... and her mom better!