Friday is Yom Yerushalayim – the day (by the Jewish lunar calendar) that Jerusalem was re-taken / conquered / liberated / occupied in the 1967 “Six Day War“. In Jerusalem they are having all the celebrations tomorrow because Friday is a short day. However the real day is Friday.
In the circles I mix in it [...]
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New Jerusalem picture for Yom Yerushalayim
Posted in Jerusalem, Jewish Year, Painting on 20 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recycling in Jerusalem
Posted in Green, Jerusalem on 5 May, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I just came back from the new Jerusalem recycling center . Not many people there, just the guy who looks after it and he looked kind of bored. He was very helpful. Looks like he has loads of time on his hands.
The center is opposite the Herzog Hospital in Givat Shaul on the road that goes [...]
Amazing drawing of Jerusalem
Posted in Art, Artists, Jerusalem on 27 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this video today (sorry but most of it is in Hebrew) about Stephen Wiltshire who draws amazing panoramic drawings of cities around the world from memory. The image below shows the finished work and if you click on it you can go to his site to see his gallery.
Go to Stephen Wiltshire’s gallery
Stephen apparently [...]
The best falafel
Posted in Food, Israel, Jerusalem on 21 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I had the best falafel I have had in many years. In fact it was so good, I just felt I needed to blog about it and let the world know.
Why was it so good. Well…
The falafel balls were crispy and freshly fried
There were loads of them
I had mine in a pita. My son had a [...]
Yemin Moshe looking good
Posted in Jerusalem, Paintings in progress on 6 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As you can see above, I’ve now got most of the Yemin Moshe picture done now. I added in all the foreground trees and the windmill which just leaves the houses.
I have added some detail to the houses, but they don’t look quite right. This is on two counts. Firstly their alignments and perspectives are [...]
Yemin Moshe
Posted in Jerusalem, Paintings in progress on 30 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I started on a new picture a couple of days ago. The painting shows the view to Yemin Moshe from just next to the Jaffa Gate of the old city of Jerusalem. Yemin Moshe is a beautiful historic neighbourhood set adjacent to the old city. It was the first neighbourhood to be built outsid eth city walls [...]
Another sale!
Posted in Goals & Resolutions, Jerusalem, Sales & Business on 7 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Exciting news – Jerusalem Balcony is sold!
To tell the truth there is a certain sadness in seeing good pictures departing but I remember reading way back on WetCanvas a poster who said that if you don’t sell you don’t ever move on from your older work and you can’t develop.
I think I have already beaten [...]
Jerusalem at night picture
Posted in Completed Paintings, Jerusalem on 14 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just realized that I never posted the finished Jerusalem-at-night picture on the blog. Anyway, here it is. You can see the “full-sized” version here
A very productive week
Posted in Completed Paintings, Goals & Resolutions, Jerusalem, Paintings in progress, Sales & Business on 3 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week was an amazing week for my painting with two pictures sold and an unprecedented output of three (almost four) pictures! This was a direct by-product of the weather that prevented me (or at least gave me a perfect justification) from going to work. This gave me loads of time for painting.
So what did [...]
Snow in Jerusalem hills
Posted in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Jerusalem, Snow, Weather on 31 January, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Finally some pictures of snow!
This is taken from my mirpeset (balcony) looking east from Beit Shemesh in the direction of Jerusalem. What you can see here are the hills around Beit Meir.
We are still snowbound today. As you can see there is no snow in Beit Shemesh, but it snowed again all night in Jerusalem and [...]
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