Touristic tour in Jaffa

It's always funny to realize that because you live in a very touristic place, your everyday walks look like a touristic tour… and your sketchbook like a guide book !

Let's visit Jaffa together…

First the port of Jaffa… I went to draw a plane that crashed 2 or 3 miles away in the sea. The 2 pilots were testing the plane, they both swam to the shore and are safe!

 Always nice to seat in Loveat coffee shop and draw the customers

My kids are always begging for ice scream flavor Smurfs and chewing gum…

Then a tour on the big park of Jaffa, in front of the sea

To go back to a crowded and lively area, the old city offers nice opportunities to find a good spot to seat

 Here with Felix Scheinberger, our urban sketcher german friend !

Time to go to the flea market

When the evening comes, the market is finished, HaMalabia coffee shop installs its tables in the market

Not to late to visit a friend and draw her nice arab house…

… before going back home and have a stop to sketch Beit Ali on Yefet St.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll go on Sharey Nikanor and have a fish in Cafe 60

Jaffa in black and white

Lately I try to go back to simplicity, no color, just shadows, trying to catch an interesting scene or atmosphere or light… Here is a series I did in Jaffa at different moments of the day…

Jaffa port
"When the bimbo meets the ice cream lover with a Django Reinhardt sound track"

Woman with stripes in the park of Jaffa

Jaffa Old city by night from Charles Clore beach

Yafo during my son's nap

Here are 2 drawings I made during my son's nap, I drew from the car and had the idea to use it as a frame for the drawing...

Park of Yafo

Toam sleeps in the car while mummy is drawing, thanks darling !