The head of Satan: Easter holidays in Sinai, Egypt

For the Easter holidays, we went back to Sinai with my family. We passed the border of Eilat (Israel) to reach the Egyptan side of the Red Sea, in front of Jordan. There, we found bedouin camps to host us, we choosed this time Castle beach, located in Rosh HaSatan "Satan's head", named out of the big rock that closes the bay…
A beautiful reef full of colored fishes, nice bungalows to stay in and of course, the amazing mountains of Sinaï, reflecting themselves in the sea… All what I need to spend a week to sketch and rest peacefully !

Bedouin menu

Night atmosphere in Castle beach…

Night atmosphere…

The view from the terrass of my bungalow

View from behind my bungalow : sand and rocks

Main activity in Sinaï when you are out of the water !

Israeili Tar player

Stormy weather on Jaffa

Waiting an hour under a strong rain on a parking lot waiting for your son going out from his capoera lesson doesn't sound very exciting… But when you are set in your car, have your sketchbook with you, watching the sea under a stormy weather, black clouds competing with sun in a rage of wind and rain, graphical lines on the floor, black cat calling you desperately from outside, palm trees dancing in the wind… It may change your perspective !

Jabaliya Beach, Jaffa

Jabaliya beach is always an amazing mix of people and when it's week end or holidays, everybody is doing barbecue on the grass, the beach is covered with smog and smell from the meat… The "balcony" above the beach is the perfect place to observe and draw comfortably, to find again this feeling of the drawing hunter that we become when we start to sketch !

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