Can you draw me?

by Marina Grechanik, in Jaffa, Israel

Last week I finally managed to visit my friend’s Aurore new studio at Old Jaffa. As usual, sketching together was one of our plans, so we sat down at the Kikar Kedumim square, which was filled by bright rays of the end of the February sun. 

I tried out my new oil pastels:

And did this very quick watercolor sketch of the opposite side of the square:

Groups of tourists were constantly filling and leaving the square: Japanese, Indian, European Christian… One of the groups that came there was a group of local Arab pupils – they approached us and started with the usual questions: What are you drawing? Why? Who’s paying you? When it became clear to them that we’re doing it for free and for fun, one the boys asked me to draw him. Of course I agreed, and after I finished, he asked me to sketch one of the girls ( the most beautiful, with the pink scarf). I think they both were happy with the results and they wrote their names in Arabic and Hebrew. 

I love interaction with people on the street, these rear moments make me feel like a real urban sketcher 🙂