People from HaTikva Market

[By Marina Grechanik, in Tel Aviv, Israel]
Hot Friday morning at the beginning of July – nothing couldn’t stop us to meet for the sketchcrawl at the HaTikva Market – small market in the South Tel Aviv.

It’s really perfect place for sketching, with plenty of authentic stories, colorful characters, without poses and without air conditioner 😉 Yes, it’s challenging, but once you got the adrenaline of sketching, you don’t care about the heat, the shouts, you simply flow with them.

I started sketching from the entrance to the market – vibrant place where people move non stop, caring their shopping bags – you need to hurry on Friday morning to be ready for the Sabbath evening!

We were sitting opposite to small Shawarma place, so I couldn’t not to sketch its owner, chatting with his customers about everything – from politics to arts and everything in between…

After the warm up we dived into the market! I couldn’t help not to stop near the beautiful melons-seller, reminding by herself ripe melon 😉  

In the meat place were more reddish atmosphere 😉

Some more sketches from the central avenue of the market – and time was up.

There is nothing better than sketching in the authentic place, were real life is going on. Such a place fascinates me million times more than any fancy aesthetic place, here are people without poses, and stories without poses. I must to come back for more!