Purim sketchcrawl

[By Marina Grechanik, in Tel Aviv, Israel]

I love Purim – one of the most joyful Jewish holidays, with its traditional masquerading in costumes and a lot of carnival parties on the streets! Every year I want to set our monthly sketchcrawl at one of the Purim street parties, and every year I afraid to make life of my fellow sketchers too tough 🙂 This year I dared to do it. Now, when it’s over, all I can say is – well done! we’re amazing group! It was so fun!

We met one hour before the party started, stated by sketching security guys, busy by preparing to the event.

my friend Rachel is ready to the sketchcrawl 🙂

policemen and thieves

Finally, the party were officially opened and my friend Rachel and me entered to the State Square together with hundred of people wearing colorful costumes. The amount of people were relatively not so big, we could even buy a beer without staying in the line and find plenty of place on the grass to sit down and relax. It was so fun to sit under the sprig sun, to absorb the atmosphere and to observe the public wearing costumes and moving around. At the beginning it was difficult to concentrate, but little by little the beer and the atmosphere were absorbed inside me and I started to sketch. Each time I “hunted” with my eyes interesting character or interaction I tried to put it on the paper.

beetle, butterfly and… Woody from the Toy Story, who ate too much 😉

The music and the amount of people increased together with my sketching pace. It was almost meditative – free and unconscious flow. At some point I woke up and felt overwhelmed. Just in time when Rachel reminded me that we need to return to the meeting point.

It was huge fun, fantastic experience for people sketching lovers!

I’m already waiting for the next year 🙂