Since I’m too tired to draw today, I’ll leave you with this great video sent to me by Yotam.
It’s a short film made by the people of London-based film magazine Little White Lies. They use tons of illustration in every possible way, and it’s really interesting to see how it’s done.
They also have all of their previous issues online, which is pretty nice of them.
Wishing you all a really nice and restful weekend. Bye for now…
* Stole the title from one of Dana’s genius tags.
Great artist and friend Dana Lev Levnat (aka D.L.L) has a new blog. Exciting!
Her images are weird and touching, but never sentimental. Take a better look here.
A new year’s greeting collage sent by the genius Zeev Engelmeyer.
I wanted to link to his site, but he doesn’t have one – too cool for the internet this guy :) (EDIT: Apparently Zeev does have a blog and my coolness theory goes to waste. Thanks Michal for the correction).
The greeting is hard to explain if you don’t read Hebrew, but generally: it’s a witty comment on the verdict against Israel’s former president, Katsav, who was trialed for sexual harassment (!) and rape (!!!), and was found guilty last week.
When I started working on this drawing I was a little under the influence of French designer / illustrator Antoine cake, but the need to avoid the risk of being too influenced, led me in a weird direction. Anyway, Antoine is quite wonderful, check out his drawings here.
Beautiful work by Meirav Shaul.
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Yesterday evening was the opening of “Galer-Yam” (a word play on Gallery and Sea), a pop-up experimental illustration gallery on the beach in Tel-Aviv.
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The project is the brain-child of Dafi Hagai, a design student from HIT. She contacted me a few months ago, asking me if I’d like to participate in her project. I said YES, because I really appreciate people like Dafi, who actually do stuff (as opposed to just thinking about it).
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The other artists who said YES to Dafi are really a few of the best: Gilad Seliktar, David Polonsky, Moran Barak, Michal Bonano, Merav Salomon, Meirav Shaul, Noa Vichansky, Einat Peled and last but not least Shimrit Elkanati.
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From left to right: Gilad Seliktar, Michal Bonano, Shimrit Elkanati, David Polonsky.
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As you can see, it was very dark on the beach and I couldn’t take good pictures of almost anything. My work was also very lost in the dark, so here is the original drawing:
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Dafi silk printed the works she collected on big glass plates and then set them into rusty metal frames. In the sunshine the drawings are cast as shadows on the sand and a new dimension is added to the artwork. It’s kind of hard to explain :)
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It’s going to be up until December 16, so hurry up and go take a look if you can.
It’s been a while since I last wrote a post about another artist (not very nice of me), but today I came across some work I just couldn’t ignore.
These images are part of a project called Haunted Letters, by Guy Saggee of Shual Studio in Tel-Aviv. I’ve been a fan of the studio for years, but was still surprised by this work…
In this project Guy created both English and Hebrew alphabets based on events from Jewish history. Each letter on the alphabet illustrates a part of the story, and all of it together is used in a series of typographic posters. I can’t believe how strong those little weird drawings are.
This project is actually comprised of two parts, one is called Marrow Bones and the other We Did Not Try Hard Enough, and you can see more of them here and here.
Ahh! These kind of things make me so excited (maybe too excited) and also a little jealous :)
This is an old Russian movie for kids (thank Oleg). It’s a bit long, but so worth watching.
The movie is about two characters, Och, a sleepy depressed guy, and Ach, his annoyingly happy neighbor. I almost cried watching Och trying to be productive and useful.
But don’t you worry, the ending is good, thanks to Och’s caring friends!
Woodblock poster by British graphic designer Anthony Burrill (I’m a total sucker for inspiring quotes). See more of this series here – it will probably make you feel good.
So instead of dealing with the present, and the crazy events happening where I live, here’s a portrait from the past (hiding from conflict has always been my go-to way of action).
This is Ziona, who was my father’s aunt and a pretty successful artist. An inspiring character.
Emil Abraham is an artist (and also a reader of this blog). We met briefly on the ‘Ruby Wood Project’ exhibition, and started to chat a little by email.
The works above are by him. They’re a part of a larger series, and I like them a lot. They must be great to look at in real life, with all those layers of color and raw energy.
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After yesterday’s post, Emil sent me a photograph of a knit he designed a long time ago, which my drawing reminded him of. The colors just tickled my eyes + brain so I had to draw it. It turned out pretty weird, but I like the fact that it made me do something less “pretty”.
My name is Keren Taggar, an illustrator from Tel Aviv, Israel. This is sort of a sketchbook blog, a place for me to publish things I have nowhere else to show, and also a daily drawn diary.
