With a huge bag

 There are the three characters I created recently. Last time, I told you about the one with the masks, and today I'd like to introduce the one with the huge bag, where she carries some of her stories.

The Masks

During the last few years, I have created several characters wearing masks. I assume it falls under the same interest I have in Topsy Turvy characters, who can be two different characters at the same time. Recently, I created a new series of three female characters, which I'd like to present here (yes, I still haven't "killed" my blog, even though I am not updating it as much as I would like to). Each character has her own unwritten story. The first one is this woman, with her masks and totem.

Hung

The show is now on, and here are some photos of my Topsy Turvy characters at the gallery.

I framed both of them in a laser-cut wooden hoop, in order to hang them at the center of the gallery space. (The exhibition will be on show at Artemisia Gallery, 31 Abarbanel St., Tel Aviv, and it will continue until the end of October)

Topsy Turvy Ilustration

About three months ago, I was asked to participate in an illustration exhibition, as part of the Tel Aviv Illustration Week.

The exhibition revolves around one fairy tale, The Red Silk Ribbon, which is quite long and has a complicated plot. In short, it tells the story of a fisherman who can't fish anymore, so in order to get more fish, he promises to let a mermaid have something he has in his own house, but doesn't know what it is yet. Apparently, it is his own son (when he arrives home, his wife tells him she is pregnant). When Lucas, the son, grows up, his life becomes quite difficult, but then, one day, he receives a gift: The ability to transform himself into four different animals, and this gift enables him to marry a beautiful princess. Meanwhile, the mermaid hasn't forgotten what she was promised, and transforms the princess into a dragon... This is a very short summary, since the fairy tale includes many more details and subplots.

I chose to illustrate two scenes depicting the transformation process in the fairy tale by creating Topsy Turvy characters who have two heads and share the same body. As I had a short time to complete the work, it was quite an intense process. Here are some images of my piece. The exhibition is already on show at Artemisia Gallery, 31 Abarbanel St., Tel Aviv, and it will continue until the end of October.

The Weirdos

It is summertime again, and I finally have much more time to spend at the studio. But suddenly I felt the familiar "Blank Page" fear, so I grabbed some scraps: Crocheted body parts, hands, legs, and heads, normal emergency supplies. 

I started to play around with them and put them together, to see what I could get out of all those discarded pieces, and after a while, these three creatures emerged, which I named The Weirdos.

 

The Baboons

The big baboon is now done, and all of my baboons are on Salon Miryam (Dizingof 171, Tel Aviv) 

display window,  they took part in an art show at display windows- Rehov Lovesh Omanot, the exhibition is over but my Baboons are still there till this weekend.