John the Barista

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Children at the Wall

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Children at the Wall

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This drawing is included in the series of children's drawings.

I used an actual photo of the kotel as inspiration for the wall. I wanted to make it as realistic as possible when using pen&ink.

Dancing on the Wall: Jump-rope on the Hill

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The idea for the second drawing continued from the first drawing. I wanted to show children playing and the game of jump-rope came to mind. It began with the children playing followed by the brick road between them. I decided to show the road curving to the wall in the background through allusion (behind the hill), and it was my husband who asked if I could link this drawing to the first one somehow. He suggested I add the original children from the first drawing on the wall in the background. I thought it was a pretty good idea.

Starbucks View

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Dancing on the Wall

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The idea of the wall sort of developed. I've always had a fascination with stone walls and walls in Jerusalem in particular so I thought, "um, I'll start with a wall and an arch and go from there".

Next I looked up photos of archways to see how they layed the brick on the top of the arch and what the arch looked like from different angles.
After creating the basic sketch of the stones I added in the little nooks, cracks, and details of grass poking out here and there.
The idea to put a tree inside of the archway came from a photo I found which actually had the tree in front of the gate. Me, liking to be original put the tree (which is similar to the photo) on the inside of the gate to claim it as my own.
Later after searching for photos of gates I found a photo Here which inspired me to put a door through the gate and add a person standing in it. Now, I changed the person obviously because who needs a naked man standing in the doorway? hehe

Rainbow Lights

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Davening IDF

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