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I went to the first time to Israel in late August, 2007. I was a very surprised with its cosmopolitan life, its young people, the cafes, the shops, the boulevards, the slightly degraded facades of its Bauhaus style buildings, which made them so interesting, so alive, so human.Apart from all the 'war and terrorism'(thank you, mass media),Israel is an ordinary place.My drawings are done from life and try to show daily life in Israel, mostly Tel-Aviv. The Israel Sketchbook is an on going project.
ABOUT THE DRAWINGS
I went the first time to Israel in late August, 2007. I stayed for three weeks in Tel-Aviv, with an Israeli friend I had met before in Lisbon. At that time I had just finished illustrating a comic book that had take almost a year and a half of my life, so you can say that I really needed some time off, somewhere far, far away. Staying with my friend in Tel-Aviv, I was a very surprised with its cosmopolitan life, its young people, the cafes, the shops, the boulevards, the slightly degraded facades of its Bauhaus style buildings, which made them so interesting, so alive, so human...
Apart from all the "war and terrorism" (thank you, mass media), I confess I didn´t knew all that much about Israel. It´s just one of those places you hear all the time in the eight o´clock news, but when you think about how it really is, there´s a kind of blur in your head...
I can´t say that I love those three weeks... Tel-Aviv was so hot and humid. That really got to me. And with my friend working most of the time, in a restaurant, as most of Tel-Aviv young people do, I learned later, I was mostly left to myself and with nothing to do but wonder around, I found myself drawing all the time.
Done in one A5 size sketchbook, and several A6 sketchbooks, these drawings show things I saw, places, people... It was later when I return to Portugal that I started to colored them and realise what I had in my hands... a brand new project. I´ve been to Israel two more times after that, one in November and the last one in April, always with my sketchbooks, these times to see more of the country. I can only hope I have found something is Israel worth sharing... something good.
Apart from all the "war and terrorism" (thank you, mass media), I confess I didn´t knew all that much about Israel. It´s just one of those places you hear all the time in the eight o´clock news, but when you think about how it really is, there´s a kind of blur in your head...
I can´t say that I love those three weeks... Tel-Aviv was so hot and humid. That really got to me. And with my friend working most of the time, in a restaurant, as most of Tel-Aviv young people do, I learned later, I was mostly left to myself and with nothing to do but wonder around, I found myself drawing all the time.
Done in one A5 size sketchbook, and several A6 sketchbooks, these drawings show things I saw, places, people... It was later when I return to Portugal that I started to colored them and realise what I had in my hands... a brand new project. I´ve been to Israel two more times after that, one in November and the last one in April, always with my sketchbooks, these times to see more of the country. I can only hope I have found something is Israel worth sharing... something good.
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About Me
- Ricardo Cabral
- Born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, found out that has a talent for drawing...is currently trying to make a living out of it...
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5 comments:
Hi,
Was just reading what you wrote about your trips to Israel and I started thinking about Joe Sacco and his work Palestine (perhaps because today I sent this book out to a colleague of mine...) and, it seems to me, that in a way you're doing something which is very different from Sacco's work but also similar. Different because you're not talking about politics but similar because you're still trying to capture beauty, human and otherwise.
So, I'd like to know if you agree with this and if you think that, simply by putting an illustration book out about Israel it kind of makes it political in a way.
What do you think? Do you think one can separate the images from the content that the word Israel bring to us?
Actually I'm quite interested to see what you will be writing in your comic!
hi, I like Israel,Ilike Jerusalem, and your drawing at excellent,very, very good..
visit to my blog..
Carla
excelente trabalho, gosto muito.
abraço
Ana cristina Dias
what materials do you use for your paintings? they almost look digital buti honestly can't tell
Comprei o livro por acaso e adoro olhar para ele de vez em quando, há possibilidade de arranjar umas telas grandes de algumas imagens? Obrigado.
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