creativity

Frenzy of openings and Art events

by joeralt on September 14, 2009

This week in Tel Aviv, the art scene exploded into a frenzy of the new season’s openings to which I didn’t bother to attend since it all felt just too overwhelming.An event that is supposed to be a Biennale has turned into an Annual event called Art TLV and same as last year I heard [...]

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Work in progress

by joeralt on September 2, 2009

The summer is still in full blast here but it is possible to feel some relief, especially in the evening when the breeze is coming from the sea. And with the breeze, comes the desire to return indoors and start chewing on some new compositions. I am not sure how it is for other artists, [...]

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Sketching class in cafe

by joeralt on April 13, 2009

I truly believe that it is very important for a developing artist, to free his hand and mind by exercising the gentle motor functions of fingers and hand helping thus to release visual preconceptions and allow intuitive understanding of the Form.

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Magical moments

by joeralt on February 21, 2009

Piano Bar “8mm” is one of my favorite places in my neighborhood of Florentin.  During the day it is a lovely relaxed and peaceful cafe where I do a lot of my writing, sketching and man watching. but at night this place transforms into a magical performance and jamming dungeon of the best kind with [...]

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Sunday morning, some thoughts on creativity

by joeralt on September 14, 2008

Sunday morning is a working day in Israel but ever since I lived in other places in the world where Sunday is a leisure day, I try not to rush into the week and slide into it easily ,without haste. It means, usually sitting with a cup of coffee in one of the many of [...]

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Unique Internet Presence

by joeralt on September 10, 2008

Few days ago I jumped into this adventure of starting my own private blog independent of any other public sites that I am on like Flickr, YouTube and Facebook, a place where I can get a little deeper into all the many issues that concern me as an artist and the very first issue that [...]

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