The most famous artworks in the western culture were commissioned work.
The Sistine Chapel for example, is a masterpiece made by Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli not as a capricious way to express their inner feelings but was ordered for a purpose.
I don’t do commissioned work form churches (yet), but I do have some clients, who have a vision on how their work should look like.
I like the client who don’t. They know what they want in words, but leave the visual part for me. This work is no Sistine Chapel but was ordered from my favorite photographers. Their clients are mainly couples in their wedding day.

Albert Einstein once said:
“If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
One thing is for sure, my table is mostly messy. It usually starts fine. All the paper pieces are in their boxes, the glue is near the scissors, but once the search for the right color starts, the mess comes along.
Summer is here as you can tell from the illustration
(paper and glue on a pine wood, 40x 30 cm).

This catalog was published in 2005 for my “Ripples of Glue” exhibition.  It was exhibited  in “Lohamei Haghetaot” gallery.
I still have some copies of it left. If you want, I will be happy to send you one.  Please leave a message in the contact page and include your home address.

It happened today. The phone rang from “Am Oved” publishing house.
The book I have been working on for the last two years (and dreaming about for five years) is officially released to the stores.
You can have a look on some of the illustrations here at my website. The beautiful song was written by O. Hillel. The song tells the story of a child that is sent to the store to buy some groceries, but every time he is out walking in the boulevard, something draws his attention and he brings home things he finds but no groceries. His mother worries about him, but is always touched by the sensitivity of her child and all she says: “Yossi, my wonderful child”.

Sketchbooks are my favorite companion. The paper dolls, the illustrations, they all began with a sketch.
Mr. Cupressus was a sketch too, only 7.5 cm height. but now he is a 84 x 32 cm doll, made of felt. His shirt holes made my thumb lose it’s nerve sense for six month! (yes, it came back).

It is funny to see how similar our dog and cat are. They will always keep a distance from each other, but will usually go to the same area or clean themselves at the same time. Ooh,  aren’t they sweet?