"Winter Sunrise" (Drawing Video)

Yesterday I created this little drawing video on my iPad. I am sending this out to wish everyone peace, love, health, and hope in 2026.

Menorah on the Beach (Drawing Video)

Here is my menorah video for 2025.  I wanted to create this menorah to remember the victims of the attack at Bondi Beach and in honor of the Jewish community of Australia.   I created this on my iPad with the Procreate app.  

Reposting: Menorah in Window

Back in 2016, I used the Brushes app on my iPad to create this little video.  (Like the Procreate app, the Brushes app captured  a stroke-by-stroke drawing video.  I have already posted this video a couple of times but decided to repost it this year because it shows a  menorah in front of a window. Chanukah celebrates religious freedom and displaying the menorah a way of claiming that freedom. In some times and in some places, Jews can do that confidently. These days there is enough to be afraid of just about everywhere, apparently, but still you see menorahs in the window, outside the synagogue, in the town square, on the beach. . . .  

Reposting: A Quick Little Menorah

I made this on my iPad back in 2021, a year in which Chanukah came very soon after Thanksgiving and I was very pressed for time.  I wrote that I was thinking, "I don't have time to make a Chanukah video this year.  And then I thought, maybe I do.  So I opened my Procreate app on my iPad and drew this little menorah.  It's not fancy; I didn't even use a stylus.  But still it makes me happy and I am glad I did this. So if you want to see the candles light up, just press play."  And I am still glad.  So here's a menorah for times when it just doesn't seem possible (we are too busy, too discouraged, too sad) to light that menorah.  Light it anyway. . .

Reposting: Sunflower Menorah (Drawing Video)

For Chanukah Day 3 (2025), I am reposting my "Sunflower Menorah" video.  I created this several years ago in support of the people of Ukraine. Made on my iPad with the Procreate app. If you want to see these sunflowers turn into a menorah, just press play.

Reposting: Yellow Ribbon Menorah

I created this last year, using Procreate on my iPad in honor of the hostages of the October 7th attack. This is the final frame of a drawing video in which the yellow ribbon turns into a menorah. 

Reposing "Sunset Celebration" (Oil Bar Painting)

This is one of my two oil bar paintings displayed in December at TAG art gallery in SOWA. I based this painting on a photo that I took (from the passenger seat) as we were returning from a wedding in Maine.