Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Sometimes I do a little art creation and then put it aside until it speaks to me again. I started this piece before the Yucatan trip while doing some collage with my young students, showing them how to weave strips of cut-up watercolor paintings. I don’t recall having anything very specific in mind. [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on February 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Slowly the door on the Yucatan vacation is closing. I no longer feel the surge of the ocean nor find the sand lingering on my things. One last sketch from a photo of Andy enjoying the vacation occupation, lying in a hammock with a good book.
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on February 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last breakfast in Mexico at L’oasis.
We learn that there’s a whole community of Americans and Canadians here in Puerto Morelos, hence the good breakfast with pancakes and Lattes.
Yucateco Contest Prize Winners!
Favorite foods - Nachos and Zamas stone hearth pizza
Favorite beach - at La Vita e Bella
Favorite activity - (Ben) surf kayaking, (Andy) climbing [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Day 7 Uninterrupted sun now and hot out in it. A mother and children from Chiapas set up their colorful crafts for sale in the restaurant.
4pm Still a bit woozy from my morning snorkeling trip out in the small diving boat which docks on our beach. Two hours, with a [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on February 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Faces are on most of the Mayan hieroglyphs. They knew they were beauty incarnate.
The exquisite patterns of nature. A lacy seaweed on shore becomes a stamp for the watercolor.
Day 5 we move from one beach cabana hotel, La Vita e Bella, (where most of the visitors are European) to another down the beach, [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on February 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
February 11 Sunday morning we arrive at our Palapa heaven, La Vita e Bella in Tulum, peal off so many hundreds of pesos for our two nights (I’m used to using credit card plastic) that there’s scarcely enough left for two meals. I’m in a perpetual state of dismay over the cost of [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on February 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Days 1-2
February 9, 3:45pm Cancun time in the air over lots of water. . . too bumpy a ride to sketch the lovely Mayan woman sleeping across the aisle. We made our connection in Houston, but at the door of the plane in San Francisco our bags were wisked away to the “black [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on February 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, sort of back (from our 8 day adventure in the Mexican Riviera). I can still hear the ocean and feel the rhythmn of the waves - sigh! Along with my two sons and girlfriend I brought my watercolor palette and 5 X 8″ Watercolor Moleskin sketchbook, and got down as much of [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on February 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Haven’t gotten over to my figure studios lately and I was feeling itchy to sketch figures, so I doodled them instead. They turned out to be dancers, I guess satisfying another unmet need - to dance.
This will be my last post for about 10 days til I get back from the Yucatan, hopefully [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on February 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Wanting to be at peace about the loss of my chickens, I collected their feathers from the piles around the yard. THat’s all that’s left - these beautiful feathers that kept them so warm during our freezing spell last month. The feathers that made them beauty queens to me. I thought about [...]
