Going to retreat back to my internet-less cave now. It’s pretty late and I don’t want to go back too late into the night… the night scares me here.

Maybe I’ll work on some digipaintings or something. Or game. Or keep reading Ready Player One.

Some tree studies and a little boat, also in Xochimilco.

And that’s the end of my Mexico sketches! There wasn’t that much time to draw on that trip, because there was a lot of time constraints and rushing to see all the family possible. ALL OF THE FAMILY. But it was a wonderful experience to get to know my roots and culture better, and visit museums of ancient cultures. I’m so inspired by the Aztec art and mythos!

A sketch while my family and I were slowly drifting down a canal on a gondola (trajinera) in Xochimilco.

Some sketches of the sculptures/reliefs on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl.

I started a drawing of a nopal (aka a prickly pear), but then we had to leave before I finished. So then I went BAM ABSTRACT TIME.

This is a sketch of a barely visible hillside chapel named Templo del Pocito, just outside La Basilica in Mexico City.

A palm tree we drove by in Cuernavaca, on a street called Tulipanes or something. I have no idea why I drew that palm tree, ok.

And the second anecdote….

And now my adventures in Mexico.

We begin with two anecdotes…

A short study of one of Gustave Moreau’s paintings, Leda.

And that’s the last sketch from my Paris sketchbook!

Several of Gustave Moreau’s sculptures from his studio-museum.

A curious cottage from the Versailles palace gardens.

I love and miss watercolors!

There was a bronze cast sculpture of one of Degas’ many ballerina dancers.

Several caricature sculptures of politicians/other officials by Honore Daumier. Goodness how I love his work.

I hate drawing in pencil now, especially because of the smudging )8

There was a violinist outside the Musee de Orsay. Lots of talented musicians on the streets/Metro.