Since we arrived in Merida we have encountered many new and wonderful things this city has offered us. The people are always friendly, the food couldn't be better, and our surroundings are just gorgeous. Last week we were presented with a small oppurtunity to give back. During one of our many visits to the Italian Coffee Company, we were asked by a young man, Jesus, who is a waiter at the ITC, to draw a portrait of his girlfriend. He handed us a photo of a lovely young girl and we gladly accepted.
Today was one of our cafe days. We started off the day by searching the main square for interesting textures and making a rubbing of them for later inspiration. Murphy and Alli found some very interesting and beautiful ones on trash cans surprisingly. Needless to say we got a few strange looks from passerbys. Later on we shopped around in a few stores for guyaberas (traditional yucatanean men's shirts) and headed on to none other than the Hipster Cafe. We had lunch and sketched there for a while.
After a siesta back at the casa we decided to find a good place to eat dinner and draw. Dinner was at a well known Mexican chain restaurant (I'm blanking on the name..) and drawing afterwards was at McDonalds. Clay and I worked on Jesus' portrait while Alli and Murphy did some individual stuff.
A slow day but a good day.
Christina
No comments:
Post a Comment