Guanajuato, Mexico - Day 16

December 20th, 2025

Last day in Mexico. At today's workshop, we covered sketching crowds. We also had a postcard sketch exchange amongst workshop participants.

Checking out the postcard sketches during happy hour

Group dinner

USk Asheville representing :)

Guanajuato, Mexico - Day 15

 December 19th, 2025

Today's lesson was on sketching panoramas, which Rita Sabler is well known for. Many of us felt intimidated, but she broke down her lesson into manageable steps.

Breakfast at Hugo's hotel. A different vegetarian dish every morning and they were amazing!

A small portion of what we would sketch

The landmarks I chose for my sketch

Rita sharing a small piece of one of her panoramas

Heading to a hotel where we would sketch from a balcony

Danielle setting up. The scene is behind her.

Akalu working on his sketch

Dory sketching

Kris and Carol

My sketch

Rita

Danielle, Dory, Carol, and I went to a bar for dinner
where we did some planning for an upcoming Asheville event.

Pinatas were being strung between buildings on the street.
Adults and kids would take turns hitting them.

Guanajuato, Mexico - Day 14

December 18th, 2025

Today we headed out with Rita and sketched a complicated scene with strong foreground, middle-ground, and background layers.

In the evening, a couple of sketchers and I had an interest in seeing a concert at the Teatro Juarez. I had no idea what would be playing, but we heard that the inside of the building is spectacular. I went to the ticket office ahead of time to buy my ticket. I was able to ask for 1 ticket for the night's performance. He told me the cost. I tried paying by credit card, but I think they may have only taken cash. So, I haven't learned too many big numbers yet in Spanish. I thought he said the concert cost something like 700 pesos. I didn't think I had enough, so I left. Outside I counted all of my money and had just enough. I went back and handed them all my money. He gave me lots of money back. It only cost something like 126 pesos. Oops!

The concert featured Ivan Lopez Reynoso (countertenor) and Alexander Vivero (a 16-year-old child prodigy pianist), performing mostly songs from operas. It was excellent. 

Sketching scene for the day

Carol and Rita

Danielle and Dory

Lunch with Akalu, Arce, Allen, Yvette, Carol, and others

Akalu

Sketching our group during happy hour using water soluble ink and a water brush

A ramen restaurant - choose your packaged ramen and make a bowl there.
I kind of wanted to sketch it but didn't want to figure out how to get vegetarian ramen.

I joined Arse and Kris for a piano & countertenor concert at the Teatro Juarez