One of my favourite places to sketch is a cemetery! Not any old cemetery mind you, but Recoleta Cemetery, where the rich and famous of Buenos Aires have been buried for centuries. There are no flat graves here, just mausoleums and tombs (maybe they’re the same thing, I don’t know). They are laid out in streets just like a little town—except all the residents are dead!

It has been closed since before the pandemia, and I just recently heard it had reopened, so I wandered up there after my morning coffee today. My sketchbook was itching to come out! Here’s what I did.

It belongs to one Brigadier General Tomas Guido, who died in 1888. The one to the right belongs to a famous character in Argentine History called Admiral Brown. I’ll go back and do his monument one of these days and tell you his story when I post the sketch.