I’ve been very bad about keeping up my blog this time. If you’re one of those who have been checking back to see what I’ve been doing, I apologize.
The fact is, I really have been working more this time than last, which means I don’t get around to see as many things. I tend to be out more at night with friends.
Anyway, I thought I’d post some photos of my sketches here, and I’ll try to sort out my other photos and post some of them soon.
This is the English Tower, so called because it was donated to Buenos Aires by the English while they were over here building railways and such like.
This is a lovely cafe inside a museum. I went there with a bunch of women from InterNations and found it so beautiful I just had to go back and sketch. You sit in the cafe and look through the arches into a lovely courtyard garden. I may go back again and sketch it from a different angle.
I paid a visit to the Botanical Gardens last weekend. It’s a beautiful place, full of not only plants and trees, but also some lovely statuary. The problem was it was hotter than hell, and the only seat I could find in the shade was opposite this big weird cactus plant!
Last Sunday Cecilia and I went to visit Costanera Sur, a lovely conservation area between a very posh barrio called Puerto Madero and the Rio de la Plata. It took us three hours to walk around it, and we were so shattered we went to one of the expensive restaurants in the area and drank a bottle of Malbec. Oh yes, and we had some food to go with it!
This is a view of the river from one of the sheltered lookout points. It was hot here too!
One day I went with Cecilia and a friend of hers to a huge park area in Palermo called 3 de Febrero. This particular lake is called Lago Regata, and I was fun watching dogs chasing the swans — without getting too close of course! It was hot here too!
This is the Monument to the Flag in Rosario, which I wrote about before. What a colossal monument, and very impressive.
This eternal flame burns over the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Monument to the Flag.
This was another hot day, when I sat on the edge of a planter and sketched part of 9 de Julio Avenue, apparently the widest avenue in South America. As usual, my sense of proportion failed me, as the Obelisco is much much taller than it looks here. But as is my usual excuse in these cases, a sketch is just an impression and this is enough to evoke the memory for me.
The magnificent entrance to Recoleta Cemetery. I haven’t sketched inside it this time, but I may do that another day.
That’s it for now. I’ll post some more sketches before I go back to Toronto after I’ve built up a bit more of a collection.