What to do when you don’t have a camera.
18 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in illustrations Tags: Paso Fino, Ponce, Puerto Rico
It took me a while to figure it out, but when I was feeling furious with myself for forgetting to pack my battery charger for my trip to Ponce, Puerto Rico, I eventually came up with a solution… sort of. Break out the old drawing pad and pencils. The results will not cause swoons of delight or inspire toasts of celebration, but it was fun to actually sit down and concentrate on the subject of interest, to slow down and note every single detail. I posted some drawings I did one morning in a park dedicated to the heroes of political self-determination in the Caribbean (Martí, Duarte, Bolivar and Muñoz Rivera). They are on my main blog, Blogblot. Here are a couple of others. It works well with buildings and statues that stand still and pose without any difficulty, no matter how long it takes for you to draw. It didn’t work very well for the greatest visual treat of my week on the Southern coast of PR, the cavalcade of horsemen that gathered one Saturday evening in Salinas, strutting round and round along the port side road on their beautiful Paso Fino horses.
The drawing pad kept me busy as I tried to figure out how to get back to town.
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I saw every facet on that façade. Would I have seen it all with a camera?
