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On the road with my sketchbook (Mexico)

2/9/2023

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2023 got off to a great start with a week's trip to Mexico City, where I'd last been many years ago. It was a wonderful week of sights, smells, good food, nice people, interesting history and art ... and a few sketches. Fewer than I'd thought, mostly because there was so much going on and not enough time to stop to think about it!
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It was January, and while mornings were chilly, days were in the 70's and the many parks were spilling with greenery and flowers, including masses of purple and hot pink bougainvillea. This sketch is of elegant, dog-loving Parque Mexico in the Condesa neighborhood.
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We had a few tour adventures, including one to the UNESCO World Heritage site of ancient Teotihuacan, about an hour outside the city - stately, evocative, truly awesome. If you're going, take the tour we did, which included lunch afterwards with the guides' family - fabulous enchiladas with homemade mole. Too busy eating and having fun to draw it, but here's a pic.
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We also toured historic, colorful, kind-of-crazy Xochimilco and the vast world of Mexico City's largest market - amazing. No drawings, but what memories! 
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Frida and Diego - of course. Their working studios, their homes together and apart. Every inch a tribute to their unique stories, their love for their country, and art.
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One of the main reasons I wanted to go back to Mexico City was the Anthropology Museum, in my mind one of the best museums in the world. The treasure of artifacts telling the story of Mexico's long fascinating history is beyond description. I've often thought (as an art historian and former ceramics teacher) that no artisans in any culture have ever surpassed the imagination and skill of these workers in clay and stone. Again, too busy looking to draw!
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A stop at the central Artisan Market was a delight, an overload of handmade goods from all over Mexico. And in the heart of it, a sweet little cafe where, with a painted chair, a glass of lemonade, and a generous platter of guacamole, there was no excuse.
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I expect to create finished scenes for my International series from some of my Mexico sketches, so stay tuned. www.macgregor-art.com/international-series.
If you have plans for a trip to Mexico City, look for the tour Teothicuacan With A Local (Brothers Hugo and Gabriel) and the tour of Mercado Merced with
Eat Mexico (ask for Hector!)

Have you been to Mexico City? Are any of these memories your memories too?
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    Marilyn MacGregor

    Artist/Designer/Illustrator - Drawing is my way to see and think about life in all its dimensions, color, meanings, and pleasures
    Travels with a sketchbook, illustrations with spirit and a bit of whimsy

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