Travel Drawings from Sketching in Chile & Patagonia
From October to January 2012, I created these travel drawings in Chile. I traveled from the northern Atacama Desert to as far south as Cochrane, in beautiful Patagonia. Chile offered some of the best scenes for travel sketching, bringing me near La Serena, along the coast to Valparaiso, Santiago, the island of Chiloe and Patagonia.
Barbeque on an Iquique beach with my friend, an engineer and boss of a mining firm in Maria Elena.
These bones I found in the Atacama Desert near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, so I made a travel drawing.
Here’s a drawing of a balcony in Valparaiso, at “El Cuartel” where I satyed for a week, enjoining protests.
Sea lions on the tail fins of a submarine in Valdivia, Chile.
Had to spend 85 dollars for new pages at the US embassy in Santiago, Chile… so I drew it.
A quick sketch of the Chilean Patagonian town Puyehuapi.
These two sisters hosted me hitchhiking in Chile, so I made this portrait drawing of them to gift on Christmas Day.
The panamerican highway official ends in Quellon, Chiloe, Chile–here’s a travel drawing.
Niebla had one of the strongest forts in South America, here’s a cannon from there.
Sketch of the Punta Arenas cemetery, one of the most beautiful in Chile’s Patagonia.
Hitchhiked to Puerto Natales, in Chilean Patagonia, and made a travel drawing of teh bay.
The bossman of the mining company in northern Chile brought me to Maria Elena, where I saw Illapu and Eva Ayllon.
A travel drawing of a cathedral in La Serena, Chile.
I stopped at the Lapa Waterfall south of Santiago, Chile, to make this travel sketching.
I drew this at the Kunstmann brewery in the south of Chile. Good beer sampler.
Sketching the huge mosque in Coquimbo, Chile.
Sketching the church in Chiu Chiu, Atacama. It was a much more authentic town than San Pedro.
The island of Chiloe, in the south of Chile, is known for its unique wooden churches. I drew this one.
This is a travel sketch of a lake in Chile, south of Santiago.
Hitchhiking on the Carretera austral in the south of Chile, Patagonia mountains make for great travel drawings.
Drawing the bay in Dalcahue, Chiloe, Chile. Sammy and I stayed there for a good 4 days, relaxing and playing Scrabble.
This man, Luis Santander, came up to me in Maria Elena. He’s a miner, and many gathered to watch me create travel sketches. He made me draw him.
Hitchhiking the Carretera Austral requires you to take many ferries, called transbordador.
