From March to April, 2011, I created these travel drawings sketching in Ecuador. I hitchhikedfrom the border with Colombia in Tulcan to Quito, the Amazon Jungle of Misahualli, Baños, El Carmen, Montanita, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Loja and Zumba. Ecuador is a diverse country where travel is made easy by the eagerness of its inhabitants.
I hitched to Misahualli, in Ecuador{s Amazon Jungle. There, small monkeys had charge of the town center, harrassing dogs and humans alike.
I camped on a promontory above a defunct mine just outside the town of Baños, Ecuador. I spoke briefly with a man taking milk to market on his goat before sitting to travel the volcano mist.
A travel drawing of the Cathedral in Cuenca, Ecuador
Sitting on the coast of Ecuador, at Bahia, drawing the waves.
I was in Ayampe with Julian, and we were working at the workshop of a Kiwi’s tribal art.
Drawing of gold in the National Bank Museum of Ecuador in Cuenca.
I was picked up hitchhiking new El Carmen, Ecuador, and taken to the family farm among gumdrop hills of green. We rode donkeys drunk to seel cheese at the highway.
Travel sketching in Ecuador was lovely in Loja, near the border of Peru, in Ecuador.
I hitchhiked into the Amazon, to Misahualli, in Ecuador. The wall of jungle was loud at night.
A drawing of an old man in Quito, sitting among the pastel-hued homes.
A travel sketch of the Angel in Quito, Ecuador. The Angel, as it turns out, is located on the most dangerous hill of the city. A group of men followed us, but they seemed deterred when we started walking quickly toward them.
I visited the Cuenca, Ecuador museum of gold, and found the Shuar shrunken head exhibit. Naturally, it was great material for drawing, and the guard, who at first was not happy, allowed me to sketch.
When I arrived after 6 hours over thin dirt mountain roads to Zumba, I made friends with the soliders at the local army base, and they allowed me to pitch tent inside the bounds. This is a statue of a flying ant, which come like locusts.
A large, open park in Quito that was asking to be drawn.
