Travel drawings from one month sketching in Nicaragua, September 2010. Traveling through Central America brought me into contact with wonderful people, and I found myself especially attracted to Nicaragua. After Haiti, Nicaragua is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. I won’t say that this is why I enjoyed the country, but I will say it must be a factor in why I felt my interactions there to be particularly authentic. I was in Leon, Laguna de Apoyo, Granada, El Rama, Bluefields, Pearl Lagoon and Ometepe.
This a drawing of Randy, a Nicaraguan on the Caribbean coast.
Travel drawing of the El Rama Nicaragua port as I wait outside. Eventually, the guards didn’t charge me and let me in.
A sketch of a goose at the house of a congressman who picked me up.
Sketch of a Spanish Fort in Granada, Nicaragua
Travel drawing of the cathedral in Leon, Nicaragua. It was a tall, one-story city.
This statue sketch I took down in Granada.
Pearl Lagoon was one of the poorest communities I’ve been to. I sketched this Moravian church there.
With Toinon, I boarded a ferry to the volcanic island of Ometepe, in the Lago de Nicaragua. This is a sketch from that short trip.
Eder sorting shrimp in Pearl Lagoon. The people there follow the seasons as they shift from shrimp to fish to nothing. A travel sketch of Nicaraguan.
A travel drawing of a shoe shine statue in Nicaragua.
Bluefields is on the Caribbean coast, accessible via an 8-hour ferry. The Caribbean coast inhabitants are the black descendants of marooned slaves.
Idriss was a host. I rode with him on his motorcycle into the country, where we found hto geysers. Sketching in Nicaragua.
A travel sketch drawing in the streets of Granada, Nicaragua.
At the lookout above Laguna de Apoyo, I drew this view over the crater to Granada and Lago de Nicaragua in the background.
La Libertad, Nicaragua. Travel drawing the Pepsi sign, which is rare these days.
