Took Toby to another museum, the Reina Sofia, where Picasso's Guernica lives. On the left are my notes about it, plus other stuff we saw there. The museum is huuuuuge, so there was a lot to see, including this stationary mobile (stationary? it sat on the ground) outside in the courtyard.
We had a nice lunch afterward, and I took this portrait of the two of us. I'm on the left.
Happy Birthday, Katherine! April 1, 2010, was probably the only time that I haven't spoken to my sister on her birthday, but I did manage to email her.
Went shopping with the girls at El Rastro flea market, where 3 of us bought matching cowboy boots, then I dragged Toby to another museum, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. I drew this woman from a Manet painting.
Went back out with the girls to dinner and a flamenco show. This is a quick sketch of the theater. It is a very loose sketch for the same reason the last sketch in this post is very loose.
On March 31 we all (minus Toby) took a double-decker tour bus around Madrid. We stopped across from the palace and had a snack in a nice little bar, where the waiter was mesmerized by my 3 beautiful blond cousins :)
After our snack, Little Aldo played on a playground while I drew this.
We walked over to a plaza and everyone got massages while I drew these two buildings and a guy played a Beatles song on the flute.
We went to the Mercato San Marco and saw the Plaza Mayor, then Angeles and I went to get tickets for a flamenco show and a bullfight. In Plaza del Sol she took this picture of me under this symbol of Madrid.
Cousin Cara joined us on March 30 and we all went to breakfast at the Museo de Jamon, where we ate every morning for the rest of the trip. They have a 1 euro menu, so we would have breakfast there and then go next door to Dunkin Bake Place (yep, Dunkin Doughnuts!) for a doughnut.
Anyway, this is a cloister within the Museo del Prado. Toby told me later that as I was sketching it the woman next to me was surreptitiously photographing me sketching. I was totally cool with that, as I had done that on the way to the Prado when I stopped and took a picture of the man below in the awesome hat.
For his 18th birthday my little brother David asked me for a sketch of him playing rugby. I was so pleased with the way it turned out, and he said no one else has anything like it.
Here is what it looks like framed
Please visit Sketchwork at elizabethalley.com/sketchwork . After 12 years with Blogger, I am incorporating my blog into my website becaus...
