Isla Mujeres Art Camp, Day 2

January 13, 2018. Day 2, Art Camp. Didn’t sleep so well; pillows were huge! I also needed to wear the earphones all night and was randomly sleeping and waking up to podcasts and made no sense when I’d only hear a few sentences before drifting off again.

8:30 breakfast, 9:00 discussion welcome talk and a demo on the rocks. The sun here is so hot and my legs were frying and the rest of myself was covered up. How can people sunbathe in this! Monica said this was the hottest day yet. Demo was on the rocks near the water and how to get started. So too much overwhelming for me. 

After demo I carried my pile of junk to find some shade and didn’t find any right away. Drew scribbled one horrid depiction of a sea grape, then drew a better one, then gave up and wandered around to another beach area and badly drew some people sitting in the water. Gave up again and wandered in the water and photo’d a bird and drew the bird in black charcoal crayon. Of course lost my water brush but duh, there was water right there and also my finger could be a brush. That was okay. Could use one more line in there and I'll pencil it in. The breast of the bird got a bit lost in the shading via sea water. 

Back to the lodging and our stuff has been moved to room 7 (because of my princess and the pea syndrome). Lunch at Letty’s where I had 2 servings of garlic shrimp and a beer. The shrimp was crunchy and garlicky and still had the shells on so there was some extra flavor. Took a golf cart tour of the island circle and spotted some places I would look at again. Kate and I took a walk to the grocery store AKI Supermercado and looked at food and then a jewelry store where I bought a silver ring of the island. Then we walked on a bit and found the walkway along the water – no wheels allowed. Very peaceful and not crowded with people and bars. Will maybe walk along there on Wednesday.

Came back, took golf cart to dinner at some other place where I had fresh grouper with red sauce diablo (not very diablo) but it was good. Walked back to the hotel because the golf cart driving seems too complicated and you have to park far so might as well walk. 

9:00 pm opening ceremony. We all shared our inspirational quote. We all wrote down our blockage and burned it in a candle. We all had to come up with 3 words to describe ourselves but I couldn’t; too much pressure. I still can’t think of 3 words. 1. Independent, 2.____________, 3. ______________. Off to bed soon.

Today was frustrating because I wasn’t feeling like I was getting it. The ocean and sky are too big and the rocks are too craggy. The place is beautiful and warm and I imagine inspiring to people who can use the brush. I will work on focus.