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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Dolores Hidalgo


Pen&Ink and watercolor on HP Lanaquarelle 10” x 7”
I always wanted to visit the museums in Dolores Hidalgo in the state of Guanajuato. Dolores Hidalgo is just a 35 minute drive from San Miguel de Allende, it is not as popular among expats as San Miguel de Allende. Although Dolores Hidalgo is also known for making traditional and extravagant ice cream flavors, this city is better known nation wide as the city where the Mexican Independence from Spain started in 1810. Everything is about Miguel Hidalgo in the city of Dolores Hidalgo as Ignacio Allende is to the city of San Miguel de Allende, two of the national heroes of the Mexican Independence War. 
We spent the afternoon in the main jardin after visiting two museums, the House of the Father of the Independence Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and the Museum of Independence. There’s a statute at the center of the jardin, it’s a monument to Hidalgo shown in the sketch, also the sketch shows the church in the background where the he started the movement. The afternoon was so beautiful, the jacaranda trees were blooming, vendors selling their snacks and families spending the evening savoring ice cream and chilling on the benches around the jardin, all under the shade of very old trees, on a hot day. Funny that I noticed how street vendors change along the day. Tamale and atole vendors in the morning, ice cream in the afternoons and hamburgers and hot dogs at night. Yeah we ate all.
I included later in the sketch, a typical family passing by, the face of the man carrying the toddler looks upset, but it wasn’t the case, it just came out that way. I used Lamp black paint to make the dark green of the statue and the dark blues of the family, lamp black paint....what a beauty! I’m loving using black paint!
Do you want to know what a extravagant flavor for ice cream is? Take a look! Avocado, shrimp, whiskey, beer, mezcal, tequila, mole sauce, rose petals, garambullo, marzipan, carrot, chicharron, corn, aloe vera, and then some flavors we all know. It was a fun visit to see museums and to taste at least a dozen of ice cream flavors!

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