Isla Mujeres is beautiful, just like every tourist guidebook will tell you. It has the finest, whitest sand I’ve every seen and the ocean is a beautiful gorgeous color.
It’s just that I don’t really enjoy beaches like Playa Norte, the island’s most popular beach. But the sketching is always good with so many people to watch and draw. Still, one sketch at the beach and I’m ready to find something else to do.
I thought I’d visit the little alleys behind the beach and hoped to find a local market. I didn’t find one, but I did find a lot of shops selling souvenirs. Fun and colorful stuff to draw: blouses and plates, colorful skulls and hats.
The wonderful thing about sketching is that as an observer, almost any place is interesting. Although what you notice sometimes when you look really closely is quite sad.
Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook 
I visited and lived on Isla years ago, before all the tourists and condo builders found it. I agree it has the most beautiful beaches and sand, and I was very lucky to have stretches of it to myself or a few friends; to hang out at the little cafes and ride mopeds around, then dance in the square. Thanks for a wonderful treat, your art captures it!
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Your sketches are lovely and very lively just a little note on this one, it is called Isla Mujeres which in Spanish means “Island of the Women”
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It is called Islas MUJERES.
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Thank you Cris and Gia for catching the typo. I corrected it. I tried finding the origin of the name, it’s not very clear.
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