Monday, July 21, 2014

"The Spontaneous Guide" UPDATED


One thing I never mentioned about visiting the hot spring: there were three Brits there who don't speak much Spanish. So I wound up translating for them. It was only afterwards that I found that one of them, Steve Simpson, was an artist invited by the Tourist Board to visit and illustrate La Palma as part of #onthedraw. Even then, I wasn't expecting to see myself on Facebook.

I love it! Everybody I know is rolling up - cuddly, bird's nest of red hair, open mouth, waving arms - it's bang on. And one friend was kind enough to say that she likes the rapt attention of my audience. Oh, and that's Steve with the beard.

UPDATE: The drawing is not by Steve Simpson, it's by his host on the island Victor Jaubert.

2 comments:

Patsy said...

Tour guides are supposed to have a bird's nest of red hair, open mouths and waving arms. I'm speaking from four years personal experience.

Jan Baynham said...

Love it, Sheila! ;-)