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Snapshots from a World Heritage site in Guatemala

This is one of the busiest times of the year in Antigua, a UNESCO World Heritage site that welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors around Easter.
Antigua’s streets are narrow cobblestone and the sidewalks narrower still, about a person and a half wide. This did not leave me much space to set up my sketching stool near the arch. But I backed myself against a building about three feet from the corner and sketched the arch through the crowd.

There is not much elbow room to sketch the live processions either, but I was determined to make an effort in my smallest sketchbook.
Members of various religious collectives carry on their shoulders the baroque wood-carved parade floats depicting the stages of the passion of Jesus. They pass over colorful alfombras — carpets of arranged flowers and intricate patterns of dyed wood shavings, each made by a different family mere hours beforehand.

In contrast with the lively processions, my sketchbook of Antigua also includes this quiet view of colorful houses in Calle de Chajón.
Susan Schaffhausen is a member of Urban Sketchers Twin Cities.
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