Braiding

I suppose part of going someplace exotic is doing stuff that’s a bit exotic. Apparently, hair braiding is such a thing. Sort of a Caribbean rite of passage. This young Mexican woman was braiding a German tourist’s very long hair. I drew this sketch, then a few others, went to lunch, bicycled to a different beach and back... and she was still braiding. To make matters worse, neither could speak the other’s language. I had enough time to do an oil painting of these two.