Rhoda Draws

Growing up in Chicago, I always liked to draw. When I started High School, the “advisor” waved test scores in my face and yelled that I was “too smart to be an artist!” After many years of trying to do what “smart” people did, I proved her wrong. I wasn’t all that smart.

I changed my name to “Rhoda Draws” legally in 2009. I’m an Urban Sketcher and I teach “Sketching Fast & Loose” workshops in San Miguel and other magical towns in Mexico. Website: https://ontheRHODAgain.com/

As a professional caricature artist, I’ve had decades of experience creating rapid drawings of people at events. An early pioneer of digital painting, I used Corel Painter for live caricature events as well as studio work. This led to publication of numerous books on the creative use of both Painter and Adobe Photoshop.

I also use digital media to create quick gestural drawings of live models. Some of these drawings are combined digitally or printed on archival rice paper. Many such combinations inspire larger mixed media paintings on canvas.

In 2018 I moved to San Miguel from the San Francisco Bay Area. My house in Colonia Guadalupe, is called “Casa de Dibujo.” (House of Drawing). You can see my urban sketches and figurative drawings at Galeria San Francisco in La Aurora. Larger figurative paintings and portraits can be viewed by appointment at “Casa de Dibujo.”

“Hotel Sautto”

ink and aquarelle pencils
8.5 x 6” + frame $225 USD

“La Parroquia from the back”

ink and aquarelle pencils
8.5 x 6” + frame $225 USD

“Calle Relox with horn player”

ink and aquarelle pencils
8.5 x 6” + frame $225 USD

“Chapel of Jimmy Ray”

Ink an watercolor
12 x 16” + frame $400 USD

“Catrina at Hacienda de Guadalupe”

ink and aquarelle pencils
6 x 8.5” + frame $225 USD

“Plaza Civica Sept 2022”

ink and aquarelle pencils
6 x 8.5” + frame $225 USD

“Boda Mexicana”

Aquarelle
12 x 16” + frame $400 USD

“Silvera’s Restaurant”

ink and aquarelle pencils
6 x 8.5” + mat $175 USD

“Capula, Michoacan”

ink and aquarelle pencils
6 x 8.5” + frame $225 USD

“Plaza Civica 2018”

ink and colored pencils
6 x 8.5” + mat $175 USD

“July 12, 2023 El Jardin”

ink and aquarelle pencils
8.5 x 6” + mat $175 USD

“July 5, 2023 Cafe de La Parroquia”

ink and aquarelle pencils
8.5 x 6” + mat $175 USD

“Balloon vendor in El Jardin”

rainbow colored pencil
6 x 8.5” + mat $175 USD

“Zocalo CDMX”

ink and colored pencils
9 x 12” + frame $250 USD

“Day of the Dead - Patzcuaro”

ink and colored pencils
6 x 8.5” + mat $175 USD

“Cuña de Allende 9 Oct”

ink and colored pencils
6 x 8.5” + mat $175 USD

“Three Mariachis”

ink and aquarelle pencils
6 x 8.5” + frame $225 USD

“Instituto Allende Jan 25, 2023”

ink and aquarelle pencils
8.5 x 6” + frame $225 USD

“Jan 30, 2022 El Jardin”

ink and aquarelle pencils
8.5 x 6” + frame $225 USD

“SMA Cemetery Nov 2, 2018”

ink and aquarelle pencils
6 x 8.5” + frame $225 USD