Almost time for our yearly trip to the tropics!  The painting below is a watercolor travel sketch I did last fall while on vacation in Mazatlan, Mexico.  I usually take a 9 x 12 sketchbook along, and paint or draw whatever strikes me.  In this case, it was a tropical thunderhead, located a few miles off the coastline.  Something I saw on one of our regular morning walks around Mazatlan.  No architecture in sight on this one–What are vacations for–other than this?

Watercolor Illustration from Travel to Tropical Mexico