I made $2 on the streets of New York Sketching in Crayon on Scrap Paper
Private: I made $2 on the streets of New York Sketching in Crayon on Scrap Paper
I was near the NYC Port Authority Bus Terminal with time to kill on the streets of New York. So I strolled down the street past the gaudy Madame Trousseau Museum and a two story McDonald’s carts with sausage grilling and smoking and other carts with giant pretzels with giant salt and giant prices. What a carnival. People where near the curb selling posters and pictures and books and post cards. There were a number of sketch artists who would have a person sit in front of them and they would produce a quick sketch for … I don’t know, $5 or was it $10? Some of the works I saw in charcoal on a 12″x14″ sketch pad looked very good. I could never produce that kind of portrait or caricature of a person in front of me. Everything I draw seems to be from my “Isometric Period.” Kind of like Picasso when he was cubist and abstract. But not as detailed. I think my sketches look like something from Jean Cocteau in the 1920’s.
As I strolled along the wide sidewalks in the greying evening sky I came upon a small group of four or five watching a woman sketching a young man sitting for his portrait. I had my clip board in my hand, and a thick crayon stub in the other. I looked over the woman’s shoulder as she sat on a portable chair in front of me. She made an interesting hovering movement over the paper with her charcoal stick before she put down a line.
A man standing next to me leaned toward me with his hands in his pockets. “What do you think?”
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