"Doyers Street", 14" x 20", watercolor and paint marker on paper, 2022.
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Doyers Street, one of my favorite places to draw (and eat dim sum at Nom Wah Tea Parlor) in NYC--especially now that the street is closed off to traffic and is pedestrian only and there's a mural painted directly in the street. Early last century though, the bend in the Doyers Street became known as the "Bloody Angle" because of numerous killings among the Tong Gangs of Chinatown.
I made this watercolor painting on-site on Doyers Street over the course of two days (three if you count photography). Thanks to everyone who said hi while I was there.
Day 1: I made my daily drawing (look back a few days) and then used my cargo bike as an easel for a watercolor block to sketch with a paint marker to make the line drawing late in the afternoon.
Day 2: Lunchtime and so much sunnier--I was staring right into the sun in the south. I set up at a table with watercolors to start on the lower half of the painting, and then switched to my bike as easel once the sun shifted.
Day 3: Late afternoon photography to get a more dispersed light. This continues a plein air/made-on-location series in NYC over the past year or so with stops in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Coney Island