Street Art in New York
Posted on Dec 21, 2009 under Travel | No CommentKyle painted caricatures of people in festivals and for parties. This had been his job for seven years and he was actually very skilled and successful at it. He also painted city scapes in oil and that was his first true passion. However, shortly after school he wanted to travel and in particular he wanted to spend some time in New York and since he had done this once before when one of his aunt’s asked him to for a local school carnival he figured he might be able to pay his travel expenses, or at least make a little spending money with these caricatures.
One his first morning in the Big Apple, Kyle waked around Times Square and had a nice hot cup of coffee. New York, every artist’s dream, and Kyle loved the way it felt. There was an energy to it that he had never felt before, and he had been to many places, he just thought New York was unique. He laughed as he thought that and repeated the popular speech exercise unique New York unique New York to himself as he looked for a place to set up shop. He finally decided on a nice spot near the lobby of some of the New York luxury hotels.
That would be perfect he thought because surely all of the tourists that would be walking in and out of those doors would be interested in a nice sketch of themselves. In addition it would be easy for them to drop the sketch off in their hotel room so they wouldn’t have to carry it around the city with them. Kyle returned to his own economy room to get his supplied but by the time he got back to his spot there were way too many people crowding the sidewalk to even think about trying to set up shop. Instead Kyle went to Central Park and then headed over to explore the Empire State Building. In fact, Kyle never actually got to sketch any people on that trip, though it was certainly one of the best experiences of his life and he would move there two years later.
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