We held this portrait drawing class on Grand Street at Chrystie. The above photo shows a shoe repair station which interested us. Also in the immediate vicinity was a knife sharpener and a small table with a checkerboard with Chinese characters. I don't know what it was for.So I drew the scene. At one point a guy named Ellis came up to me while I was drawing the bicycle and asked me if I could draw a real bicycle that he could build. I asked him what kind of bicycle he wanted or if he currently owned a bicycle which he didn't. He wanted to know if I could produce working drawings of a bike which he could build from and he wanted to know how much it would cost. Then he gave me his phone number. This kind of thing happens all the time when I'm drawing in the street.
This is the picture after an hour and 45 minutes of drawing.
Quite a few people watched me draw and Peter, pictured above, drew them in his sketchbook. I was the bait to attract the onlookers and Peter sat in a position from which he could draw them. He appears to the left in my charcoal drawing.
