In 2019 I arrived in Tokyo on a spring night in March at about 5 pm, just enough time to metro to my air bnb and go to sleep. On the second night, I checked out Shinjuku and wandered around taking photos of streets at night. I’ve gone back through my photos to make watercolors of these photos.

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I made a couple passes at this street with a big pink light, both in real life and in my drawings. I went down this street a couple times. The tall neon pink light says something with “ladies” at the end. So I can only partially guess what it was advertising, but it attracted me as a set of colors. A good excuse to use the hot pink color in the Sakura Koi CAC set.

It was fun to get down how tall and narrow everything felt, especially in the Traveler’s Notebook watercolor paper, which is tall and narrow.