Bosques de Palermo
Watercolour
and crayon
2017 Charlene
Brown
My first
thought was to paint a Steetview of 9 Julio Avenue (July 9 is Argentina’s
Independence Day), a boulevard said to be the widest city street in the world. It
has seven lanes in each direction and is flanked on either side by parallel
streets of two lanes each. Rapid transit lines, inaugurated since I saw 9 Julio
Ave in 2002, runs for three kilometres down the centre of this spectacular
street.
But then I recalled that ‘too much pavement’ is often a problem when
you’re looking for a paintable Streetview, because the Google camera is usually
mounted on a vehicle driving on the pavement, and it occurred to me 20-some
lanes of it would be hard to work around.
I decided to concentrate my search on the pathways of the many parks
in Buenos Aires. Here is a link to the Bosques de Palermo, one of many very paintable locations I
found.
