“Bodegas play an important position within the New York Metropolis way of life and outline its panorama,” says illustrator Gabi Lamontagne of the nook shops that she’s been depicting since transferring there from Quebec in 2012. “I used to be drawn to their hand-painted awnings framed with vibrant lightbulbs… infrequently, you will see that a working cat inside a retailer.”
Lamontagne first pictures the bodegas after which makes use of concentrated watercolour ink for instance them. “I attempt to frivolously summary them with washes and colors, hoping to seize their idiosyncratic magnificence.”
