Miami Margin Notes
Electric blue sky. A lemon-drop sun. Palm trees scratched in like they were drawn during a phone call you didn’t want to be on.
This one feels like Miami in January when the rest of the country is shivering and you’re out here getting visually sunscreened. Sailboats slide across the bay. The skyline sits back there like a quiet flex (sorry… a quiet brag, I’m here in Miami). And the whole scene is stitched together with messy handwriting and scuffed lines, like the city’s keeping receipts.
It nods to Basquiat’s love of raw marks and scribbles, but filtered through a modern urban sketchbook vibe—part travel postcard, part studio outburst, part “I saw it and had to capture it.”
Mini art lesson: let your marks show. Those scratches, notes, and “unfinished” edges aren’t mistakes, they’re energy. When you leave process visible, the viewer feels the speed, the confidence, the moment. Clean isn’t always better. Lively is better.
Fun fact: artists have been writing on drawings for centuries. Leonardo filled his studies with notes, arrows, little reminders. In modern art, those scribbles became part of the composition—your eye treats text like texture, another rhythm on the page. Also: Miami has more than 800 parks and the city’s basically built around water, so if your brain keeps reading this like a map… it’s not wrong.
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