A loose wet watercolor from the Top of the Rock observation deck at sunset, looking south over Midtown with the Empire State Building rising alone out of the haze. A young Korean couple stands at the golden-section point, about 38% across the frame and low in the composition, seen from behind at the glass rail — she leans into his side, his arm across her shoulders, both looking out over the city. They are soft wet silhouettes of five or six brushstrokes each, faceless, read entirely through the lean of their bodies. The Empire State Building is one warm sienna wash with granulation doing all the work and no drawn windows anywhere; the buildings around it are two flat lavender-grey ghost washes that lose their edges completely into the haze. The upper half of the sheet is given to sky, wet-on-wet apricot and rose blooming down into a pale gold band at the horizon, with soft clouds lifted out and cloud shapes left as untouched white paper. The deck floor in the lower corners stays bare paper. About fifteen wobbly lines in total, marking the rail and one antenna, several breaking off mid-stroke. Warm low sun against cool violet city shadow, transparent paint only, wide breathing space to the right of the couple. The painting bleeds off all four edges with no white border and no vignette. Vertical 3:4.
