Nikola is from Yugoslavia. He studied art all over Europe, including France and Germany. He’s travelled the world making a living as a street artist. In today’s modern, fast-paced world, can someone still make enough to live on doing art on the street? As I dropped in some money into his hat, I noticed it was filled with $1 and $2 coins. Not bad… The last few years he’s spent his time in Canada. He’s in Toronto and Ottawa in the summers, and makes his way out West during the winter months. He’s made his temporary home base at the corner of Howe and Robson , underneath the covered entrance to the old Sears building ( the soon to be Nordstrom ) where he can draw on the sidewalk with no fear of the Vancouver rain to wash away his work prematurely. I asked him how long it takes him to finish one of his paintings (technically a chalk drawing). He told me 2, sometimes 3 days. And after that? He says nonchalantly in broken English: “I wash away with bucket of water”. And then? “I start new pa
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