I made a journal for NYC, much of which is more a scrapbook than sketches, but here's a few of my faves. I was quite pleased about the paper, which really was very nice to work on. So yay to f2tE for recognizing its quality.

One of the things to do while in NYC is to take the Staten Island Ferry and see the Statue of Liberty, which we did. You have to wait, though, and take the next ferry back. We were so hungry we had lunch on the island, and once again the awesome f2s found ASHA's Sri Lankan restaurant^[1] —a delicious & delightful hole in the wall. The waiting area for the ferry on Staten Island has a fish tank, and I sketched this fish, mostly from memory. F2tE recalled its exact species from memory, and also that it needed that fin on the underside near the tail, which my memory had elided.

There are of course a number of these.

One downside of the stab binding, though it's pretty and very easy to do is that the book does not lie flat when open. At all. (Because of all the stuff I pasted in, it doesn't especially lie flat closed, either, but that's a different issue.:)

I gave Fran some fancy red fountain pen ink that has a bit of a gold cast to it when it dries. Because it smears, I've been enjoying it more than she has—definitely one of those gifts I bought because I really wanted it, sigh...Fran is also fond of gold, hence the co-ordinating callig marker.

Probably my favourite sketch so far, so here seems to be a good place to end.

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