Travelling sketchbook - New York Skyline

In April, the sketchbook I received included some sweet, quirky Lowry figures and elegant studies of parallel lines, mostly in monochrome.

I was thinking about music on staves and then we went to New York for a week, and on our hotel roof looking at the skyline, I mentally turned the staves through 90 degrees....

So, having made little visual notes in my journal,

I started collecting bits and bobs from wherever we went: business cards from where we ate, art gallery floor plans, menus - any old ephemera really.

This resulted:

The musical background is an NY cliche, I know, but I love both the piece and the Woody Allen film, Manhattan. The 'water' is envelope interiors from post that came when we were away.