In a wonderful moment of synchronicity the prompt on
Joggles Art Journal Adventures this week was to
use the letter N and to include an animal. You should have seen me sitting behind my desk and almost shouting YES at the computer screen.
As it happens, it's exactly two years ago since the trip to New York and the most iconic image I have taken away from it is this view, taken from our tour bus, of the woman with her small dog standing on a street corner in Peter Cooper Village on the east side of Manhattan. I still find it hard to put my finger on why she made such an impression on me but she did (you will have seen her before on this blog if you are a regular reader), and consciously or not my little Flora bears a striking resemblance to her (at the time we still had our previous dog). It was one of those pivotal moments in life that remain in your memory forever.
You can also see her in
this video of the trip.
So I knew it had to be New York in my A5 journal this week and the background was done using the
TCW729 City Buildings stencil from The Crafters Workshop. In the foreground I used the NY skyline mask from
The Ink Pad shop, located in New York itself. That was pretty much it, apart from the addition of some luminescent pink and the photo of the little dog and her owner printed from my own photograph by
Social Print Studio, as well as a New York themed washi tape.
If this was a book (and it isn't!) perhaps I should go looking for her but I would rather she retained her air of mystique, and I will remain wondering about her, her life, and her little dog.
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