Never play with matches

I want to bring the images from Il Pizzini out and develop them further. I am beginning to use collage and photography to move my drawing forward. To date, collage and photography are not an end in themselves, I really want to resolve my ideas with drawing.
On a lovely fresh sheet of Archers A2 I drew a grid then an outline map of Venice, as a framework, literally to hang and contain ii pizzini. Pizzini superimposed in a random fashon, then I began some layering. I had bought several sheets of paper from Paperchase with a string grid within the paper. I burnt into the paper with matches to make piercings within the grid. Layered that over the pizzini, and then another sheePlenty to think about.

Next door garden

A quick drawing, less than five minutes, next door's garden.

January Garden

I went out to see what was what. I like the dead heads, but they'll have to go soon.

Sicily

Shards. Reds blacks and whites. Carefully collected, catalogued and arranged. The Archaeological Museum at Syracuse one of the best I have ever been to.

Sicily

A stone picked up in the Greek Theatre, Taormina.

Sicily

Ten days in Sicily in October. Not so much an island, more one big archaeological dig. Sites abound, as do museums displaying the finds. Here one small pouring jar.

From water

A walk alongside the Test river on Sunday influenced these three small drawings, also a need to explore marks and tone as themselves, unlinked to a place or a building. Playing with layers, floating, depth, lights and darks.