Cemetery ramblings

 I had a lovely walk in the Balmoral Cemetery for the work I am doing in Shelley Rhodes online course.  Drawing , photography , rubbings, collecting samples of leaves, pebbles and wind blown silk flowers were included in my morning of sampling. 

These small cards were prepared in advance with gesso and some collage. Then drawings made on top. The bright pinky orange flower is the flower head of a Mother of Millions. It is a toxic weed. Will kill livestock if it’s in their pasture and humans. But it was such a joyful scrap of colour amid the sombre colours of the tombs and headstones that are dull and blackened with time.

The rubbings were from headstones ART is from a man named Carter. I was very respectful when doing this . 

Micro scraps collected are colourful in a place that is grey black brown in its macro elements