I always take watercolours, pencils and brushes when travelling. They usually come home unused. Unless I have several hours when I can sit down and process what i have seen, I find it difficult to make art on the spot.
So photographs and materials are what i end up bringing home. Luckily in Venice the light is inspirational. Rentals or hotels always have glassware and other decor items to play with. Maps and brochures could be the basis of future collages. And I did manage to collect some more brick dust fallen from walls onto the Zattere waterfront footpath. Destined to be washed into the sea, a little bit is now ready to grind into paint. ( disinfected, soaked in boiling water and mixed with gum arabic then dried in the back of the hire car).
1 homage to the Golden Fortuny lamp ( biscuit tin, San Marco)
2 curtain, Corte de la vida
3 trifora sunlight
4,5,6 kitchen glassware, venice light
7 brick dust, Zattere
9 reflections near Campo Santo Stefano
