30 January

One of several round windows in the wall of the church at Vounaria.

29 January

I made this quick sketch while waiting for friends to arrive to join me for dinner at a local taverna.  Time permitted neither starting the drawing in pencil not too much detail.  This drawing is my first attempt to draw people close enough to me to know that they are the subject of my attentions; these men did not seem to be concerned about my sketching them.

28 January

I do not know from where I photocopied this image of an ivied piece of statuary but it was a good subject to try to copy and worthy of my slight departure from my self imposed discipline of using only black ink in this sketchbook.

27 January

This morning there was an unusually large variety of cloud formations over the Messinian Gulf and the Taygetos Mountains.  To attempt to portray the scene using line only was beyond my current level of skill but I enjoyed the exercise.

26 January

Each year my sister sends to me from her home in Scotland a Haggis with which to celebrate ‘Burn’s Night’,  25 January. 

24 January

I made this drawing of my number three granddaughter, Jessica, to use on the card I sent to her for her sixteenth birthday on the 1 February.

23 January

Many years ago a visitor built this bench seat under the shade of the carob tree below the house, the tree has now in part grown around the plank of the bench seat.

I began this drawing too late in the afternoon, the light was rapidly failing stealing form and shadow from my subject.  I abandoned the drawing and returned some days later to the same spot to finish.  It was not a success so I chose to leave the drawing unfinished.