By this time, we were all used to emerging from the meat locker-coldness of our hotels into the oppressive soup that was the outside air. My morning session was the Challenge Through Limitations workshop at the ruins of the Hospital San Nicolas de Bari, where we were asked to draw with various constraints -- colored paper, only black and white, fat crayons, carpenter's pencils, and so forth. The first exercise was to "mess up" the pristine whiteness of the paper, using dirt, paint, and/or anything else at hand. We "ruined" two pieces of paper and then handed them to our partners, who had to sketch on top of whatever we'd done.

I chose to sketch on top of the scuffed paper with a black marker:





Next, I attempted a green-on-green sketch, with blunt Neocolor I crayons on a piece of colored cardstock:



Then I chose a carpenter's pencil and a white gel pen to create this sketch, in the Strathmore Toned Gray hardbound journal:



All this while attempting (unsuccessfully) to avoid getting tagged by pigeon droppings!