Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing some small lichen drawings (or illustrations perhaps), 15cm x 15cm, all ink pen on paper, on pages in a sketchbook... adapted (and distorted) from some cropped and enlarged photographs... lichenscapes...
A style of drawing inspired in part by the histology illustrations in biology textbooks, which I find fascinating...
Here are some of my lichen photographs, taken on a crisp and clear morning a couple of weekends back, visiting three churchyards in the search for interesting lichens [a new species of lichen was apparently discovered at one of them]...
...I read online (although I've since lost the link to it) that churchyard lichens are sometimes as old as the gravestones on which they silently inhabit... could there ever be a more unintentionally beautiful way of signifying a life after death...?