This is one of five big drawings, each about A1, that I’m doing on stage 1 and 2. Stage 3 is to try and get it right. If you’ve not tried drawing with chalk pastels then give it a go: very therapeutic, until it all goes wrong then you need a therapist to calm you down.

There are parts of drawings that one thinks that “this is ok as it is”, and there’s a temptation to stop there. Perhaps you should, or in this case, perhaps I should. The answer is to do several versions of the same picture, and why not? I will.

My aim is to get the right sort of feel for the picture that captures the time when I took the photo. Here’s hoping.