I was at my daughter's place in Wales last week. We weeded a huge garden part of which I did a drawing of here. This was at a halfway point in the weed clearing operation. The image is from the current sketchbook. It is about A5 size.
The garden sweeps up a steep slope and is terraced with drystone walling and in this case, overgrown with bracken and brambles thus making up a chaotic mixture.
Well it did.... but now the weedings done.....

In my other Blog, the posting "Beachcomber" features a day doing just that and associated artistic activity. This drawing was done not on Morecambe Bay but in the eastern Med last year. I was sitting on the beach doing the usual sea studies when I noticed this footprint (not mine) beside a stone also the track of the mountain bike I had borrowed.
Apart from its qualities as a drawing, the image is quite evocative. Memories.

Stony Shoreline. "Sea Pictures" is an exhibition of paintings. This image supports the show in that it is one of many drwings done in preparation.
Observation -> drawing -> idea -> more observation -> more drawing -> painting. Seems a logical process. But it never quite works that way. Often the painting is a retrospective look at the drawing. The drawing shows what I saw. The painting shows what the drawing said.