And actually wrote something that might turn out to be worthwhile!!! I had been about to give up because I’d doodled some stuff I’d quite liked and then discovered that Finale had frozen again (why? why??) but decided not to abandon ship and instead pulled out my manuscript and doodled some more and then wrote stuff down. First time in… oh ages and ages. Months, in fact. Yay!

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In the end, after messing about with watercolour over the failed stencil, I decided to have a bash at drawing Stonehenge over the top of it all. I confess that I did use the underlying stencil to guide me with heights and things in the places where it had worked best, but there’s a lot more detail in the drawing, and a few of the stones on the right had essentially been completely wiped out due to the paper coming apart when I removed the stencil. I think it’s a measure of how my confidence in my drawing has grown that I didn’t even think of drawing in pencil – I went straight in there with the pen. Woohoo!

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I decided to see how watercolour would go over the top of the messed-up Stonehenge stencil and the answer is "surprisingly well". I really didn’t expect the watercolour to do anything but pool nastily over the acrylic paint, but it came out with some very interesting effects. I’m thinking I may attempt a drawing from one of the Stonehenge photos over the top of it all now.

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