A year ago, Husb and I took a short break in North Wales, near Eryri (Snowdon). It poured down! But I did some expressionistic drawings with soft pastels into my Daler Rowney black paper sketchbook, you can see one in the background (above). Click here to see a short film about it. I worked very roughly and very quickly with the pastels and now I want to try out a similar approach with paint onto black canvas. I’ve never applied paint with a sponge roller before, it’s taking some getting used to. I’m using Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paints, a grey made with Titanium White and Mars Black, onto a stretched canvas.