I was starting to work up an image as underpainting for a new work. It is abandoned so I have painted over it. So this is the last puff of smoke in the wind remaining of it.
I was starting to work up an image as underpainting for a new work. It is abandoned so I have painted over it. So this is the last puff of smoke in the wind remaining of it.

I started with two drawings and wove them together into a single one similar to a plimpsest, which is wriing running in different directions on the same paper.
The process was to slice and weave:
and complete:
I often sketch at concerts and had a pencil in hand at some recent concerts. The images are a little shadowed, sorry, but that is the hazard of digital snaps: