Following Edo's advice about using tonal sketches, I dug out a sketch of St Catherine's Hill that I did on location a few months ago. I had a go at painting it today, deciding on colours as I went along, partly from imagination, partly from memory.

The shadows in the foreground are a bit murky, but other than that I'm fairly pleased with it. I can recommend the exercise because, as always, the process is more important than the end result.