Midnight water soluble pencil practice

In preparation for upcoming travel and wanting to go minimalist with art supplies which I can't quite seem to do, I'm thinking of water soluble pencils. Not quite sure yet but they would be easier and also a surprise because what the pencil looks like when it goes down is not always what it looks like when it's brushed with water. 

Anyway, I was not able to sleep and was and reading the weekly Minneapolis area crime report and came upon one that inspired this drawing in ws pencil. I drew one version 2"x2" and then went bigger. 

I was still working on it around 2am when the spouse came downstairs and was crabby about making so much noise (with my pencils????) and "why don't you read a book?" (watch out spouse, you might be next in a cartoon as a crabby bald guy) but I didn't say anything because how does one respond to noise from a pencil? This is also the guy who falls asleep with headphones on while watching shootouts and explosions and car chases on TV. 

ANYWAY, this is water soluble pencil with a tiny bit of collage at the bottom where I put the story verbatim from the crime report. 

I'm thinking of maybe making this a short 6 panel story, and this is probably panel 4, about how the guy got stuck in the mud and maybe from the dog's point of view. Probably will never happen but I put the idea here in case I forget. 

I still don't know what I'm bringing on the trip. I'm working on mixing and comparing because I think I have enough cool yellows and warm yellows etc and don't need to bring them all. Would be kind of cool to travel withi 6 pencils plus a black and a white. . . .