Idalou - stage 2

Put down the colour underpainting using mixes of mostly transparent paint as this may help with the colours in the sky later on - the shapes of the design of the sky are quite simple so I need to make sure that they are subtly broken up otherwise the sense of scale is lost in relation to the landscape. I have just realised the the cloud suggests a distant nuclear explosion which ties in with an underlying subtext of The Cold War that runs through this series of Roadside America paintings.