Toscana - stage 1

Carrying on where I left off with "Ronda" I have incorporated the trees at left in "Ronda" into a Tuscan landscape with a livelier more expressive landscape. I want a lot more movement in this one as the last one was too still so I hope to paint a more expressive stormy sky. I am trying to avoid horizontals and verticals apart from the cypress trees which will act as a counterpoint to the flowing diagonals. Probably going to keep it fairly monochromatic although we will see what I decide tomorrow morning when I resume work on it. Still trying to follow my mantra of "Lose Edges, Join Shapes!" 
This stage was barely "drawn" up at all, just some very basic lines for placement with a small bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and then everything else put in using the same paint mix with a rag. The tonal underpainting stage is a good time to adjust the composition as I did here because you can see how the tonal masses will work against each other and problems can be worked out here and not later on in the painting.