Nightwatch - stages 1 & 2

Stage 1

Following on from the last painting here is another in my series of smaller pictures of alien spaceships over Earth, "Nightwatch". I like the idea of these craft being rusty as though they have been in space for a long long time with this one quietly flying over a town at night. "Nightwatch" will be based around a blue/orange complementary with the brightest part of the picture being the lights below. I have very quickly painted in indications of lights and roads in stage 2 which I will use as a guide and won't be meticulously painting it all in as it appears here.
Stage 1 was "drawn" up with a small bristle brush in the morning session using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin.
Stage 2 was painted in the later afternoon session when the lines had pretty much dried in stage 1 and used the same paint mixture but applied first with a rag and then the landscape details picked out by erasing lines etc with a small bristle brush dipped in clean turpentine.

Stage 2