Obscured By Cloud - stages 1 & 2

Stage 1

In line with my plan to take some smaller pieces to IX this year, this is the first of them. I like the idea of continuing this theme of clouds and spaceships so this carries on from "Visitors"with the idea of aliens visiting Earth (which they may well have been doing for many years already!). At the moment the spaceship looks like a flying SLR camera but I'll fix that later! This one is going to be in a limited palette of subdued blues hence the warm underpainting. I will be away for a few days from tomorrow so there won't be much progress on this for a little while...
Stage 1 was "drawn" up with a small bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin.
Stage 2 was put in with a rag using the same paint mix but with more Liquin.

Stage 2