Visitors - stage 1

Hot on the heels of "Hub Prime" comes another S/F painting, "Visitors". It's actually an adaption of one of my early ideas for the IX Commission which I didn't use, originally it was a figure high up a tree on a mountainside looking towards the rising sun with this big sky seen between two layers of cloud. I still fancied painting the skyscape and suddenly realised I could put an alien spaceship crashing out of a cloud above Earth within these layers of cloud, whether they mean ill or well is up to debate!
For this stage I very roughly sketched in the coastline and spaceship with a small bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and then everything else was put in with a rag using the same paint mix wiping highlights out with another clean rag and a bit of turpentine.
Oil on linen 30" x 20".