General Store - stage 1

It's now time to get back to some "The Big Sky" paintings again as I escape the Stygian gloom of "Vampires Of Venice". Actually this one is a bit of cross-pollination between the recent monochromes I have been painting and the American landscapes where I had the land in virtual monochrome set against a colour sky. "General Store" will have the landscape in shadow like previous ones but both the land and the sky will be painted in full colour using opaque paints. The location is in the Death Valley area of California and I like the idea of a General Store seemingly in the middle of nowhere... which it is.
This stage was painted with a small bristle brush and a rag using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet (Dioxazine) thinned with Liquin. I think I am going to base it around a Violet/Yellow complementary but I might change my mind over tomorrow morning's coffee when I assess it with fresh eyes