La Sal - stage 1

Following on from the last picture this is going to be another contre jour of a nearby location called La Sal Viewpoint in the Arches National Park. I want to do a vaster landscape with less emphasis on an iconic butte so that it is more about the landscape and sky. This will be another dusk painting but set at a slightly later time than "Tower of Babel" and will be centred around a blue/green - red/orange complementary... at least that's the plan. I am going to paint the sky in a different way this time with darker clouds scumbled over a yellow/green sky with some long thin clouds near the horizon with a strip of pink/orange showing through in places. I normally rough the clouds in at the tonal underpainting stage... but not this time as I want to see if I can get them to look a bit more insubstantial and looking like they are floating in the sky better than previous efforts.
This is the first tonal underpainting stage "drawn"up with a small bristle brush and then some tone applied with a rag later on using the same paint mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin.