Painting sun struck trees before a red rock canyon wall was a fun challenge...if at first I don't succeed, get out the 4" house painting brush, brush off all the pastel and try, try again!
watercolor under painting on 12 x 16 UART 400
Begin adding the dark value pastels
blocking in the main shapes....not too happy with this.
Brush off the pastel and start again.
I moved and enlarged some of the foreground shapes and blocked in more subtle colors and values in the rock wall
Much better! But I will live with it for a couple of days to see what else needs work.