I finished this yesterday, I'm hoping the way I'm seeing this while posting doesn't show up with such strong colors when it's posted; in person, it is very high key and soft. I'm liking this better than any I've done since restarting my painting journey again. Hope for more successes in the future. It is a half sheet painting. That upper left brown in the sky is the shadow of my hand, it's not in the painting.

Worked on this a bit this morning. While viewing this across the room I noticed that I had inadvertently made the desert trail looked like a manicured driveway, so that was the first thing I changed. I added all the foliage and started to define a few of the Palo Verde trees. Lots more to do with those. I added shading to the mountains. I will let this marinate over the weekend and start in again Monday.

I'm just getting the bones of this painting established and moving on to more detail.

I'm thinking I will continue in this soft color palette and see what I think as it progresses. I usually go  for more pops of color, but I'm not hating this slightly analogous look, either, The background mountains have just been outlined, they'll probably end up with bluish grays, who knows?