Two Trees - a pastel painting

Finished!  This watercolor underpainting technique is really thought-provoking.  What I mean is, you don't have as much control of the watercolor as you do when doing the dark notan (map of darks) technique.  With watercolor, I stared and stared and made adjustments based on the watercolor underpainting - which is more abstract in a way.  For instance, I made rocks where there were none because the watercolor looked like rocks.  This painting took me longer because of this.  I can't imagine doing this technique in a few hours on location!  Right now it is taking me 3 days to complete a painting in the studio!!!  Must practise more and more before mid-Sept!!!!