Inventing the sky

There were more "assignments" our teacher, Richard McKinley, gave us at a workshop a few years ago.  One was to paint the same painting with different lighting and atmosphere.  So, I did that here.  I looked at my field study from the other day of the desert buttes and invented a southwestern sunset sky.  This was fun.  I got to use colors from my pallette that are different from what I'm used to.