Building depth in the landscape

Now that our watercolor is dry, I'm going to work with pastels and colored pencils over that surface. And I've chosen pastels that are basically the same colors that we've used in wet media. The only difference is it's a, it's a dried stick of pigment. And it'll be easier to move across this surface with something as large as this. So I'll start with a brown that's very much like the brown that we used before which is, burnt umber. And I'll just blend it into the surface of this ground. And I'm referring back to my, original photograph to make sure that I've got the value a little bit closer. It seems like this is just a little too light, so if I find that this warm tone isn't quite dark enough, I can also find another color that's darker, in that case, it's a darker brown. And I can also use my finger, and just rub the color on the surface and deepen it up that way. So this is really both about value and it's also about trying to capture the color that I see. So, in looking at this…