Santa Ana River From the Bridge

Once I had established the drawing of the painting I then focused on the hills before the light changed beyond what initially interested me.

I continued to work the colors and values in the hills because I wanted to capture their feeling.  Everything else in the painting would be compared to those hills so I wanted to get them close to what I wanted.

I then worked on the foliage and finally the river.  I kept comparing the colors and the values until I thought I had gotten it right.