Darks

Here are some color studies....

A few more...

I was seeing what the two studies would look like painted. The left ones I just put the paint on there and the right ones I wetted the paper first to see what effects it would have an how it would look.

I used rubber cement on the all the parts that are white and then painted the sky...

And here is the final piece with all the darks painted in. I actually painted the main branches and blew the smaller ones and the grass as well.