There are four sequences here.
The whole background was painted over to represent an early autumn scene. A limited palette of purple, yellow, red, green and white was used throughout. For the sky, blue, white and purple was used. Generally, lighter colours were used in the background and darker colours were used in the foreground. I use Jo Sonja acrylic paints for this piece. What I did after the painting had dried was to wash the sky and background with a diluted mix of thinned paints with white added to the mix.
The upper outline for the Great Wall was trimmed back to delineate it against the background. To add further "depth", the apparent height of the Great Wall was raised by painting in the cleared brown slopes, and creating shadows behind the wall. Vegetation and dark forestry helped to break up the monotony of the landscape. I like the overall look to this painting so far.
The foliage cutouts were placed and glued into the scene. I decided that placing a cutout behind the Great Wall looked great.
In fact, I decided to add more foliage cutouts to the scene, "layering" the work and partially hiding the Great Wall. I painted over the fore ground in a dark green.
I added a covering of model railway grass to the foreground.
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