After I colored in the sky, I wanted to get the base color of the landscape filled in.

For the rock, I mostly concentrated in the main colors and blended using my fingers without too much attention to detail. The main focus is the arch, so I spent a little more time in the beginning defining the colors around this area.

Then I did the same thing with the foreground. The vegetation is actually very similar to South Africa in that it’s mainly brush and shrubs with very few trees and grassy areas. I wanted to show that there were many green areas broken up by the brownish soil and rock.