Dark Timber Painting Round 2

I scrapped everything except for the foreground trees and started over.  I think it's much better but I still have a lot to learn about painting!  This took me about two hours this morning.  I need to get faster, too!

If you're curious, here is a work-in-progress version that I saved:

I tried to block in bigger chunks of color first and work down into smaller details.  I think it helped quite a bit.  Then, once the pieces were in place, I could see where I needed to take color / brightness up or down.

Here's a black and white version...I tried to drop the painting into grayscale from time to time to make sure it was still reading.

Dark Timber Lineart (and painting attempts)

Continuing to develop my Dark Timber temple comps -- I got a line art drawing I liked but I really suck at painting.  Help!!

Dark Timber Comps

I wanted to try some comps of the Lich's temple in the haunted Dark Timber forest...Very hard!  I think some of my later ones (heading toward the lower right images) are better but I'm still not 100% satisfied.  Once I get something I like I'd like to do a background painting.

Inspiraiton: Palenque, Ankor Wat, La Huesteca