Usually I work from background to foreground and from shadows to light, but in this case I needed the foremost figure to guide my handling of the elements of sky framing the figure. Also, from fairly early on I had the glow of the veiled sun to guide my color and values in that part of the sky. 6/9
By this time the sky is pretty well laid in and I’ve started to render the shadows of the landscape masses. As often happens, I decided I had incorrectly visualized the shadows and structure of some of the landscape shapes so I had to fix those as I painted them in. 7/9