The Swill Progresses

"Start from the back and work forward," a wise man once told me, and that's how I tend to work. So here's the sky...

I was originally intending to make the central figure dark and warm, with strong earth tones. However, once I started messing around with the sky, I'm thinking that faded, dusty purples that have less color intensity than this blue would give a nice sense of sweep and distance. Time to experiment...