color study

My drawing is of the west point campus in the early morning. The material I used was oil pastels and I blended them in order to get all the colors into one square. I started with the sky and then went down through each row. I chose this picture to do the color study on because it had many colors and many shades within those colors so I thought I would get a nice range of value from that. I originally had the sky too light so I went over it in a darker blue and made the fade last longer than I had before. I took this picture in new reunion at west point when we visited for my mother's graduation reunion. I wish i blended the sections between the the sky and the grass better.