 This painting is a series of the same steps over and over again, wetting the paper, mixing the pigment to various thicknesses, starting with something very light, and turning all those blobs in my first wash into trees once the paper is dry. Just using a small brush to fuss around with the edges. Then when all of that is finished, I can put some water over the paper again, drop in some thicker trees for my mid-ground level and start refining those edges. Once that's dry, add more water and then I can add my big trees in the foreground and just build up that value little by little. If you find that you want to put a tree in the mid-ground that you didn't get in there in the first place, add it using some thinner pigment in between your darker trees and then you have a full forest.