UPDATE: Abstract Turned impressionistic Landscape

 This is pretty much the finished painting I started last week.  I added a few more reds, and removed some of the distracting darks in the top left corner in an effort to balance it out.  It might not ever feel quite finished because I really had no reference other than colors and shapes in my mind.  The second photo is some detail to show how I was letting some of the colors pool to form shapes, hopefully giving it a more loose feel.

   Posting Photos can be tricky.  I tried to add captions to each of these first 3 photos, but they showed up as one, so hopefully this isn't too confusing. The top 2 photos are my final update to the original post.  
The third photo from the top is of the first washes.  I planned on doing a loose abstratct watercolor, but my sketch had me worried that it was going t o be unbalanced
and bland, so I changed it to a landscape.

Forming an idea. I didn't yet know where I was going to go with this . Whether I was going for a snow scene or water scene or put a road in. (Maybe if I grew a large Afro I would know where to put some "happy little trees")... Everything was very loose.  I began to worry about the composition but sallied forth without much hesitation anyway.

After laying in some light red and yellow ochre, the painting began to show a little more depth. I am now at the stage where some finishing touches will be made where necessary. Some things are not making sense, but I am happy with the overall composition.  With this one exception.  This looks like 2 paintings so I have been trying to tie the right side in with the left.

I got up early this morning and decided to paint the abstract painting that was floating around in my head. When I sat down to sketch it I started to worry because  I didnt have a solid idea in place and could feel myself getting impatient. I wanted to get a painting done today, not spend all morning working on the composition. I knew the color scheme I wanted.  Earth tones with cool blues and some reds....
I started by making a quick sketch of some trees in the foreground and a stand of trees on the left.  I had no idea what the right background would look like, but I wanted to get to painting so I took a chance and threw some paint on.
At this point I was playing with fire, but I didn't care. I had blues scattered all over the place with a few trees blocked in and went to work.  As a result of my impatience, and lack of a reference photo, I spent a lot of time laying colors in, taking them out and putting others in. I was so impatient to get going, I didn't bother to use the 3 Ply Plate Bristol.  This would have allowed some nice "happy accidents" and the paper would have been more forgiving.  The cold pressed Canson 140lb I used actually does alright until you push too many washes too soon onto it. You can't blot it with a paper towel too much or the paper fiber starts to wear, leaving that overworked texture to it.