Making The Visit - Backgrounds

This picture is just something to show for today. It's a rough try at the little town for the beginning of the movie. I made a painting of the hills and sky in the background. Then I pulled that into Flash and made layers on top of it where I drew a little town and some trees in the foreground. This is sort of what I want but not quite. I am beginning to really try things with combining the paintings and the more cartoonish drawings done in Flash. I'm not sure that this works. It may require making the foreground trees look painted like the background hills.