I spent some time today looking at Jon Klasson's work trying to figure out what he does with layers, colors and textures. I had this simple sketch in one of my books, and added some color to it using some notions inspired by Klasson. I don't want to learn, or copy, his style, but I want to push my coloring, and I thought his work might lead me in some new directions. Just a note, I did not have any of his work in front of me while doing this, I just went by what I remembered.
And here's the unedited sketch from my book.