Toward the Mountains (Modified Photo for Painting Reference)

My previous post was the original version of this photo, taken in June of 2018 as we drove through the Colorado mountains.  I recently chose that photo to use as a painting reference for my next painting.  But in the original photo, the highway runs right through the foreground.  I decided that in this case, I didn't want to include the road, so I opened the jpg in Painter and used digital pastel and "cut-and-paste" to change the foreground, to produce the basic composition that I wanted for my painting.