My usual approach is to have several colors out on the palette, a range of earth tones and some sky tones,. I have light and dark versions of each one. I put down either a shadow grey type of base color, or a 'seafoam' grey as a base color. Establishing where your horizon line is going to be is crucial, of course. That will be a dark brown line, with lighter more reflected earth colors as you work your way down to the ground.
On the top side of the horizon line, you have you lightest (and usually warmest) sky color. Then you gradually work your way darker to that sky blue. Also, if you have a marble floor or something like that, It could be your 'earth' tone instead. That is really fun! On large miniatures, I sometimes try to paint in a landscape inside that horizon line.
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