Painter Magazine has a competition

Today at lunch I decided to try something new. I'm going to enter the Painter Magazine competition. The short of it is that they provide 9 images. You have to make a painting that includes at least part of one of the 9 images. I'm going to try and paint at least 9 paintings for entry. Here's my first step. Right now it looks really rough and crappy, but I'll be posting additional images of this painting as it gets closer to completion. Don't judge me until I say it's done. :P