February Speedpaint Challenge-1

Wanted to practice drawing some backgrounds again so I joined the February Landscape speedpaint challenge!
Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]

Lets just throw this out there. I've never drawn ANY serious rendering without the color picker :U

I was flipping out so much that I ruined some proportions and finished in half the time I should have X,D

I finished most of the whole thing is one hour, although adding the details brought me to 2 hours~

Yay for serious art instead of doodles!
ugh I had no cool brushes to get the spines right.. but I like that sexy weed plant

Program: Adobe Photoshop Cs4 (I want cs5!)
Time: 2 hours exactly
Reference used> [link]