Latest drawing for newest painting

Now that my shows are done for the summer, time to get back to painting. Here's the latest drawing that I came up with for my landscape/shape paintings.

I really like the design of this image. I have some photos and some plein air paintings of trees that would match this situation. My initial thought is that the tree will contain some orange/yellow (fall colors) and have a darkish background. For the background, I think that I'm going to try some of the classic Master's colors of umbers, dark siennas. I think that it would make the yellows of the tree pop out.