The Methods of Renoir: Adjacent Strokes with a Flick of the Wrist

My next endeavor in concert with Jonathan Stephenson's Paint with the Impressionists (1995) instructional Number 4: Trees on a Ridge (after Renoir). According to the book, Renoir's approach includes:

• Start with a primed, pinkish-grey canvas
• Use a rapid, brush outline drawing 
• Record the position and essential shapes of key features
• Follow with color to further define the subject
• Use brief, springy brushstrokes maintaining a wet medium
• Brushstrokes are adjacent to one another with a slight curve
• Develop a sense of light and shade
• Coordinate shape and direction of brushstrokes for appropriate effect

Here's my effort after executing the approach with a nod towards Renoir:

In the Glade Copyright James E. Martin 2011

I found this Artifact more difficult to resolve to an endpoint. I can see the potential for working this approach with changes in palette emphasis and with even more flow and sweep in the overall feel with an evolution towards a greater delicacy.