My colour references was mostly by the artist Leonid Afremov. All of his paintings were colour but always had an emphasis on warm colours. I did look at pinterest too to see if there were any other warm colour schemes that could evoke more apparent moods.
As for my composition I had drawn a lot of ideas from pinterest and hence had not much of an artist to follow. But here are some of the images that inspired my works.
Honestly I had no particular style in mind and wanted to mix styles to see what monostristy could come out but yet still convey what I wanted. I would see something that was interesting and which I thought I could achieve and did it.