Daily Sketch - Raining

Woke up this morning to a vague drizzle, and attempted to capture this:

Midway through the painting, it started raining harder, making further progress impossible, but also leaving an interesting pattern of splotches all over the sketchbook.

I went back in with the watercolor pencils to try to add some darker values that had gotten wiped out by the rain.

I can't decide if it looks better this way, or if there might be something fundamentally different that I need to work on with my process.  With oil paints, you can block in large areas of value, but if you try to do that in watercolor you obliterate your ability to add highlights.  I know some painters use gouache and go back in to add them on top of dark areas, but I think that might be a fundamental impossibility with the water-brush approach.  Maybe I should have just brought some regular brushes?