Experimenting with Colour

I was really excited that we had the opportunity to use colour. I did this image using oil pastel. I used this media as I can really capture the vibrancy of the colours and blend together the pastels to create different shades quite easily.
I'm really pleased with how this turned out. Oil Pastels can be quite messy but I feel I managed to keep this quite neat and tidy. It's easiest to apply the lightest colours first as its easy to go over light pastels with darker ones but not so easy to go over dark pastels with light colours.
Most of the colours required 2 or 3 different pastels so I had to play around with a few before applying them to the image itself to ensure the right colouring was achieved.

In the image on the left I used colouring pencils. I feel like I could keep the colours very crisp using pencils as they aren't very messy. In only a couple of areas I had to use a couple of different pencil shades to create the shades on this sketch.
I used water colour for the image on the right. I think I should have used a couple of layers of paint on the blue as it's not as bright or piercing as I would have hoped it would have been. However the yellow and red in the centre are very clear which I'm pleased with as it's very vibrant.

I really liked the shades of pink I created in the oil pastel drawing. I took an image that doesn't have much colour in and applied the different shades of pink into the image to see how the shades work with something that isn't usually colourful.
I really like how this turned out. The pinks work really well. However, I would like to have seen how this looked using only the shades of pink and no purple or orange. I don't think the colours compliment each other well in this format and also the beak is orange anyway in the real picture so I would have preferred it
if I changed it all completely.