Owl Owl Owl Turtle

Now that I am starting to understand colour I am really enjoying it! And the project is almost finished which is just typical! 

These images below I made using scans of mono prints and again putting them as a layer behind my line work in photoshop. My mono print was originally dark blue and yellow, but I played about with the colours in the hue and saturation drop down in photoshop. I think it's quite nice to come away from the traditional colours used for an owl. I saw the blue and purple and thought it worked well with the owls face blue, making the stare seem even colder, like stone. 

I added another mono print layer to the turtle in the image below. I don't really like this though, I don't think it's very balanced as a whole image. There defiantly needs to be more colour somewhere but I need to play about with where it should be.

The image below is my final and favourite. I did want their to be colour on the bottom part of the image, but instead of adding the mono print to the turtle I added it to the background and then faded it out to the top of the picture. I think this works, the balance of white in the image works better like this because it is at both the top and the bottom (the turtle)