A brass compass

I picked this image out of Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest book to have a go at coloring metal, highly-reflective metal.

I worked with a deep brown (Espresso), moss green and a lemon yellow to capture the highlights and dark reflections. I turned to the Internet's stock photos of brass compasses for reference photos to see the play of light and dark.

For the ring of plants and animals surrounding the compass, I continued my exercise in limiting the color palette, this time to greys - cool greys, warm greys, French greys, sage green, slate grey and some browns. The only pops of color come from the blackberries (at left) and red fox (at 1 o'clock).

Not a sterling result, I think. More practice needed for metal.