Pastel practice

Homework for tonight's pastel class was to choose two objects with different textures and draw them. I chose a metal spoon and a leafy coleus. The hardest part for me was the color blending of the coleus. In real life there is more green on the edge and the red is a deep, dark magenta but I couldn't depict that accurately and the scanner made it even worse! But, I say, that's why I'm in class -- to learn how to do these things.