Mushrooms

In the Anna Mason School, we can pick and choose the tutorials we would like to do or, there is a prescribed order to learn in, from beginner to advanced.  I decided that to get the most out of the school, I would go in the recommended order.  The second tutorial was the mushrooms, below:

There were many colorful tutorials I would rather have completed, but I learned about texture and blending and spotting subtle color changes, things I might have missed if I had not taken this tutorial.