What colors did you use for your limited palette (take a photo of your color practice as well).  Reflect on what color mixtures worked well and what was challenging. Explain how you balanced areas of opacity and transparency in your composition and what effect those areas had on the overall design of the artwork (the effect may be different than what you intended, which is fine.  Your ability to explain look at your finished work and explain the effect is important).
My color palette consists mainly of green, blue, and red. However, there are areas of yellow-red and orange-red as well as blue-purple. This is to help give the creatures more depth and makes them stand out against the green and light red background. There are some areas that I am not pleased with, such as the background which makes the semi-realistic raccoons stand out more than the creatures. The background also lacks depth and if given more time I would possible add some shadows or darker strokes. To balance areas of solid colors and transparent colors I made the trees a deep solid and added slightly transparent strokes of color over them and then made the background transparent so that the trees stood. The transparent strokes on the trees complement the transparent background. Ideally I would have liked to add darker transparent lines in the background to give the illusion of more trees and if I return to this piece in the future I probably will.