Color really adds life to this piece. The pastel colors on the hydra-thingee are surprising, but I like them for all their variety. They definitely help to bring out the incredible details. I also just love the intricate little designs on all of the vine critters. Very, very cool. And yes, I did see the face. That's marvelously subtle.
OMG! You finished it! IT'S EPICALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely adore the colors and the very minuit details in the celtic knots and the details in the texture of the hyde of the hydra!