I took this class as kind of an experiment - I wanted to play more with amethyst genuine - I enjoy the sparkle of painting with real jemstone paints and I wanted to see how they would mix with a few paints I had laying about. I also wanted to experiment a bit with masking fluid.
I’m painting in a garret in summer so I knew the soft, one layer approach probably won’t work as every layer dries in about 30 seconds, so I opted to build up the painting in a few layers, working from light to dark.

Overall…a rather intimidating wyrm, if not a delicate one, but one with some interesting gradations from the vibrant pinks to blues. Having said that, I think I prefer watercolours for more soft-bodied subjects, ones where I can build up those soft layers. 
I think I struggled with this particular subject as the desire for hard edges put me in the wrong frame of mind - I’ve begun to observe that I prefer watercolours' softer bodied shapes, loose backgrounds and lithe subjects, subjects whose coats have enough depth that they can eat up the layers that I always find myself putting down, as I am heavy-handed with the paint. I also really struggled to put down details - perhaps as this piece was too saturated with colour and texture, its didn’t want them. 
I might come back to this subject with a dip pen and ink instead, something that lets me communicate scales, hard lines and ivory claws.
As a complete side note, I recommend reading The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E.B. Hudspeth, which includes some anatomical plates of a dragon, among other things…pure, pure nightmare fuel. But great inspiration.