Okay, so I have decided on the Bullfrog and have selected a portion of the picture to work on. My main reason was to cut down on the green and also to concentrate on the frog's beady eye.
I then loaded the resulting crop into Photoshop and played with a few colour swatches.
I think I prefer the first swatch although the gold stripe doesn't look so definite in the swatch as it does in the picture. The bull frog's eye is very dark. I will need a black or maybe a very dark brown yarn for that. I have ordered some 2/16 cottons from Handweaver's Studio in London and my next stage is to make some yarn wraps.
Normally the next stage in my design process would be to transfer my ideas to my sketchbook but as I am short of time for this project I have decided to choose yarns directly from the photograph. These cotton yarns are from Handweavers Studio .
There are many greens in the photograph. To make things easier I have limited my choice to four. I have selected a turquoise, cream, two golds,and a dark brown to represent the eye area and a blue, slate and plum colour to represent the water. 
