Pantone Colour Exercise

The purpose of this excercise was to create a colour palette using the Australian landscape as inspiration. We were to create the palette first as a process colour (CMYK) then convert that to a Pantone colour using a Pantone swatch book as reference.
The real aim of this was to show the difference between what we see on screen and what it would really look like printed out. The difference was actually very pronounced and showed us what a valuable (and expensive) tool the Pantone swatch book is. By comparing the swatch book to the same Pantone swatch on screen it's easy to see how large the difference can be and that it would often be neccessary to choose a different swatch from the book to ensure that colours printed accurately.
Unfortunately I can't afford a Pantone swatch book right now so this exercise for me was really more about seeing the differences between a process colour swatch and that same colour when it is converted to the nearest available Pantone colour.