Neutral means more than beige

Well I know now that the length my thinking when I decided to try more neutral palette was about one inch . I was thinking NEUTRAL EQUALS BEIGE.  Now others are showing their attempts at neutrals and I am slapping myself when I see such beautiful COLOURS that are muted and almost neutralized. Lisa Call
 for instance just blew me away in their beauty.

Nevertheless I will show you in the spirit of what NOT to do.  When I was in art school, a prof once told me "Your first idea is your worst idea"  I was irritated at the time but his adage has proved very true. I just forget every now and then and get lazy about developing an idea.  These two are only okay.  A sort of what's not to like image but not very exciting.