Enjoying the fruits of my watercolor labors

 


There are things I like about this fruity little piece, and there are things that make me cringey. 
I will start with the cringe factor: 
  • The peach was way smaller than that, and the bananas were larger. Does this say something psychological about me? I don't know. 
  • I could have done a better job with the shadow. There was surely more of it than that on the table. 
  • The bowl did not actually have a blue rim, but I am just not that good at depicting the white edge of something. I need more practice. 
  • Instead of a bowl on a table, this may look like fruit in a little white bathtub, floating on a teal sea. If that is what you think, I am sorry. I apologize. There is a reason for this. The table was a boring pale brown and I am a color addict. So I changed the color of the table. And this bowl was in the middle of the table, not near the edge. I gave it a horizon. Hence, the appearance of the sea. So sue me. I love the colors. 
Now, what I like:
  • I am delighted with the spots on the bananas, and I think I captured the curve of them pretty well. The one in front had a little twist to it. 
  • I like the shadows in the bowl.
  • I am happy with the colors in the peach, and the little spots along its seam.
All in all, I am happy with what I did with a pretty unappealing bowl of fruit: a hard peach and overripe bananas that I had no interest in eating. 


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