Fruit Peels, a wonderful subject for watercolours

In our latest watercolour session we painted 'Fruit Peels'. It was great fun to do, and the results were so good! See for yourselves:

Charlie's mandarine with peel... It is so juicy and fruity! I especially like how she painted the peeled fruit, leaving out the base colour (not white, a first layer of very diluted ochre). Clever - and wonderful effect.

This near-perfect apple-peel was painted by Martin. So well and patiently done, with a sparkle of light and very true colours. And if you look carefully you can see that the apple is in there too. Super.

Denise's WIP of limes and peels. She will still work on it - but for now, I am loving the whites both on the peels and the limes. Looking forward to seeing the next stage.

As we were not with many, I had time to paint a simple peel. Such fun! If you look close you can see that I mainly 'dotted' the colours, for the orange-y effect...

Now finished: Anna's Kiwi. She worked really serious on it and perfectly matched the colours. It looks so gorgeous and sweet, and there was a 'happy accident' with the shadow underneath that is now a delicate lace tablecloth...


Laura came in late and still got this far with the cutest teddy bear ever! What a lovely little bloke he is, WIP of course but can't miss, this is going to be another jewel for the kid's bedrooms...

This wild, wet, marvelous fountain sculpture of Helena of Troy (I think) was painted by Sonya. WIP, the masking fluid will come off and change the image and there will be other tweaks, yet the basis is excellent!