Borrowed Fruit

I actually asked someone if I could borrow their pear...I did, in fact, return it.

Watercolor on paper, 5 x 8 inches.

So I learned two things with this piece.  The first of which I think it called glazing.  The napkin was originally done the wrong color, so once it had fully dried I went over it with a wash of another color to tint or glaze it.  I liked this technique a lot and plan on using it more later.

The second thing was more of an experiment.  When I originally painted it there was a large bloom on the lower left of the pear that became more pronounced as it dried.  the next day I mixed up a dark green and managed to repair that spot.  The trick is/was when your trying to fix a dark area using a wet into dry technique you have to be very gentle otherwise you'll begin lifting the dry pigment off the page with the wet brush and only make matters worse for yourself.

Now if I could only figure out a way to correct things like that fuzzy yellow halo on the middle right...well I guess more careful painting will fix that in the future.

The owner of the pear liked seeing the finished painting.