Watercolor painting - Chili

 

This is a 5 x 7 inches watercolor painting of a red chili pepper.  I try to apply a wash for a background instead of leaving it white as many of my last paintings.  This is a still life using artist Winsor and Newton watercolor and is done on cold press watercolor paper.   This one was done by painting the chili pepper first and leave the background and the shadow for last.  I will try to do one where I paint the background first and leave the pepper and shadow for last.  Then I would like to do another one with an underpainting for the entire sheet of paper before I paint the subject and the background.  It would be a good exercise for me to learn the property of the transparent watercolor.