Habanero Chili Pepper in watercolor

 Habanero Chili Pepper- 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch on watercolor paper

Did another one of the Habanero Chili Pepper in watercolor.  Love the orange color and it's shape.  I am still struggling with the watercolor wash for the body of the pepper.  I would like to make the orange part more transparent and try a wet in wet wash next time instead.  Making mistake is how you learn.  In the library I  come across of a good book on watercolor wash by Joe Garcia.  I think I have loaned it out before and is called Mastering the Watercolor Wash.  It is a very informative book on different types of watercolor wash.  I think I might try to get a used one from ebay for my own reference.

Watercolor on paper - Habanero Pepper 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch on watercolor paper

Habanero Pepper - 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch watercolor on paper

My daily painting is still going on with a little Habanero Pepper this time. I hope my passion for the watercolor painting keeps up like the heat of this pepper.  I found out from the internet that this little Habanero type of Pepper has a Scoville Heat Units of 325,000 to 570,000.  Compare to a Jalapeno pepper which is only 5,000 Scoville Heat Units.  I have a few of these mixed into the chili sauce I made this year so the chili sauce end up much hotter than other years.  A small amount of the oil can cause a intense and prolonged oral suffering.  It is fun doing this pepper in watercolor because of the mix of different color from orange to red to yellow.  Love to do one in oil paint and the oil medium that I use is Winsor and Newton Water Soluble Oil.  Have not an oil painting in a while and I am wondering if I can, like many of the oil painters that they can finish a small 6 x 6 inch oil painting each day.  Well, may be that is my next challange after I get boared painting all these little chili peppers in watercolor.

Pepper #6 - Green

Chili Pepper #6 - 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 on watercolor paper

This is a green chili pepper I did last night.  Quite a quick exercise and I have been using some Ultramarine Blue mixed with green for the dark areas.  It was lots of fun.  I might want to try painting some chili pepper using oil paint.  I have tried Water Soluable Oil from Winsor and Newton before and it was fun too.

Chili Pepper #5

Chili Pepper #5 - 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Watercolor on paper

This one I did late last night.  I like the color of this pepper which is from yellow to a beautiful organge color.  Everytime I do a painting of any size I feel at one point that the painting is really looking bad and un-salvageable.  It is usually at the three quarter of the way.  At that point sometimes I will want to give up, destory it and start over again.  But if I can tell myself to stick to it, go on and pass that point, my painting tends to be ok the next day I look at it.  That is the time when I have to say to myself not to stop but do my best to go on.  It will turn our alright.

Another Curved Chili Pepper

Pepper #4 - 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Watercolor on paper.

This is another one of my small 2 1/2 in by 3 1/2 in Chili Pepper done in watercolor.  I did it very late in the evening before going to bed.  It does not take long and I urge if anyone likes to paint, they should do a little every day even though you don't seems to have time for any.  For practice and getting back into things, I know that practice doing it 10 minutes a day is better than doing 60 minutes in one day and skip 5 days. Comments welcome.

Hot Chili Sauce in a Jar

Hot Chili Sauce in a Jar -  5" x 7" Watercolor on paper

I have done a bigger painting this weekend with more time on my hands.  As you can see, it is on the jar of Red Chili Pepper all made into Hot Chili Sauce in a jar.  Rather than doing the small 2 1/2 in by 3 1/2 in painting.  Because of subject size, this watercolor painting is on a 5 in by 7 in watercolor paper.  It contains more detail and thus taken longer to do but I found it quite rewarding.

Another Pepper - Pepper #3

Pepper #3 - 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Watercolor on paper

Paint another pepper again last night.  Now it is 3 peppers all together.  These are all ATC card size which is 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 and would be interesting for me to try painting a bigger size watercolor.  Well, I found these peppers are quite nice to do and it is good to learn layering in doing my watercolor.

Another Pepper - Pepper #2

Pepper #2   2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Watercolor on paper

This is the second pepper I did and I hope this keeps up with my little bit of watercolor painting every day.  It is a small piece again but I think as long as I keep it up, I will eventually get back to my art.

My first watercolor after a while of inactivity

Red Pepper 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Watercolor on Paper

Finally last night I did a little watercolor of a red pepper.  It is in the size of an Artist Trading Card 2 1/2" x3 1/2".  I did a quick sketch of the pepper which my friends has given me to make Hot Chili Sauce a week ago.  I took some photograph of the pepper at the time and the watercolor was painted from one of the phographs.  I use Winsor Red, Wiinsor Violet (Winsor and Newton) and some green as my basic color in my watercolor.  Shown here is the finished Red Pepper in Watercolor.