More peaches!

I subbed again this week at the watercolor class - we had another still life with delicious looking peaches.  We all decided that we did NOT want to paint a basket... or a glass bowl... or a metal bowl... so Barbara found this wonderful ceramic colander.  It was blue gray - a perfect compliment to the yellow/orange peaches.

She tried several different cloths under the colander - a lace napkin, a fancy damask cloth and finally a fun orange and white checked towel.  (After all that, I decided to leave out the cloth - I am still into 'simplifying.')

Lastly, she flooded the entire set up with a spotlight which added strong shadows and made the peaches glow!  At the end of the class it is amazing to see how differently we each paint the same thing.  Wish I had taken pictures of all the other paintings.