Two Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Last night I did a 5 x 7 inches watercolor painting of two chili peppers.  One is red and the other one is orange and yellow.  It is a good exercise to practice the color wash and the use of watercolor pigments.   The red chilli pepper is done with a mixture of reds and is put in layers.  Highlight is done using clean water on the paper before the red layer is applied.  Later on the highlights are lifted with a wet bristle brush.  More darker red is applied to the shadow side of the red chili pepper.  The yellow and orange pepper is done the same way with different pigments of watercolor.  Shadows is then applied as layers of blue purple watercolor on dry paper and then other more intense watercolor layer is put on top.  A little fun exercise.