How to Paint Watercolor Fruit: Peach

And now ladies and gentlemen.......... I give you the last fruit tutorial.  This is actually this simplest fruit of them all.  I didn't use salt on this one because peaches have a softer texture.

Materials:

Peach Template printed on computer paper

5x7 piece of watercolor paper

pencil

paint brush

watercolor paints

cup of water (for rinsing)

paper towels (for blotting in between color changes)

Step 1: Transfer the peach template to your watercolor paper by placing the template under the watercolor paper, holding it up to a lighted window and lightly tracing in pencil.  Trace lightly so the pencil won't show through the paint.

Step 2: Beginning at the bottom of the peach, paint on a slightly tangerine-ish color.  You want the peach to be a little darker on the bottom and get lighter and lighter towards the top.  So you can paint a more straight orange in the middle, and add water to lighten at the top all the way up to the stem.

Step 3: Now paint your leaf with a light green/ lime color.  I like working from the outside in so that the colors stay fresh on the edges and mix a little where they meet.

Step 4:  We can't leave this peach without any texture, so drop some clean water from your brush onto the leaf and top of the peach (or any other place you would like).

Let it dry and you'll see the awesome backwash effect appear!

Well that's it for the fruit series!  If you missed the previous tutorials, you can check them out here.

I hope you have fun with these and paint some fruit for your kitchen this summer!  Mine will be hanging in my kitchen- once I have a house that's finished to hang them in :)