Week 1 Homework -- Paint 3 round things and one other

I couldn't bear to do more apples so I did a red onion and two pears.

I could do the pear shape but then fussed with it forever. Couldn't get the texture and little dots of brown. Then had to do the background and as usual it was more about what color will make it pop out instead of recede and how to use up the extra paint I glopped on the palette. It's okay.

Pear 2 is a Bosc pair and an apple in a bowl so more of a composition because it was there by accident and I again didn't know what to do about the background. I couldn't really use my junky beige tabletop as the background so I sort of edited. The bowl and apple was there. That one is okay. Might get rid of the white dots.

Red onion was really the 2nd painting and I thought it might be interesting but it was difficult to get the delicate strips of the skin. This was painted over and over a bunch of times and then I went to the background. Not really happy with my backgrounds. Pear 2 is a better background.