Sometimes an apple...

So far watercolor seems to be one of those things that I have a hard time grasping. I just know that I will get it eventually. After all, it looks so easy! Yesterday was my first class of a new eight week session, and it is with a different artist with a different style of teaching. To begin, he passed around a bag of apples and we each picked one, first to draw and then to paint. I thought…I can do this. But the more I looked at that apple, the more I saw. I saw the light shifting on its shiny red surface and shadows trying to decide where to settle beneath it. There were specks of gold and stripes of Cabernet, a stem springing from a pale green navel.  It was more complex that I could handle! Although I did come up with something that resembled a red apple, the result may not have landed me in the top of the class. I figure it's OK to be a student with nowhere to go but up.