Two still life paintings - two different mediums

I recently created two still life paintings using two different mediums namely soft pastels and water colour.

1. The steel bowl with garlic placed at the side, done using Mungyo and KOH-I-NOOR soft pastels on black coloured rough textured chart paper.
2. Ripe pear with tiny brown patches on it, done on handmade paper using Camel artists quality water colour tubes.

Two still life paintings

Steel bowl with garlic at the side done in soft pastels

and 

A pear done in water colours.

Creating small works are more like doing "Study works". They help you get a better understanding about the form, shape, shadow etc.

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Water colour painting of garlic - Campap paper

Water colour painting on CAMPAP paper from Malaysia (200 gsm )

I have painted garlic as a subject before but this time I wanted to change the composition by giving it

a red background and placing the two cloves of garlic in different positions so as to try out new angles

of perspective.

 Moreover I have been using the handmade paper for long so wanted to try out CAMPAP

paper which I recently purchased during sale. ( Have posted the image of the pad with 12 papers

in it ). The colours used are the usual Camel brand artists quality tubes.

Garlic

Size 6" X 8" ( Including mountboard )

Water colour painting on Campap paper 200gsm

I will be doing few more water colour paintings on Campap paper to know more about its water retaining

capacity and other advantages over my regular Indian hand made paper that I am using ( which turns out pretty economical ). 

The right kind of brushes also play a very important role in water colour paintings. Presently I am using the normal Camel brand as is available in most art stores but wish to buy some better quality brushes soon from FLIPKART, which is selling Daler and Rowney brush sets at a good discount.