Pigment power

A little sketch of a solo lemon slice. I like it when my paints

are really juicy and I almost put too much color on the paper.

Like in the background here. The pigments always look so good

when they are wet, but always dry just that much lighter. It's hard

to strike that balance between transparent color and working with

the white of the paper and just killing the sparkle. Maybe that's why,

once I frame my watercolors behind shiny glass that they look

finished, almost like they've been varnished with a gloss.