Two versions of Lemons with leaves...

Hello, I'm not very updated on my blog, compared to Instagram where it's so much easier to show latest news, so to catch up here are two studies done of lemons with their leaves. They are done a few weeks ago and painted after a slow drawing sessions from observation. To loosen up I painted without drawing and fast when putting first washes down, that dry I tend to slow down a little when adding shadows with second and third layers, but keeping the free feeling of the first washes.
I recommend to paint directly without drawing, or draw directly with a ballpoint pen, fine liner to get used to the "danger" and to get rid of fear when painting.

(50x32cm, paper is white for both paintings, sorry for bad quality of the second one!)