I really like what I did. I felt I broke through something and made a proper watercolour. I was faithfully trying to capture all the marks pear and it was starting to look stiff and plastic. I suddenly decided to just paint faster. I basically stopped looking at the details and started doing squiggly lines and dabbing it away. Colour wise, I painted a last layer of brighter green. These moves made the pear suddenly come alive.

Frankly I don’t really know what I did but it made a big difference to the whole thing.