A Peeled Orange on a Blue Table, the Peel Still Attached

A sunlit citrus still life rendered in transparent watercolor and fine graphite on warm ivory cotton paper, composed in a horizontal 16:9 frame. Looking down obliquely at a powder-blue kitchen table: toward the upper left sits a small, shallow cobalt ceramic dish holding two whole mandarins, while one peeled mandarin rests closer to the viewer on the right, its unbroken curl of peel winding loosely across the table, three separated segments resting beside it. Keep the arrangement asymmetrical and intimate, as if freshly interrupted — distinct, believable fruit shapes, the peel visibly still connected to the partly peeled fruit. Let late-morning sunlight enter from the upper left, casting long, soft lavender-blue shadows toward the lower right. Pool luminous orange washes at the rind edges, with pale yellow translucent flesh, a few dark graphite contour marks, subtle cobalt pigment granulation, and broad passages of untouched ivory paper around the blue tabletop. Ground the dish with a contact shadow, its rim following one coherent perspective. Keep the overall painting airy and gestural, concentrating the most precise detail on the peeled fruit while the edges dissolve into the paper's own texture. This should read as an original, finished watercolor artwork, presented edge to edge with no frame, lettering, or border.