"Listen, if you want to become an artist, you must draw objects, like a bell pepper or a salt dispenser, draw bell peppers and salt dispensers for three years, and then see if you still want to become an artist!"

OK folks, the sand in my hourglass is already running low, so I don't think I'll post pictures of bell peppers and salt dispensers for the next three years, but maybe a few... so here's my first approach at a "living" bell pepper (instead of drawing from a photo) which happened to sit in the kitchen, waiting to be discovered as a model.