Two Pears - some variations on a theme

The first pear picture had been painted on the corner of a previous painting I hadn't liked much. I thought the picture of the two pears worked ok. However, the rest of the canvas was still showing the old painting. I decided to paint a series of variations on the pear theme in the remaining three quarters of the canvas. This is the first stage, still very basic, I'm just setting out the rough compositions and general colour relationships. I'll start putting in more detail and modelling over the next few days (hopefully).