Coloring Book

I have always loved to color, but have never had much patience for really working on a picture to make it look just right.  However, I rethought my whole coloring method recently.  A friend gifted me with a bucket full of the most gorgeous bouquet of colored pencils you've ever seen, so I thought it high time I put them to use.  This conveniently coincided with a visit to my much more artistic sister, and she loaned me a wonderful book called The Colored Pencil Painting Bible.   Below are my first attempts to work through the exercises.

This was supposed to be a pear, but I think it looks like a halved avocado.