Autumn leaves watercolor painting - #2 approach

After the autumn leaves watercolor painting was finished (see last post) and looking at it for a few days, I tried to add some interest into the painting.  The watercolor painting shows the color of the leaves in autumn and yet it is too common in a sense that it does not have attact me to look at it more.  I started by taping around the inside of the painting leaving about inch and a half of space on the outside.  Then I start to remove some of the watercolor paint on the paper by wetting the paper and then blot it off with tissue.  The color start to appear lighter around the taped edges showing a lighter frame of watercolor surrounding the middle.  I carefully paint around some leaves with water so as to leave a couple of leaves extend from the middle of the painting with full color.  Once the tape is removed, I outline the leaves and the square frame using a black medium Staedtler Lumocolor pen.