Ladies Legs Corkscrew

I have managed to finish my 7.5 x 10 inches corkscrew painting on the Ladies Legs corkscrew.  I continue with where I left off from yesterday and apply watercolor paint on the rest of the corkscrew.  I used wet into wet, flat wash and gradted wash on the painting.  On the pink strips of the legs, I first painted the stripes and then apply a wash on the total area.  I then lift some of the paint from the stripes by using a hog hair oil paint brish.  The background was the most troublesome for me.  At first I leave the background all white whithout painting any shadows but later I noticed that it looks more like a illustration than a painting so I apply some paint for some shadows.  Once I did that I feel I would be better off painting a slight background and the above is the final painting of the Ladies Legs corkscrew.