One Eggplant · Watercolor Lifting

SUBJECT
One whole purple eggplant with a short green stem and attached calyx; its rounded body narrows naturally into the calyx.

COMPOSITION
Show the entire eggplant lying diagonally across a warm-white paper field, with its stem toward the upper right and its rounded base toward the lower left. Use a slightly elevated view and generous margins.

STYLE GUIDE
1. Shape & line
Build the eggplant with a gently bulging silhouette that tapers into a small pointed green calyx; define its outline through the edge of the painted wash, sharpening the stem and calyx while keeping parts of the rounded body edge soft.

2. Color & light
Place the light at the image's upper left, keeping the body's upper-left surface pale violet and its lower-right surface deep purple. Lift a broad curved highlight from the upper-left wash with a damp brush, leaving a faint lavender tint and feathered transitions instead of an opaque white stripe.

3. Texture & material
Keep the washes transparent so the paper grain remains visible through both dark pigment and lifted areas. Let the lifted highlight show slightly uneven pigment removal, and retain richer color around its softened edges to make the subtraction of paint visible.

4. Composition
Keep the eggplant large enough for the lifted highlight to be clearly readable, with open paper surrounding it. Add a restrained violet-gray grounding shadow immediately beneath the lower-right edge, extending toward the image's lower right, and keep the surrounding paper quiet.

PRIORITY
Preserve the requested identity, count, action, composition and output settings. Apply the style rules within those constraints; a style reference must not replace the subject or layout. Within the style: Make the highlight read as pigment removed from a transparent wash.

AVOID
Avoid opaque white highlights and a polished digital gradient.

OUTPUT
Produce one square image that reads as a watercolor painting on paper, without lettering, captions, borders, or watermarks.

SELF-CHECK
Confirm that the lifted area retains paper grain, a pale tint, and softened edges.