Our lesson for this week was "Learning to see Edges". I cheated a little on this one as I was late getting time to work on it. So did a fun thing.
Used a cloned picture of a gourd, filled clone with gradient fill (selenium tint) Used the brush, texture spray cloner to clone some colors from photo on gourd. I used same brush with clone color turned off to pick up shades from the background gradient fill. Added layer, used gradient fill again, turn off show texture,on that layer, deduced opacity to 25%. Dropped layers and applied lighting.