Mush Room

My sister was cooking the other night, and I saw these mushroom stems and thought they looked really beautiful. I tried to paint with watercolor on hot-press which was interesting. (I am used to cold-press). It gives it this washy effect and it looks really different when it dries. 
I later found out that it wasn't really a shitake mushroom but a portobello. oh well. (google doesn't know how to spell either of those, and neither do I).