Crab Apple

Crab Apple
Oil  6" x 6"
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Colorado Springs is beautiful right now.  There are blossoms on fruit trees all over town.  We're lucky this year that the recent snow didn't freeze them all.  We have a great crab apple tree in our backyard, over looking the deck, that is in full bloom.  I set this up in my studio to get a shadow in the background.  There might be more!

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Mother's Day Crab Apple
6" x 6" oil on gessoed board
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A Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers: those living, those who we remember,  and, those of us who are.

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6" x 6" oil on panel
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We have a wild crab apple tree right next to our deck.  It's spectacular right now, covered with vibrant pink/magenta blossoms.  All around town the fruit trees are just blossoming this week.  It's a beautiful time of year.

Crab Apple Blossoms 4

5" x 7 " oil on masonite
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It's amazing how quickly the trees blossom once they start. In 3 days almost every blossom has bloomed on our crab apple. Up and down the street are deep pink trees. I love spring colors. I recommend painting the same thing several times. It really gets you to look, and in the case of these blossoms, I've notided so much color change in the green of the leaves and the pinks of the blossoms.

Happy Apple Farm

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel
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This morning my plein-aire group, Garden Artists, painted at the Happy Apple Farm in Penrose, Colorado, about 50 minutes south of town. The blossoms there are just a little bit ahead of those here in the Springs. Interestingly, different rows of the trees in the orchard are different kinds of apples. So, some of the rows are really blossoming and some are just starting to bloom. I'd never thought about that before, but it makes sense that all apple trees wouldn't blossom at the same time, if they were a different kind of apple. The owner explained to us which rows were which. I chose the rows with the most blossoms. It was a beautiful morning for plein-aire painting.

Crab Apples #3

5" x 7" oil on masonite
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This is the third in my crab apple series. The blossoms are just opening. And so quickly. It's amazing when you really watch. One day the tree just had a pinkish tint. And now, we have a few blossoms. It still is so interesting to me that the closed little blossom is so red, but so pink when opened. I would have thought it would have been dark pink when closed. Mother Nature never ceases to amaze.

Crab Apple Blossoms 2

5" x 7" oil on masonite
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I posted the first of what I decided would be a series of the growth of the crab apple tree from our backyard on April 4th. The leaves are now a little greener, and the blossoms are just starting to grow, but haven't yet begun to bud. Outside, the tree appears to have a dark pinkish tone. But the tiny little blossom buds appear red up close.

First Sign of Spring

5" x 7" oil on masonite
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We have a large crab apple tree next to our deck. For two weeks every April (unless we have a late, heavy snow) we have gorgeous blossoms. The tree is just starting to bud and leaf (this is the first sign of any flower at all in our yard.) I've done several blossom paintings in past years that I really like, and this year thought I'd chronicle the growth and development of the blossoms in my daily paintings; maybe every other day. In the fall the tree has lots of small crab apples and beautiful colored leaves. The trunk of the tree is in our yard, but many of the branches hang over the fence and, when the apples fall, attract animals. We have come home at night to a bear sitting next to the garage eating the apples and refusing to move. Of course, we waited for him to leave before we got out of the car.


The apple blossoms will be pink, so I toned my canvas in pink, which I don't think I've ever used before. For landscapes I usually tone with cad yellow deep, yellow ochre, or red. For still lifes I usually choose a complementary color. I like the way the pink shows through on this. This piece is so small, and the leaves and buds almost abstract, I really had to just look at the color, put the color note down. As Monet said "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you...merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you."