Crab Apple

Crab Apple
Oil  6" x 6"
SOLD
$75.00 + $10. s/h

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!

Crab Apple

Crab Apple
7" x 5"  Oil
$75.00 + $10.00 s/h

SOLD

Some years we get blossoms on our fruit trees and some years we don't.  It depends on when the last frost is each spring.  At 6,000 feet we can have a freeze in Colorado Springs into May.

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Mother's Day Crab Apple
6" x 6" oil on gessoed board
$100.00 + $10. s/h
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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
$100.00 + $10. s/h
Please contact me if interested
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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.

Leading Light

6" x 6" oil on canvas panel
$75.00 + $10. s/h
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One day each month my plein-aire group drives to an out of town location to paint. Today we went to Denver (70 miles north) to the Iris 4 u Iris Gardens. Iris 4 U grows and hybridizes tall bearded iris. While only about 20% of the iris were blooming (due to Colorado's cool spring) there were hundreds to paint, and thousands more which will be blooming the rest of this week and next. I may have to drive back up there and paint again as the grounds were beautiful. I really didn't know there were (are) that many varitities and colors of iris. And, of course, each iris has a unique name.

Fire Bush Sprig

8" x 10" oil on canvas panel
$75.00 = $10. s/h
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I don't know the name of this bush. We only have one; it's next to the patio and partly under the deck. Maybe that's why I haven't paid much attention to it over the years. But right now it's on fire. It's strange, the orange blossoms are at the base of the shrub, unlike most blossoms which are at the end of the branches. So, I named it the fire bush. Maybe someone out there knows the real name. I think it's appropriate to paint flowers the day before Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers out there.