Not much going on this week I’m afraid, but I did take time yesterday for a small watercolour study of the blossom on my second apple tree, which has just started blooming. This one was a recent birthday present from Jim and grows Granny Smith apples (hopefully!).
I decided I needed a second tree because the first one hasn’t given us any apples so far in the five years we’ve had it… they keep falling off when they’re still small, so I wondered if it needed a pollinator. We’ll just have to see how they both get on this year 🙂 .
This tree is a dwarf ballerina style, so it’s cultivated to be about a metre high and only produce small branches all the way up the trunk so what you see here is the entire length of a branch. I was fascinated to see just how different the blossom is on my new tree, the buds are a much deeper red, and no leaves yet just flowers and buds. For reference the study I made of the other tree, which is a Gala apple, can be found here.
Colours used here: Alizarin Crimson, Indian Yellow, Sap Green, Indanthrene Blue and Burnt Sienna.
Lovely Kez…I like what you said in the previous entry (the Gala apple one) about it being ‘for the bin’ so therefore available for practice.
I must adopt this very attitude to my current ‘problem child’ in the studio. It is totally getting me into a lather…I must ‘consign it’ (in theory) to the bin and just have a play with it. Couldn’t possibly do any more damage than is already done!! 😛 xx
Thanks Moira,
It’s a great thing, if you can trick yourself into the mindset :-P, Kerry x
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