McIntosh Apple

Oil on 5"x7" hardboard panel

I'm always attracted to the striking green and red pattern of colors on these apples. I think it's funny sometimes, the extra time I take to pick out fruit at the store because I'm more interested in the colors, shape, and stem than it's ripeness.
I can imagine other artists doing this, maybe taking twice as long to pick out a bouquet of flowers, or a piece of cheescake, fruit, or a certain vase because they are wondering how the light will fall on it, what color would they mix for the shadow area, what color could the background be??? .. and on and on...

"Pear, Apple, Grapes"

Oil on 5x7 hardboard panel

Boy, have I been having trouble getting a painting done lately. But, finally, I am happy with this one. I really liked painting the cloth, I love the shapes that can be created with it.

"Cut Apple"

Oil on 6"x6" Ampersand Gessobord

"Apple in Shadow with Grapes"

Oil on 6"x6" Hardboard panel
There is a bit of glare in the dark areas in this photo, I'll try to get a better one, but this one is good for now.

Tangerine Painting with Pear and Apple (Finish)

(Above) "Tangerine" Oil on 5"x7" Linen Panel


"Fruit with Tangerine Painting" Oil on 6"x8" Linen Panel

Here is the little tangerine painting I did, and a painting of that painting with a bosc pear and a ginger gold apple with it. The tangerine didn't originally have any leaves on it, I just taped a sprig of leaves to it to paint by. And as that painting sat finished, I brought out the pear and apple to see what I could do next, and noticed how nice they looked sitting in front of the tangerine painting. So, decided to paint it that way. I had fun painting these.

"Apple with Leaves"

Oil on 5"x7" hardboard
I finished painting this apple yesterday. The apple is from the grocery store, and the leaves are from a crab apple tree in my backyard. I like the look of the dying leaves, together with the ripened fruit.
Thank you everyone for all of your wonderful comments, they are so greatly appreciated!!!

"Apple and Grapes"

Oil on 5"x7" Canvas Panel
It took me a few days to get a picture of this painting. It seems to be very hard for my camera to pick up differences in red colors accurately. I spent some time experimenting with photoshop, and came up with this image. I still think the original painting has some subtle color changes that are not showing up in the photo, at least, not on my monitor. This is as close as I could get.

Peeled Apple 5"x7" Gessobord

I thought it might be nice to try painting a peeled apple. I took pictures of the apple in a few different poses, and kept them for reference, since it didn't take long for the apple to lose it's freshness, and to change color.

"Fresh Cut Apple"

Oil on 6"x6" Ampersand Gessobord

I was hesitating to try and paint a cut apple because the white of the apple changes so fast and becomes more yellow. And I love the color of that fresh cut apple!! So, I just made sure to try and do the white first before it changed on me. I like how this came out, and the pictures came out good too, I couldn't decide between these two, so I just thought I'd post both.

Apple on Cloth

Oil on 5"x7" Canvas board

It's apple season here, and it's always nice this time of year to go to a farm market for apples and apple cider! I think this one is a macintosh. I had painted this picture a few days ago, and wasn't happy with how it was coming out, so I put it aside. I worked on it again today, changed a few things, and now I like it much better.

Little Crab Apple (Finished)

Oil on 5"x5" Ampersand Gessobord

( I changed the background color to a cooler gray. It was more of a light brown before, and didn't seem to do much to show off the apple)

Little Crab Apple

This little crab apple is from a tree in my backyard. I thought it would be fun to paint just one. I switched from painting on my canvas panels to an ampersand gessobord. I always like the smoothness of these boards, and it seems as if I have better control of the paint on them. I painted this picture late, so I couldn't take a very good picture of it. Plus, just as I was finished with it, I picked it up from the easel, and it dropped out of my hands!!!!! and it landed (of course) face down on the floor. Geeez! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I think it might have a few little spots I have to fix up.

Apple Paintings

This painting of the 2 Apples is Sold.

Click here for a link to the auction page for the first painting and here for the second as pictured above.