There are many who do not know about these apples.
The variety is Gravenstein, and that link will tell you
more about them.
I grew up with them - in pies, applesauce, and eating out of hand. When I found them in our local store, I had a fit and bought enough for a pie and then went back and
found more for applesauce
(no sugar needed! no peeling either ... just blend all after cooking).
There have been a few paintings in the past of these apples.
If you Google, you will find some.
I found this:
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Gravenstein Apple Postcard.
This Gravenstein Apple was painted in 1909
by Amanda Almira Newton (1860-1943) in
Albermarle County, Virginia, United States.
| I don't think the owner of this site will be upset, but I want to give acknowledgement to them. |
I found it here:
Of course I also had to paint them
after seeing their beauty sitting in the black wire basket.
Here are my progress photos:
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| the real apples in the basket |
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| sketch in charcoal over an old painting |
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| This panel holder is a hack that my husband made me, found on the interwebs. Shhhhhh ... it is really good for small paintings. |
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| I have been taking photos outside because even when cloudy, the light is so much better than artificial. |
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| Gravensteins in Wire Basket 6 x 8 inches oil on Arches Huile paper, with gesso underlayer |
For those interested in this art journey, I do wish to tell you about my first-ever website!!
I am working daily on it and it will always be
a wip (work-in-progress) ...
Thank you, as always, for reading this blog.
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2 comments:
Teri, it's lovely to see the progress paintings and great too to see that I'm not the only one working on top of old pieces of work. Canvas and boards are not cheap and if we can re-use it's a great idea. But also, I think the underwork adds gravitas to the new work. I love that idea even more and I think it has happened here where you end up with a lovely exuberant painting which sings above the underlying browns. I like the way you handled the wire basket. It really contains those apples but has a sort of fragility about it too.
We don't get Gravenstein apples but they sound marvellous!
Hi Sheila - thank you so much for your compliments! I just now came back into my blog and realize that when there is a comment, I do not get notice ... so I will have to make sure to look back after I post! Many cheers and I hope someday you get to taste a Gravenstein apple!
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