4/6/16 brush pen, watercolor, colored pencil |
When Nilda told me about a block in Ballard filled with
“pink clouds” of apple blossoms, I was a little confused; I’d always thought
apple blossoms were white. Yet I’d also seen many trees all over Seattle that
had recently exploded with bright pink blossoms (a much brighter pink than cherry blossoms, which peaked in mid-March).
I didn’t know what those pink trees were, but then I started to wonder – are those
apples, too? *
On an afternoon like today – 66 and sunny! – I didn’t need much
incentive to take a top-down drive to Ballard to see the trees for myself. From
a block away, I could already spot the pink on both sides of the street. I could
have picked any of them to sketch, but I chose the one that had recently had a low
branch completely torn off. (I guess I have a thing for mangled or dismembered
trees.)
4/6/16 ink, colored pencil |
At the same intersection of 14th Northwest and
Northwest 63rd Street, a white (faux, I think) leather couch had
been abandoned on the grassy divide between the two sides of 14th,
so I bagged another one for my “urban couches” series.
* A quick Google image search confirmed that some apple
blossom varieties are bright pink while others are white. I’ve sometimes
observed grafted trees displaying mostly pink branches with one or two white,
or vice versa. I had assumed that a cherry or plum had been interracially mixed
with an apple to come up with those trees. Now I’m thinking it’s more logical for
them to be a mix of two varieties of apple.
4/6/16 inks, colored pencils |
Nice job on the pinks of the apple trees. The couch in the grass made me smile.
ReplyDelete