Jonagold

Jonagold

5" x 5"

watercolor on paper

I have yet to find a Jonagold specimen that is particularly noteworthy or beautiful.  As this project winds down though I feel the need to document everything I can get my hands on.  I may have taken some artistic liberties with this one in my attempt to give its appearance some much needed pizzazz.  

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Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious 

5" x 5"

watercolor on paper

This Golden Delicious specimen is typical of many of the apples found at the farmer's market in that it's a bit pale and smaller in stature than its heroically large and waxed-shining super market counterpart.  Still beautiful, and with its leaf intact, a rare bonus.

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Opal

Opal 

6" x 7"

watercolor on paper

This apple was so beautiful I felt the need to paint it twice to try and capture some of its fire.  I painted this while listening to Julee Cruse's Floating Into the Night album and I think the ethereal nature of her voice was the perfect soundtrack for painting such an enchanting specimen. I'm happy with both versions.  (see the previous post for my first rendition)

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Opal (second version)

Opal 

6.5" x 6.5"

watercolor on paper

Opal is a cross between Golden Delicious and Topaz varieties.  It comes from the Czech Republic and is really delicious. 

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Esopus Spitzenberg

Esopus Spitzenberg

6" x 6"

watercolor on paper

I did several double takes when I read this name for the first time.  Esopus Spitzenberg is an antique apple variety that was supposedly a favorite of Thomas Jefferson.  The more literate visitors of this blog may appreciate that the E.S. apple is mentioned in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener --

....“Copying law-papers being proverbially a dry, husky sort of business, my two scriveners were fain to moisten their mouths very often with Spitzenburgs, to be had at the numerous stalls nigh the Custom House and Post office.”

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Mutsu

Mutsu 

7" x 7"

watercolor on paper

This descendent of Golden Delicious was developed in the Mutsu Province of Japan in the 1930's.  Sometime later it was rechristened "Crispin," but now it's marketed under both names.  I think Mutsu has a better ring to it.  Crispin sounds too much like Pippin (another variety) which will presumably show up on this blog one of these days...

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Piñata

Piñata 

6" x 6"

watercolor on paper

After smashing this open with a baseball bat I can report:
NO CANDY INSIDE.

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