16x20 APPLES GARDEN IMPRESSIONIST PLEIN AIR FRAMED ORIG

PERFECT RED APPLES IN MY GARDEN
LOVELY OAK AND WALNUT FRAME MADE BY ARTIST
WIRED AND READY TO HANG

I painted this painting in my backyard, just before I picked the apples. The composition is very modern, but my pride in the apples I grew is very old-fashioned! I set up my easel right next to the apple tree, and painted it, weather permitting, over a week or so. In the background are a big maple tree, a rail fence and gate, a ghostly bird bath, and some indistinct lawn furniture. Not much of a garden but what more do you need with apples like that? There's plenty of detail and the paint is bright with fully saturated colors. Signed "Christy 2007."
It is painted on a very high quality canvas stretcher that I made myself. The frame was also made by me. It is a lovely naturally finished oak with a walnut inner liner, 2" deep, 1" wide, and finished to a fine woodworking standard. Wired and ready to hang.

PERFECT RED APPLES; CLOSE-UP 1

PERFECT RED APPLES; CLOSE-UP 2

PERFECT RED APPLES; CLOSE-UP 3

PERFECT RED APPLES; SIDE VIEW

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About Me
I've been a full-time artist for twentytwo years. Through the years I've been in numerous solo and group shows, mostly in the West - Seattle, Mendocino,San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Bisbee, Az. - but also in the Midwest and South - Wisconsin (Lake Superior area), Chicago, and Atlanta. In all these places I created unique works suited for these areas. I have sold well over a thousand paintings. But of course, not every work in a show sells (oftentimes not even the best ones), galleries go out of business (they can even be more unstable than artists), the artist travels on ... I have an enormous archive of unsold, maybe even never shown paintings.
Now I work out of the midwest, and travel west to paint on site and collect images. I also love painting the Midwestern landscape. So, art for sale here may have been made very recently. Or, it may be 10 or more years old. I stand completely behind all of my work that is for sale, here, whenever it was created. Everything for sale is recognizably my work, and only my work. And if you like it, that's all that should matter.
I am also a competent carpenter. So, many of my canvas stretches were made by me. I also made many of the frames. If a painting is on one of my hand-made stretchers or in one of my hand-made frames, I will try to make note of that, or email me. This does increase the works value - imagine if you owned a Picasso where he made the stretcher and the frame!
If you want to change a frame on a work, or add a fame to a gallery-wrapped work, please talk to me before you purchase the item, so that can be included in the ebay sale (for your protection!).

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