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| "Cherry Blossom Season" sold |
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| "Spring Song" (oil, 12" x 10") sold |
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| "Weeping Cherry Blooming" (oil, 12" x 9") sold |
Cherry trees got to be the most seductive trees in the world. Look at "Cherry Blossom Season," my most recent painting of cherry trees in full bloom. Trunks and branches twist in all directions. Not all cherry trees behave this way, of course. Some have straight limbs, like those featured in "Spring Song." The weeping variety in "Weeping Cherry Blooming" looks like cascading pink waterfalls.
In all varieties, the fluffy clusters of pale pink flowers drape the trees top to bottom in early spring. They all look like ballerinas in pink gossamer tutus. Innocent and intoxicating at the same time. Stand under their pink umbrellas. You are transported to a pink heaven. When they are spent, petals drift down like pink snow. If there is a breeze, you get caught in the midst of a pink blizzard. No slow, ugly death for cherry blossoms. From beginning to end, there is nothing uncool about cherry trees in season.
I am utterly seduced by the magic of cherry blossoms. I keep painting them, trying to capture their exuberant, yet delicate, essence. Someday I will succeed to my heart's content.
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