pear trees, early May
We have pear trees all around town, along major roads and framing the lawns of municipal buildings. They are beautiful trees, and they are just starting to bloom.
This small painting is pastel and charcoal and some graphite on a soft printmaking paper. I did a quick pencil sketch out in the car. These trees are growing beside a road near my studio, a road wide enough that I could pull over and stop the car to do the sketch. What you cannot see--to the left, outside of the frame of the painting's trees--is a wide, scrabby field, a "super fund site," i.e. a place of toxic dump. At the far other end of this field is our municipal waste water treatment plant. An odd landscape. Still, the part of the view with pear trees is beautiful.
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