Organic Apples! 5 different varieties.

"Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard"---Walt Whitman

After thinking about the last entry with the cupcake I realized it wasn't fair to completely shut out all hope for desserts in my life.  So here I went to Whole Foods today in preparation for a Thanksgiving full of gluten, dairy and sugar free recipe options.  What better time a year to come together and share a meal with family and friends and who says it has to be bad for you and put on the extra pounds and make you feel sick afterwards...the meal could be created with the freshest organic ingredients and reducing as much processed canned goods as possible.  That is my challenge for the next week to get ready for our firs all out healthy Thanksgiving meal.  

The first step was shopping for the organic apples today in preparation for the apple tart and apple stuffing recipes that will be made later in the week.  I found 5 varieties of Organic Apples: gala, mc intosh, braeburn, golden delicious and cameo.  I plan on peeling coring and slicing these apples up later in the week into thin slices and putting them in a pecan crusted apple tart or possibly the apple pie itself.  

I painted these bright healthy beautiful apples in gouache because I wanted to start getting the vibrancy that the watercolor doesn't always give me in a quicker time.  It was only one coat for the background bowl and a few coats for the foreground apples and they were done.  Much faster and the same ease as the watercolor.  The affect is much more opaque though so what do you think?  Delicious?  

Organic Apples, 5 different varieties, 7" x 9 3/4", Gouache.