Cathie Richardson Illustration

  I've had a consistent apple theme this year with sketch prompts ,  articles I've come across, and  books I've read.   They are my favorite fruit, so it caught my attention. I joined a "sketch a day" app and the prompt was "weight and I chose a bushel of apples. I rearranged the artwork a bit to make the card above. Click here for Love You Bushel and Peck card details I just finished reading "The Invisible Hour" by Alice Hoffman and she writes about " Look No Further " apples that were discovered in Westfield, Mass . in the 1700s. One of my favorite lines in the book is, " The Puritans believed that women should be subjugated because Eve ate of the apple, committing original sin. You should eat an apple every day to spite the idiots who thought so." This apple is from my "Lila's Garden" coloring book on Amazon. Some more apple references I've come across  this year are the  Apples of Hesperides , golden apples...