Apple juice project and sketch
Last week my dad brought his sturdy Polish apple press over, so we could use it to make an incursion into the vast quantities of apples that keep falling off our trees. It's a handsome press:
We spent about three hours on Saturday washing, grinding and pressing large numbers of apples - you can see my entry on the process here on the food_porn community, or go straight to the set on Flickr, documenting the process in more photos with descriptions. We got 22 litres of incredibly delicious raw apple juice for our troubles, and there are still plenty of apples left for applesauce, cakes, and eating raw.
The Urban Sketchers blog I've been invited to join will be starting up soon. So far it looks to become a great place - the artist contributing do great work, and it's interesting to see the many styles of representation and choice of subject, as well as the different towns around the world. My introduction post will be going up shortly, and I'll link to it then.
Here's a quick sketch from this evening to look at while you wait - S reading, and one of the surviving apples in quarters:
