Showing posts with label cocktail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cocktail. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

I Display My Values

 "Breakfast Bar"
10 x 10 inches, oil on canvas
$300

Hope you all enjoyed the blog carnival-slash-virtual-studio-tour yesterday! I thought my studio was pretty cool, but man, now I've got serious studio envy! The Titanium is always whiter....

So, this painting has a back-story. And as with many stories, it beings with "I've got this friend...." Because I do. Have this friend. Who is really into whiskey - or scotch - or whatever this stuff is - and also likes art. His big idea was to buy me a bottle and see what kind of painting I'd make of it after sampling the goods.

Let the record show: I'm perfectly willing to be the victim of sadistic artistic manipulations when high-quality alchohol is involved.

The eggs were kind of incidental. I had just finished this piece, and thought, 'Man, some whisky/scotch/moonshine would be really good right now,' and before I knew it, I had begun my commission. 

The value scale was another happy accident. I just threw it in there, but halfway through the painting I saw the genius. Whiskey and eggs for breakfast - now those are some solid values. Get it? Yuk yuk.

Friday, May 25, 2012

"High Spirits" liquor vodka martini glass olives bar decor oil painting

8 x 10"
oil on canvas
Sold

I'm posting this at exactly 5 pm, which seems appropriate! Does anyone else have exotic mixology-type plans for the long weekend? I'll be running a 20K trail race in the morning, so I think I'll save the martini for tomorrow night!

(Also, I have to add that the vodka bottle top does not touch the top of the canvas in "real life." Not sure whether it's Blogger or my photog skills to blame here.)