Painted Wine Bottle
I did paint ON glass once, this is oil on glass with a Harry Lauder branch and is in the gallery "in a frame" in Yellow Springs. My daughter has this fabu tree called a Harry Lauder tree in her front garden. The tree is named after a much beloved scottish entertainer who performed using its crooked branch as a cane. The shrub itself was discovered growing in an English hedgerow in the mid-1800s. In the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl has some nice info on this very unusual tree. I called it transmutation because it is about art of changing and transforming your mental state.
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This is my favorite work of yours thus far that you have displayed on your blog. I really liked the originality displayed in the face painting on the glass bottle and the fact that you ‘transmuted’ the tree branch from/into it. It almost looks as if the person is in the throes of undergoing a transmutation and the thoughts are spilling out of the top. Beautiful!!
thanks sunil, the intention is exactly as you imagined, which is really cool.
And I love that tree - how cool!
hugs.
ah chana I wish. The bottle has been sitting in the gallery for a year.
You know I think I WILL put it in the saatchi site Lone Beader :)
Hiay dr.john, how are you today? Is there no end to my creativity, lol! I don't know, but I think at times it is too distracting from concentrating on one medium. I decided not to fight it though.
phew though that is a heavy compliment phillip. Now I am really going to get embarrassed.
I didn't prepare the glass the way I was supposed to I learned later. anyway what I did was sanded it a bit, coated it with black chalk paint, used oil paint, then coated it with gloss varnish. It is lovely to paint on.
remarks that the children I used to work with would give about this piece! I used to present art pieces in classrooms and always loved to ask the children what they felt a piece represented or how it made them feel.
Can you imagine how they would react to this one? I just love it...Bill and I have promised ourselves that we will get back to YS this month. I want to check out this gallery and many other places.
The reverse paintings in the earlier posts were just glorious.
You are so vastly talented...it is so amazingly refreshing. So original.
LOVE that tree and those branches.
Hugs,
Sue
Take Care
Michael