Eagle Rare Bourbon 6"x6" oil

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Eagle Rare Bourbon is aged no less than 10 years and each barrel is discriminately selected.   It offers consistent flavors but with an individual personality from each unique barrel.  They do make a 17 year old as well and both have won numerous awards.  Check out this link for more information.

I was thinking on all previous bourbon paintings that the white background was the best for showing off the wonderful amber glow coming through the bottle but I tried this blue and it was good too!

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Reading the newspaper 9"x12" oil

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I had a hard time getting a model for Friday, when I finally got this one I had a pose in mind from William McGregor Paxton called "the morning paper". My version is more poster like, it is just the way I saw it once it was set up.

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Four Roses in tandem 6"x6" oil

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Four Roses Small Batch and Single Barrel, you can click on the highlighted links to read more.  The legend  began when Paul Jones, Jr., the founder of Four Roses Bourbon, became smitten by the beauty of a Southern belle. It is said that he sent a proposal to her, and she replied that if her answer were "Yes," she would wear a corsage of roses on her gown to the upcoming grand ball. Paul Jones waited for her answer excitedly on that night of the grand ball…when she arrived in her beautiful gown, she wore a corsage of four red roses. He later named his Bourbon "Four Roses" as a symbol of his devout passion for the lovely belle, a passion he thereafter transferred to making his beloved Four Roses Bourbon.

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Bill Fletcher Workshop Day 5, 6"x8" oil

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Today in the Bill Fletcher Workshop each one of us painted from our own photo.  This was from a photo I took while in Rome, it was our first day and at sunset we walked up the long steps to a higher elevation and saw these domes.  The one on the right in the distance is the Vatican.

One lesson I learned today was looking at photos in a different manor, changing the cropping and coming up with a more pleasing composition.  Another thing I learned is tweaking the color within the value while not changing the value.  

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Four Roses 6"x6" oil

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I know what ya'll are thinkin, man is she a lush!  Well actually it is my friends fault, they keep bringing me these bourbons to drink.. I mean paint!   There are so many bourbons, so little time.  This one is Four Roses, single barrel, 100 proof and it has a leather tag on the neck with SB embossed on it.   There is also a small label on the bottom with the barrel number.  It contains hints of ripe plum and cherry with fruity, spicy aromas including maple syrup and cocoa.  It has won many awards.  

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Manhattan 6"x6" oil

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This was a tasty manhattan, however I had to taste test about 4 cherries to make sure they would be worthy of putting the drink.   The batch passed the test.   I used Evan Williams which is owned by one of the largest distilleries, Heaven Hill.  This particular bottle is a single barrel vintage bourbon bottled solely from one barrel and hand-selected by Master Distillers Parker and Craig Beam.   Each bottle contains a date telling when it was put in oak and bottled and a serial number of the barrel it came from.  Evan Williams Bourbon is named for Kentucky's first Distiller in 1783 and has won "Whiskey of the Year" five times.

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Chinese umbrella II 14"x18" oil

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We have the model usually for two Fridays in a row and because I treat these as my daily I usually do a different one on the second day.  I decided to work in a larger format and it did not work out totally so I broke a rule of mine and I worked on it at home after the session.   I lightened the shadow area and corrected the chin area.   This came out better.  Hope you like it too. 

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Bourbonball 6"x6" oil

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In the book "The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book" by Joy Perrine and Susan Reigler there is a wonderful award winning BOURBONBALL reciepe (Tuaca Cocktail Contest, 2001, First Place).  This drink is the signature drink for Jack's Lounge here in Louisville KY.   1 part Woodford Reserve, 1 part Tuaca, 1 part dark creme de cacao.   Combine, shake over ice, and strain into a chilled martini glass.  Garnish with a strawberry on the rim.   Well, don't you know this drink evaporated as soon as the painting was done.   This is definitely going to be in my drink collection!

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Bernheim Small Batch 6"x6" oil

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Bernheim is made at Heaven Hill Distilleries in Bardstown Kentucky is the only type of straight whiskey which uses predominately soft winter wheat and is produced in small batches and aged to perfection.  It is not really a bourbon since it is at least 51% wheat.   To qualify as bourbon, the law stipulates that it must be made in the USA, at least 51% and no more than 79% Indian corn and aged for at least two years.   It is a nice smooth tasting whiskey.

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Gentleman Jack 6"x6" oil

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All bourbons are whiskey but not all whiskeys are bourbon.   Gentleman Jack is not a bourbon but a smooth Tennessee Whiskey made by the Jack Daniels distillery which is owned by Brown-Forman.  This whiskey is the only one in the world to be charcoal mellowed twice giving it ultimate smoothness.

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Chinese umbrella 9"x12" oil

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What I painted today in the portrait group was crap! yes, crap, so I wiped it off and am posting what I painted Friday in my Go Figure session.   Now the most exciting thing was the way the light was coming through the umbrella and I painted it with lots of light coming through but that made the face and skin tones pale in comparison.   I remember when I was there the skin tones were the brightest thing on the composition so when I got home I darkened the umbrella and the effect was just what I wanted, the person stands out.   I learned a lesson that day.

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Woodford Reserve II, 6"x6" oil

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A strange thing happened after I painted the first Woodford Reserve painting,  the bourbon in the glass evaporated!   I had to be quick to put the stopper back on the bottle before the same thing happened to the bourbon in there.  Woodford Reserve is an award winning bourbon made by Brown Forman which was founded in 1870 by George Garvin Brown right here in Louisville Ky.

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Bill Fletcher Workshop Day 4, 6"x8" oil

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On the Bill Fletcher workshop day 4 we all worked from the same photo.  There were some wonderful paintings in the group.   Bill Fletcher is a wonderful instructor and I would recommend taking any of his classes if you get the chance.   I am learning lots!

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Woodford Reserve 6"x6" oil

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This is my new series, bourbon. The first one is Woodford Reserve which is made by Brown Forman and is small batch bourbon and one of the oldest and smallest working distillery in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass Region.  I love the classic bottle shape.

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Red Sparkle 9"x12" oil

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Our model today is very talented in acrobatic performance and she is performing tonight and Saturday here in Louisville KY at Headliners in a Vixen show where she is performing with a snake.   Her mother was a science teacher and never afraid of snakes and my mother was not afraid of them either but that did not trickle down to me.   I do not want a snake anywhere near me.   Yikes!

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Fallen Sugar 6"x6" oil

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 I am just going to have to think of something else to paint.   Even I am getting a little tired of this sugar bowl.    I do have a series in mind that I want to start but first have to gather the items. 

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Grape reflections 6"x6" oil

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My favorite parts in this painting are the glow in the grapes.   

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I made it! 6"x8" oil

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I am surprised on how long it took for me to paint this one but I think I finally achieved the look I was going for.    The little grape who could.

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Patti on a chair 8"x10" oil

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I struggled with this one because the surface was very slippery for some reason.   I grabbed it in a hurry this morning and did not realize that is was not my usual panel.   I also wish I had left it at an earlier sketchy stage.   The lesson I learned was that sometimes two hours are better than three.

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Bill Fletcher Workshop Day 3, 4"x6" oil

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This was day 3 in Bill Fletcher's workshop.   On this day I spent about an hour on this little painting and the time was broken up into three parts, 10% on the block in, 80% on the middle and 10% on the final touches which he calls bejeweling but I call it "tarting up".   We start by mixing the four or five color values on the block in and then on the middle of the painting process we mix different colors, some cooler and some warmer but keeping the same value as the block in colors, fiddle with the edges and then on the finish the use of a palette knife comes in handy or you can give it the finger...  or thumb.

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Red napkin 6"x8" oil

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This was hard and I hope it is not overworked.  I wanted to try something different for the backdrop.

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Patti in a tam 9"x12" oil

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This is the efforts of the morning.  

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Coffee with cream 6"x6" oil

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I normally drink black coffee but what a treat it is to have coffee with real cream.  Yum!!  I had to buy it as a prop and I couldn't let it go to waste!

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Cream or sugar 6"x6" oil

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I am working on getting looser in my painting  and it is so hard!  I like the sugar bowl and it's ears.

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Mario with a red scarf 9"x10" oil

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I painted this last Saturday but due to some glitch in my computer or my computer skills I lost my whole iphoto application and could not find the picture.   But figured it out yesterday!!   Not where the iphoto went but where it was saved.   Anyway... here it is.  Mario.  We love Mario!  He is a baritone in the opera and also a dancer.

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Bill Fletcher Workshop Day 2 6"x8" oil

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This was the effort of Day 2 of Bill Fletcher's landscape workshop here in Louisville Ky.  We spent most of our time doing 10 minute block in value studies.   This was the last painting in which we could take about an extra 45 minutes to put in more information.   I like the way it turned out.   

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Sugar Sugar Tea 6"x6" oil

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Getting looser and more painterly is a goal of mine.   This painting was fun to do and it is definitely looser than my usual work.   I hope I can keep it up and not get too picky!

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Inspecting my marbles 6"x6" oil

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It was fun to inspect my marbles today once I finally got them out of my head.   I realized that they needed polishing and dusting off and once that was done they looked as good as new.   After taking a count I realized that some were missing.

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Dried rosebuds in green 6"x6" oil

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I just had to paint this twice.   I thought green brought out the rosy color of the buds.

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Dried Rosebuds 6"x6" oil

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Aren't these dried rosebuds so cute in their asymmetric vase!  I found them at a friend's house and just had to paint them.

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