“A glass of moonshine.”
During the long, dark and cold winter nights you need something to warm up with. An elegant choice would be a glass of strong alcoholic beverage. I think that a good choice could be a nice moonshine. Like the one I have, aged in a wooden barrel, from which it got the lovely colour.
Anyway ... I was enjoying a glass and looking at the light hitting it and playing with it I thought it might make a nice painting. So, I have chosen it as a weekly painting. As I was doing the set up, I thought the glass was looking to lonely, so I added a cork stopper from a bottle of wine. I set up the light and I had to adjust it few times before I was happy with it.
I painted it using my usual palette, to which I added cadmium yellow deep and yellow ochre. I painted it wet on wet, mainly, but I did the initial drawing and colour blocking couple of days before I actually had time to work on it, do the first layer was pretty much dry. I used the sight size method to do the drawing. I used some liquin, as a medium, for the darkest part of the painting, otherwise it becomes to dull.
So, here it is:
“A glass of moonshine.”
Oil on linen.
18 X 24cm (7” X 10”)
