Monday, July 7, 2008

longneck app 3 1/2 x ll oil on wood panel


What can be said about beer bottles? This bottle intrigued me because of the light showing through it, and I think that it is the effect of light on surfaces that makes a painting come alive. I 've read that we have been using beer bottles for over three hundred years. Different societies developed brewing, unbeknownst to one another, but everyone seemed to do it. They called it liquid bread. Beer bottles were simply developed for ease of transporting and the brownish color helped impede the effect of light on the beer. Now most beer is sold in cans and the manufacturers tell us that taste is not affected by the metal. Sure.

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