Let’s have a glass of wine!
…as we were sipping wine while having dinner at Cactus Club this past summer, I was asked if I would paint a ‘wine still life’ for our good friends! REALLY?! For some reason I was a little embarrassed as I felt my cheeks turn the same colour as the wine!
Five months later here we are - I just finished
the painting for them. There seems to be a ‘dinner out at restaurant’ theme
behind this commission. We made plans a few weeks back for Dine Out Vancouver
and they had no problem with me presenting it to them after dinner in the
parking lot of the Boathouse Restaurant!
I had both fun and challenges with this
painting. The most important part of the painting was “it had to show a bottle
of BORDEAUX”. To keep the story short, the label was really challenging to
create due to the fine printing and I learned a lot about the various tools
available for such detailed work. Many of them are not that great but painting
future wine labels should be a breeze!!!
The “clients” were very pleased with the
outcome. When they got home, they placed the piece on their mantel and both
enjoyed drinking a glass of wine – while admiring their painting of wine!
À la vôtre! ~ Sharka
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