New Light Through Old Glass

New Light Through Old Glass

Oil on mounted cotton

 $POA

This will be the 1000th post here and this seems a good painting to celebrate that numerical milestone with.

This also happens to be  Black Friday, which in case you live under some kind of cyber rock, you will know is the day of mass sales after Thanks Giving in the US, and I thought to celebrate I would have a sale of my own!

So, from today until the end of december, I am offering a 30% discount on all my unsold Postcardfrompuniho paintings. Hopefully, most of the sold ones have a red dot by them, however, if you want to buy one (without a red dot)and it turns out my book keeping is not up to scratch and it has indeed been sold, then you can have an alternative unsold one for 35% off!

I don't post to this blog very often, and regard this project on hiatus. I have been painting though and have begun work on a series of larger paintings that is all very cloak and dagger at the moment...

I would like to thank everyone for your support and interest over the last few years and wish you all a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year!

Still life With More Bottle

Still life With More Bottles

 Oil and pigment mixed to a coloured mud and applied to the surface of  thin cotton stuck onto some kind of  corrugated plastic stuff

Something by something similar in mm or inches

 $ several pieces of printed paper or circular metal tokens

Well, I wanted to call this one "More Bottle". It's always a challenge coming up with interesting and relevant titles for still lifes (lives?)  I was trying to paint this one with more gusto and vitality, and the saying "more bottle" popped into my head. It's funny how certain phrases resonate from our past and I'm sure I'm familiar with this as a saying, meaning to give something more life and vitality, or "more balls" - a turn of phrase that seems to be in more common usage in these parts.  Anyway, I ran it past "She Who Knows" or "My Better Half",  and she had never heard of it and suggested I "ask Uncle Google". Well, Uncle Google doesn't seem to have heard of the expression either, so I'm wondering if I just made it up myself. The closest I could get was "bottled out" or "not much bottle" from the Phrasefinder:

"...that is, 'useless; no good for anything'. This usage is recorded in a glossary of 19th century street English slang The Swell's Night Guide, 1846:

"She thought it would be no bottle, cos her rival could go in a buster." "

Well it may be archaic, but if you can have not much bottle surely you can have more bottle?

Anyhoo... It gives me something to write about and I have bottled out and called it prosaically "Still life With More Bottles".

Narcisi in Cut Glass Vase

Narcisi in Cut Glass Vase

 Oil on mounted cotton

200x172mm
$300

Two Small Bottles in the Light

Two Small Bottles in the Light

 Oil on linen on MDF

93x152mm

 $150

I was trying to capture some of the iridescent quality that I observe in these clear glass bottles.

Arrangement of Old Bottles With the New IPad

Arrangement of Old Bottles With the New IPad

 Oil on MDF

200x200mm

NFS

It amused me when the first few people to see this painting thought the thumbprints were a "mistake".  I don't think I ever leave unintentional fingerprints on my paintings, while my Ipad is covered with them!  I actually use my fingers to paint with quite a lot. 

This may look like a mirror but if it was the bottles would be reflected. It's actually the photo feature and the mini camera is at the top so the bottles are not in the shot. The lifetime of the battery is about the same time it took to paint the picture.

New Arrangement of Old Bottles

New Arrangement of Old Bottles

200x200mm

 Oil on MDF

NFS

New Arrangement of Old Bottles II

New Arrangement of Old Bottles II

 Oil on  MDF

200 x 200

Two Glass Cherries From Venice

Two Glass Cherries From Venice

 Oil on linen on MDF 

$150
sold

A friend kindly brought back these glass cherries from Venice for me to paint!

Weathered Bottle Neck

Weathered  Bottle Neck

Oil on aluminium

109 x 80mm

NFS

I wanted to try and paint the iridescence of this sand blasted old bottle that I found washed up on Komene beach.   Like most of my work it has no message in it....

I've been experimenting with painting on aluminium panels.  It is perfectly flat and smooth and it is nice to smudge the paint on allowing the metal to glow through.

Trapped Marble

Trapped Marble
Oil on gessoed board

142x195mm
$250

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Empty Glass With Smiley Stickers

Empty Glass With Smiley Stickers
Oil on gessoed board

260x195mm
$500

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