Blue Beautifully Shaped Melted Wine Bottle in Mixed Media Painting

Portrait of Joy

This is a portrait of my second oldest daughter Joy. I think I captured the expression I was hoping for.

Grey Goose Melted Bottles and Landscape Mixed Media

These large and mini Grey Goose bottles were melted and attached to the canvas. I carried the landscape theme from the bottles and painted it on the canvas.

Grey Goose Mixed Media and Landscape

This mixed media painting was donated to an organization who does charity for children. It will be in a silent auction. I hope it does well. The bottle was melted in the kiln and the grapes are glass. I love placing the bottle in with the grapevine and leaves painted with acrylics.

Blue Wine Bottle Amongst The Grapevine Leaves

Every once in a while I make a mistake and through imagination it becomes an unplanned spectacular piece of art. The other day I had my kiln full of glass projects. I had a platter on the bottom shelf which should not have been in the kiln as long as the other pieces. Also, because it was on the bottom shelf I did not see that I was ruining it the longer I kept it in the kiln. Once removed there was a hole in the middle and next to that another hole but a thin layer of clear glass over the smaller hole. Immediately I saw a fish. So I applied my vision to canvas using fabric paint.

Mixed Media, Paint and Glass

Portrait of a Younger Brooke Pouting

I am in the process of up-dating new portrait paintings of my kids and grand children. This one is of my oldest daughter Jane.

Portrait of Jane

This was painted for friends of ours. It was done in acrylics and I also emphasized the gold in Gill's hair with the fabric paint.

Gill and Dave

I painted this of my Grand-daughter when she was about 3 years old. It was done in acrylics and fabric paints.

Peyton Blowing Bubbles

Because of I haven't been spending a lot of time in the studio lately I will be posting some of my old paintings. The weather has been in the tripple digits for weeks here and I have been refraining from using my kiln. I am working on some portraits but not finished with them yet. This painting was inspired by a memory of riding in the back seat of the car with my sister and brothers when I was young and gazing at our shoes. It is a little surrealistic.

Remembering Shoes

Human models are not always there at the time you need them. So, I pointed the camera at my own neck and took the picture. Before I posted it I touched up the scar from my heart surgery and all of the little indiscretions you get as you get older. I think it looks better than the board manikin.

Silver colored soft wire, beads and fused glass

I have not used my kiln for several weeks trying to conserve on energy. We have had triple digit temperatures here in Texas for several weeks. I have been working with what I have already fused or melted. This has been a great time to experiment with some soft colored wire that I purchased. Here are a few whimsical necklaces and one bracelet which I put together this week. These are on a board manikin but if you see them on some one's skin they look really elegant and they are very light weight.

Looped and twisted soft green wire behind fused glass pendant with ribbon chain

Gold twisted soft wire with beads and fused glass framed by metal backing

Purple twisted wire chain with fused glass pendant

Gold soft wire chain with fused pendant

Matching Bracelet

This necklace was made with a plastic coated wire with easy bending and twisting. The pendant is fused glass with dichroic glass and has a metal butterfly attached.

Wire Wrapped Necklace and Fused Glass Pendant

I would consider this necklace as mixed media. It is fused dichroic glass on top of a decorative metal piece and a metal dragon fly over the fused glass. The beads are wooden.

I melted a Kerr Jar too long. It looked more like a fish bowl. It had bubbles in the glass which inspired me to continue with the idea of a fish bowl. After painting the blue water background I added a couple of fish and some coral then glued the glass to the painting. I really like the way it turned out.

It Looks Like A Fish Bowl To Me

The Skinny Girl Margareta bottle melted clear. I painted a skinny girl similar to the one on the bottle behind the glass. The lady drinking the Margareta was painted and is wearing a real bracelet. The bottle stopper is fused glass.

Skinny Girl

The Moselland bottle melted with the winery picture still showing. I thought I would place the bottle in a painted close up view of a vine using glass for the grapes hanging.

Moselland Landmark Series

This Moscato bottle stands a lone with the exception of the fused glass bottle stopper. The date 1887 is still raised. The background is painted with canvas on canvas.

Moscato Bottle

I just love it when the bottles melt with their original ads. To keep to a Texas theme I added some bluebonnets especially since they are in bloom right now.

My Pepsi Moment Melted into the Bluebonnets

My imagination goes wild looking at the fused glass pendants. In this one if you click on the picture you may be able to imagine a duck flying over a lake with trees in the background. The glass is mixed with some dichoric glittery glass and I added some beads to complement the pendant.

Green Fused Glass Necklace on Wooden Model

After vacation, the holidays and having house guests I am finally back in the studio and it feels good.

I am always amazed at the results of melting bottles. I welcome the challenge of what to do with them. The bottle below melted with the design remaining and so elegant that I wanted to present an elegance in the mixed media painting. I emphasized the red and gold colors. The top of the bottle is fused glass. The wine glass is cut glass.

The Builtmore On The Century White Wine Bottle

This bottle was only about 5 1/2 inches tall. I carried the actual image in the bottle to the outside of the canvas painting the sky, mountains, snow and birds. The glasses are cut glass. The canvas is a petite 8" by 10."

Mini Grey Goose