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Wine Bottle Painting

On Sunday, my wife and sister had their first craft group meeting. I had some time to work so decided to paint some wine bottles, as we had been talking about crafts all week. We had also joked about a series of fish paintings with different food choices. Here it is, step by step...

Supplies

You can hold the corks and turn the bottle to paint the entire area at once. Acrylic first coat dried in about 5 minutes. Then I added the grass and poured myself a glass of wine

 Finished front view- "Fish With Drumstick"

CHOMP!

The bottles give you 2 sides to work with so you can go wild!

The End

DIY Easel

Now that I have a studio, I needed a sturdy easel. They usually cost $200-$300 and up but I made this for $5. (I actually saw this setup at my uncle UJ's friend's house out in San Fran) I got 2 studs at Home Depot cut so they can lean against the wall.

Then I drilled a couple holes and added these bolts.

 Now I can adjust to standing or sitting height, and the to the width of the canvas as well. 

Studio Space

As you may know, we recently moved back to Lansing. Not only does our new house have a craft room in the basement, there is a loft above our bedroom for a studio. Finally! Here is the view and the (almost) finished space.

Fish with Ham

I decided to do a painting for fun last week in my new studio space (more on that to follow). I did a sketch at the CCL and when I had a free morning, put on some Sublime and got to it. I realized I had never done that before- probably because canvases have been hard to come. Also, I haven't had a space to paint and so all the time I spent working was on "serious" pieces.  Here it it...

View from REO Town of The Three Sisters

Here is a piece I did last fall for the "Showdown in REOTown." It was cool because a couple of my boys (Slim Chili and Stoneface Kermiet) were there, but the "judging" and "contest" were incredibly lame.