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Related: About this forumStill having trouble getting myself to paint. Here's a cool yard sale bottle l found last week.
I found another one in an antique shop a bit later.
ornotna
(11,070 posts)Pretty bottle.
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Neat painting too!
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)CrispyQ
(38,299 posts)You did a fine job and you nailed the bottle's shadow.
Watercolor?
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)bif
(24,029 posts)You sure nailed the shadows!
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its always tricky to work with light effects on different reflective surfaces. In this case you did a wonderful job of showing light as it bounces off the surface of the bottle AND its effects as it penetrates the object and casts the bottles shadow. You include the way the light going through it highlights the shadow, making the effect Look like a gem.
I also like that you caught the undulating quality of the blown glass in its imperfect surface structure, also showing the effect of light in its dual quality on the subject.
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)with those shards. I knew it would be a fun challenge.
Nitram
(24,614 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)CaptainTruth
(7,233 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)Chellee
(2,213 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)Karadeniz
(23,428 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)LuckyLib
(6,893 posts)has made it tough for me as well. Heard the same from other friends who enjoy their art. It can prove so therapeutic and yet it's tough to sit down to.
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)AZ8theist
(6,497 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)kitchen/living/dining when it gets over 90 out.
AllaN01Bear
(23,066 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)then I come here, and this is what I see!
Nice picture, by the way.
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)pjyonemura
(9 posts)My grandmother had a bottle very similar to that. She hung it on the wall. She had ivy trailing from it. Fond memory. I'm so glad to see something so akin to it.
aleesiazane
(39 posts)It's cool !!
Trueblue Texan
(2,932 posts)I admit it...I am so jealous
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Smart and talented...quite a combo.
Demovictory9
(33,775 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)so you're doing pretty darn good! Keep sharing!
True Blue American
(18,167 posts)For some reason that was a fad back in the 60s, mine broke. I have a blue hand blown swan.
Put in a charity bag, took it back out. Around the same time stores Began selling replicas of Carnival and Depression glass, too.
I have originals that came from family. Replicas I bought.The replicas are antiques now!
True Blue American
(18,167 posts)blue fiddle bottles. I just may buy another one.
https://www.etsy.com/market/blue_fiddle_bottle
Kacy
(32 posts)Im baffled by whats behind the bottle: the accordion tubes flowing from the window and the elbow tube in the corner. Is a fan backed up to the tubes? How does the elbow tube work? If you dont mind
GreenPartyVoter
(73,050 posts)days, but there are a couple of drawbacks. The first is that its large and sitting in front of my window seat. The other, the water tank fills up and we have to wheel it to the back door to drain it. But its still worth it.
The tubes are the exhaust, I think. I honestly dont really know how it works, just that it does.