Hey Everyone…. hope your having a great week… Memorial Day weekend is here…… Off on Monday!!!!… I was hoping to have several new works to show you today but I was slightly derailed in completing them this week……. My son graduated from bartending school yesterday and so he was able to show us…. or we were able to taste what he learned while in school….Although my son doesn’t aspire to be a painter, it is clear that he has an artistic gene when it comes to creating a great pour.. .. and yesterday we were the recipients from the budding Picasso and his creative mixology…..now today I think we are all the recipients of a very creative hangover….lol…
People talk about how there’s no flair in bartending but there’s this other type of flair…….It’s so sexual and beautiful the way bartenders stir and shake their drinks and put the ingredients in the shaker. Think about how they raise the bottle high and the stream can be long or short but it’s always beautiful… and then putting the garnish in the glass. It’s personal and intimate and that’s part of what makes it so incredibly special especially in this digital world….. in this post-postmodern age, are bartenders great artisans and are craft cocktails truly an art? I think so….Some say bartenders are artists for the way they slowly pour their homemade grenadine into a glass creating layers of alternating colors. Others insist they’re craftsmen and craftswomen; choosing the label of “mixologist” in recognition of their recipe skills.
Quickly brush aside memories of the 1988 film Cocktail starring Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown as flamboyant bartenders who toss their shakers and themselves with Cirque du Soleil flair….. like a painter you really need to know and study your craft to obtain that level so many aspire to.
The whack of a large wooden mallet onto a block of artisanal ice brings extra drama and sexiness to the art being created and exhibited in front of you.
So without further delay I am heading to the studio to practice and perfect my craft… well as soon as I reach out to my artist bartender and order another shot!…..lol…. have a great week everyone… I should have several works out next week for all of you to see…talk to you soon
……peace
………………james
“remnants of graduation”…lol
