Post #517063 by THOR's on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 1:45 PM

Aloha!

Well... The time has come!! I was commissioned some time ago by some TRULY wonderful people to create a new addition to my "Drink making Machines" series based on one of their personal favorites..A Margarita. I am just now getting to this and getting excited!! OK...so the challenge in my mind was same as you all are likely to be thinking. How to capture the "spirit"(no pun)of why this frozen concoction(I had to say it...dint I?)is close to the heart of many moments of tropical and exotic escapades. My clients have become my friends now who challenged me with this and I hope to create something that hits several key goals and makes them proud owners too.

First, I need to choose a setting for a margarita's character. Almost immediately, we know that a certain celebrity song writer/performer has written a "Parrot-y" on this drink. We have to recognize this..while at the same time, not make this drink's fame because of this only. So..I think I might elude to these things and let the viewer see what they want to. Margaritas, for me were never associated with anything outside of the South of the Boarder flavor...be it more near the beaches there or not. So.... resort places on the South East coast are not really the birth of the Margarita in my mind or what I think of, so..bear with me, I am thinking out loud and sharing here.

For the next week or so, I am going to do as I always do before I paint. I am going to draw and doodle very rough little ideas and play with parts of ideas that are entertaining possibilities. They are just ideas..not fitting together yet. They may even evolve or morph... In the end, these ideas may or may not make it to the end result. The drawing will be refined and drawn out more carefully and accurately. Then of course..it's onto canvas and painted. Here we go.

I know it's fun to watch as an artist ponders and mixes up ideas and notions and I thought this was a good one to post here for a few weeks. Feel free to interject if ya want. I welcome your thoughts and ideas. In the end, It's me that has to put this together and knock out an image that is believable....refined and complete that my friends and collectors will hang in a spot in their home..and I want them to own a thing that never stops bringing them to a place they can look at..and sip a lil'bit of frosty Latin intoxica inside the painting's very own "boarders".

Enjoy! ~THOR

The following are sketch ideas from my sketchbook..... No title for this painting or layout for the machine exists yet.....