This is a miniature 3"x5" Whiskey Painting. Whiskey Painters of America, of which I am a member, is a nationwide group of watercolor painters who use or other varieties of distilled beverages as a medium instead of the traditional water. The origin of this unique group dates back to the late 1950s in Akron, Ohio, with a small collection of professional artists from the Akron Society of Artists. The founder, Joe Ferriot, was an artist and the owner of a plastics company. While traveling for his firm, he often painted watercolor miniatures, designing a pocket-sized palette out of an aspirin box to hold his paint, and creating screw-together brushes that fit neatly inside this small box, which could easily slip into his shirt pocket.
Learn more here about Whiskey painters.
https://whiskeypainters.org/
- Subject Matter: landscape
- Collections: Landscapes, Watercolor painting, Whiskey Painters of America