Olive Oil and Some Kind of Jam or Jelly

4"x6" oil on masonite panel ••• This painting is proof that my pilfering—some may call it "scrounging"—ways may have filtered down to my offspring. • The empty green olive oil bottle was acquired at CostCo by Spawn Number One. • For the uninitiated, CostCo is a chain of "scary big" warehouse stores. Around 10:30 to 11:00 AM an army of hairnet-donning elves come out from the shadows and set up displays from which they offer free samples of food and skin care products. • To nip the onslaught of critical emails in the bud, let me say, up front: We do not let the Spawn wander around unsupervised at our local Costco eating free food samples. If you do that, you end up with a 500 lb. child with an abnormal addiction to spinach cheese raviolis and enviously supple skin. • Getting back to the point: So, Spawn Number One sees one of the elves discarding this beautiful olive oil bottle and snags it for his old man to paint. What a kid! (I worry just a bit when he shows up with empty tequila bottles, but still... What a kid!)

Posted December 9, 2015

sold • private collection los angeles, ca