Happy Thirsty Thursday on National Beer Day! And, today is also my birthday! April 7 was a great day in 1933 when beer became legal again after 13 years. Home brewing didn’t become legal until 1978, which is ironic, because home brewing is essentially the way beer was invented some 7,000 years ago.
This week’s Thirsty Thursday beer painting is a parody of Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. This was the first of 36 paintings of Mt. Fuji that Hokusai produced from 1830-1833. In my version I portrayed the boats as glasses of pilsner floating in a wave of dark beer I presume to be porter, or stout. This wave of beer reminds me of a carboy incident I had while home brewing back in 2006. Little to say, I have new bamboo flooring on the living room side of my kitchen counter as a result. I call my version of this painting The Great Beer Wave.
I hope you spend National Beer Day home brewing, or at least pause from your busy schedule for a needed beer break! In celebration of National Beer Day coinciding with Thirsty Thursday and my birthday I’m having a 15% sale at my Etsy shop RealArtIsBetter. Use coupon code BEER2016. Valid today only!
The original oil painting sold. You can purchase limited-edition prints, or order a custom beer painting at my Etsy shop RealArtIsBetter.
Thirsty Thursday Beer Painting #67 by Scott Clendaniel. April 7, 2016. The Great Beer Wave. 14″x11″, oil on panel.
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