Not being a smoker or coming from a home where anyone smoked, I thought these glass dishes looked like a paint brush. Really I think it was suppose to look like smoke. :) Anyways I'm using them to hold my brushes when I'm only using a few colors. I add water to the bowl part to use as a palette. I don't paint a lot, so I also use these ashtrays to hold little bits of whatever I'm working on. I can't remember where I got them but if I had to guess I would say the thrift stores down in Carmel.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
Not being a smoker or coming from a home where anyone smoked, I thought these glass dishes looked like a paint brush. Really I think it was suppose to look like smoke. :) Anyways I'm using them to hold my brushes when I'm only using a few colors. I add water to the bowl part to use as a palette. I don't paint a lot, so I also use these ashtrays to hold little bits of whatever I'm working on. I can't remember where I got them but if I had to guess I would say the thrift stores down in Carmel.
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