If I’m not painting something that’s living, natural, or organic, I’m more than happy to paint my second favorite subject: reflective surfaces. Call me basic, but wine and tequila bottles often make me feel just as inspired as the natural world, and painting them is just as fun as the consumption. Bottle-painting feels like collegiate-level, still-life bootcamp, but there’s something incredibly studious and rigorous in the study of light bouncing off bottles and casting fluid-lit shadows through a glass. The wet-on-wet paint technique is very different application than my organic subjects and allows me to stretch different muscles and work in various glazes and strategies.