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take one down pass it around- 2019
If you love art and love great Colorado craft beer then you’ll love this book!
Join artist Ceil Horowitz on her adventure through the Rocky Mountains searching out and painting ninety-nine Colorado beers, with accompanying narrative musings in crowded breweries, on railroad tracks and in the ritzy bars of five-star hotels.
Ceil Horowitz embarked on her six and a half year painting adventure in which she traveled by car to paint the first Colorado breweries to ever bottle beer. She visited 30 cities, 3 museums, hops and vegetable fields, two peak summits, a river confluence, a pumpkin farm, drove through dust storms in Cortez, spring snow storms in Boulder, experienced 15-degree-below-zero cold in Eagle, and 95-degree-heat in Windsor.
A bottle of local beer, painted on site at the brewery or where the beer is served, is featured in each painting. Work on a single painting could span from one day to three months. Repeat visits to a brewery, bar, or landscape kept the scene true. In some paintings hours in the mobile studio were transpired looking at and fine tuning the abstract line and color relationships till they reached a harmony with the realistic image.
