A Tabasco Sauce Bottle

A Tabasco Sauce Bottle, 5 inches by 7 inches, December 2010
Sold! Private collection, Kansas City, Missouri

As the temperature plunges well below freezing, nothing warms up the heart like hot sauce. I revisited an old subject and learned some new things about all the reflections of surrounding light.

A Tabasco Sauce Bottle

A Tabasco Sauce Bottle, 5" by 7", oil on linen board, October 2008

Private collection, Washington, DC

Today I revisited a Tabasco sauce bottle. I allowed it to remain fairly rough and carved out, just to capture the most basic elements of this iconic package.

A Tabasco Sauce Bottle

A Tabasco sauce bottle, oil on linen board, 5" by 7", February 2008

Private collection, Scotch Plains, NJ

The Tabasco sauce bottle is an old friend of mine. Today I bought three of them (of course) and decided to try out a small study of one before I dive into something more ambitious.