Museum Update
For the first time in 2025 I’ve updated the world-famous Museum of Bottle Drawings, the only known museum dedicated solely to drawings of bottles, vases, and related vessels. As of today, the museum collects and displays 92 artworks, totalling 394 bottles, vases, or vessels. That’s an average of 4,2 vessels per artwork.
The museum suffers a bit from my tendency to keep 3-5 active sketchbooks at any one time. I usually love working like this. A sketchbook is, after all, just a sketchbook. It’s not its own work of art and exists for the purpose of a) working out ideas for “proper work”, or b) keeping my hands busy while watching a show with my wife. When I alternate between sketchbooks I get to find older drawings I’d forgotten about, and maybe rediscover an idea that I want to play with today. Or I’ll remember a trip. As bad as my memory is in general, I’m really good at remembering locations of observational or plein air sketches.
But when I want to update the museum, it’s a real pain. I have to rummage through multiple drawers and cupboards looking for the sketchbooks I might have used recently. Then I have to remember whether or not I’ve already photographed or scanned the drawings. There’s a reason I’m an artist not a conservator.
New to the museum today are seven sketches, and I know about at least two more that can be added. Nine drawings is not very much for being five months into the year - but I’ve been drawing a lot of sigils and symbols lately, and doing a fair bit of abstract sketching. It’s not surprising that the bottles, et al have gone to the back burner, but I really should get back to it.
Pictured above are three of the seven, find the rest here. And let me know which ones are your favorites.