Painted with Wine

What is Wine Art?
Everyone knows that you drink wine but
did you know you can paint with it?
Niagara based artist, Melissa Proudlock created her first wine painting back in the Fall of 2013. She was a full-time graphic designer for a local winery and while creating a wine label the idea of using wine as paint was born.
Using wine as an artistic material is unique, unpredictable, and impossible to control. Through trial and error, she has perfected her craft and discovered that wine provides a variety of colours. The process of preparing the wine to use as the medium has also been perfected (aging, reducing, and adding lees which is sediment found at the bottom of wine tanks). The wine needs to be the right consistency before she can create her artwork.
She takes great care in preserving her wine paintings by adding many layers of archival spray and sealing them in archival packaging or framing. This reduces the aging
process of the painting where the colours have a slight
colour transition from red and purple towards sepia hues.
She paints everything from portraits, animals, landscapes, musicians to fan-art and welcomes commissions. Her artwork has been showcased around the Niagara Region and she has been recognized around the world.
Wine Art is another form of
expressing your love of wine.
View more of Melissa’s wine paintings at:
www.paintedwithwine.com