Your Bartender

Your Bartender

A series of original portraits painted inside repurposed wooden drawers and wine boxes, each box with a portrait of Your Bartender. Each box its own little curio cabinet, incorporating various relics and keepsakes, including vintage stamps, old playing cards, love letters, postcards, dice, found objects, artifacts and heirlooms, my great-grandmother’s shoe buckle, pennies, and things we forgot we had. Not to mention a cocktail shaker and a couple of glasses. Your Bartender is here to serve.

Girl Bar

Front & Side view, Girl Bar. Girls on every side. It’s GIRL BAR.
Back & Interior, Girl Bar. Drawbridge-style door opens to reveal a cocktail tray and two small cocktail shakers. Natural branch support, vintage record, vintage paper-doll gowns and a vintage shoe to hold your bitters.
Interior Detail, Girl Bar. Vintage barware included, dollhouse furniture subject to change on a whim. Plenty of room for your own bottles.
Back & Side view, Girl Bar
39 ½” H X 34” W X 12”D Girl Bar. Front. An all-sided standing bar, featuring original paintings on all sides and the interior.

Standing Boulevardier

40” H X 24” W X 10” D Standing Boulevardier, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor
Original painting in a vintage wooden drawer, with tapered legs and a patterned metal screen. Acrylic and mixed media. Interior features portrait of the Boulevardier, vintage playing cards, wooden dollhouse table and chair, working dollhouse chandelier, paintings on both interior sides, a cocktail shaker, and room for your own bottles.
Interior Detail, Standing Boulevardier. Antique stamps, vintage playing cards, dollhouse furniture and tiny chessboard.
Interior and Top, detail
Detail, Standing Boulevardier

Lord Baltimore

13” H X 19 ½” W X 5” D Original painting in a vintage wooden drawer. Acrylic and mixed media. Tiled with copper pennies, vintage coasters, vintage Lord Baltimore playing cards, vintage booklet, cocktail shaker, vintage postcards, tiny original portrait inside an antique rhinestone buckle. Cocktail strainer and a vintage postcard with a cocktail recipe.
Detail, Lord Baltimore. Martini, antique stamps, and love lost.

Vesper

18” H X 24” W X 4” D
Original painting inside a vintage wooden drawer, with mixed media, vintage paper dolls, a cocktail shaker, vintage postcards
Vesper detail, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor

Dry Martini

17 ½ “ H X 17” W X 7” D A Dry Martini, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor. Original paintings inside a wooden wine box and wooden cigar box, with child’s abacus, vintage aperitif glasses, dollhouse piano, playing cards, antique postcards and stamps.
Detail Dry Martini, upper cigar box compartment for glasses or playing cards.
Detail Dry Martini, martini recipe and portrait.
Side detail, Dry Martini
Interior detail, Dry Martini

Cocktail Chimp

SOLD! 19 ½ “ H X 17 ½” W X 6”D Cocktail Chimp, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor Original painting in a vintage wooden drawer. Acrylic and mixed media, with talavera tile, a cocktail shaker and a vintage Hardy Boys’ book with a secret compartment.
Detail of Cocktail Chimp.
Detail from Cocktail Chimp. (Sold)
Your Bartender.

Mr. Gibson & The Memory Bird

SOLD Mr. Gibson and the Memory Bird, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor. An original painting in acrylic inside a vintage drawer with odds-and-ends and heirlooms.
Detail, Mr. Gibson and the Memory Bird
Detail, Mr. Gibson and the Memory Bird

Manhattan Fez

15 ½” H X30” W X 5 ½” D Original painting in a vintage wooden drawer. Acrylic and mixed media. Vintage baby doll arm, antique stamps and playing cards, hand painted cigar box with antique postcards, odds and ends.
Vintage baby doll arm with vintage dental appliance and French keychain.
Vintage cocktail coasters, beaded moroccan shoe ashtray.
Love and memories, in a cigar box.

A Poet’s Dream

15” H X 32” W X 7” D A Poet’s Dream, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor. Original painting inside a vintage wooden drawer. Acrylic and mixed media, antique stamps, vintage postcards, vintage record, cocktail shaker.
A Poet’s Dream, detail. Dollhouse chair with brass & silver wire, dice.
A Poet’s Dream, detail. Vintage wooden dice, antique stamps, silver medal.
A Poet’s Dream, detail. Cigar box with cocktail shaker, vintage French postcard, vintage booklet, vintage cocktail coasters.

Absinthe

9 ½” H X 18” W X 6” D Absinthe, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor. Original painting inside a vintage drawer. Acrylic and mixed media, with vintage odds and ends, and an absinthe spoon.
Absinthe, detail. Flying vintage birthday ballerinas.
Absinthe, detail. Your Absinthe dream.
Absinthe, detail.

Classic Martini

14 ½” H X 9” W X 9” D Classic Martini. Original painting inside a vintage wood drawer. Martini portraits on interior walls, cocktail shaker included.
Classic Martini, detail.

The Boulevardier

16” H X 24” W X 7” D The Boulevardier, from the series Your Bartender by Christie Mellor. Original painting in a vintage wooden drawer. Acrylic and mixed media, vintage wooden box, vintage tin tray.
The Boulevardier, detail.
The Boulevardier, side detail. Woman with umbrella, hanging vintage costume jewelry and vintage silver dental appliance.
The Boulevardier, detail. Antique stamps, vintage postcards.

Our Lady of the Dry Martini

SOLD Our Lady of the Dry Martini, original painting in a vintage wooden drawer.
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD

We’ll Take Manhattan

SOLD
SOLD
SOLD

Negroni

SOLD

Bitter

Work in Progress…
…with a place to hold your bitters.