"Clouds in My Coffee" -Sold

24" x 30" mixed media on canvas

What day is it anyway? Yes, there are "Clouds in My Coffee" for sure! Here we have number 88 and it's a larger painting at 24 inches by 30 inches. I know that large is relative, so relative to the itty bitty's (2"x3"), this is large!

I was telling Lisa Graham yesterday, that I have nine coffee cup paintings on my painting table, the floor and the easel. I was wrong, I had ten! Today I have nine, so where does that leave me....  closer to 100!

Hang on tight, they're coming along.... coming along!

-jM

"Three Cups" -Sold

11"x15" aquamedia on paper

These babies are ready for some hot coffee! And so am I! Care to join me?

Coffee cup painting number 70 and number 71 is in progress!

Good morning!

-jM

64,65,66 and "Studio Joe"

Three acrylic paintings on 7"x15" paper soon to be seperated!

I know I shouldn't do it, but I'm doing it anyway. Here are three of the four coffee cup paintings I finished today. Oh, I will post number 67 tomorrow, or should I now?  Oh, I can't resist, here is "Studio Joe".

7"x5" mixed media on paper

The windows in the background are what the windows look like in my studio, maybe not quite as clean...

Sometimes, I read art books over coffee in my studio for inspiration. You know like Van Gogh and who else can I come up with? Hmmm.... uh oh, I'm thinking again! Watch out!

-jM

"Coffee Line-Up"

7"x5" Mixed media on paper

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Number 59, line 'em up! We're going to have a coffee party and browse over our favorite art books!
Here is a cup of coffee for Myra, for John (my friend that is going to pick up the art books) and me!

Did I say yesterday that I was painting three at a time? Here is an image of the three still stuck together, soon to be separated and put into a nice presentation mat!

See you tomorrow!

-jM

"Two For Me" -Sold

3"x3" Mixed media on itty bitty canvas

Earlier this month, I believe Angela ask for two lumps of sugar in her coffee...
okay, I got a little carried away... these lumps are huge!!

Number 48...

-jM

"Three Different"

8"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Here we go three cups. Three different but yet, the same. I may tweak this one a little more too, I'm still looking at it... a few touches here and there....

It certainly does help to look at these as a photo, I get a little different perspective on life, I mean the cups!

Bonnie, here are three cups so far, I know we will need more. I'll see what I can find tomorrow!

-jM

Are you ready for this?

6" x 8" Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas

Okay, I may have made a mistake... or maybe not. The above image is the final piece with a bit of work added... some dry pastels, more gouache, ummm, black india ink pen.

Ink washed off

Here is the painting with the ink washed off and no additional work. It seems to me the whole piece got a little dull on me, so I thought I would try again!

Red Cup before ink

Here is a quick study of just the cup, but I used solid red for the cup. I laid the gouache on really, really heavy this time and hopefully I let it dry enough before I poured on some india ink.

Red Cup with india ink

Okay, not a great photo again, but I do hope you get the idea. Rather than brushing the ink on, I poured it on then kind of allowed it to flow around by tipping the paper different directions. I also left some areas free of ink. Control areas I guess they would be in the experimental (scientific) world. In the first picture, the white line that indicates the horizon or table top has no paint on it. It is the white of the gessoed paper. I wanted to see if the ink would make a black line out of the un-gouached places.

Okay, tomorrow I will wash the gouache! 

Two experiments here: 1. Will laying down the gouache thicker allow the painting to come out brighter, and 2. Will the un-gouached areas become ink black?

Tomorrow....

-jM