"True-Blue"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Here it is the last, the number ten of the Myra Coffee Cup series. This cup has the handle on the right side, I guess I've been drinking from this cup! I'm right handed!

Sorry I haven't taken the time to post this sooner, but as we all know, life happens! Yes, I have been busy with other stuff and now I want to take this time to tell you that I'm gonna take about two weeks away (maybe) and let some more life happen.

Let me say... "Happy Thanksgiving!" and I will be back in touch around December 8th or so!

-jM

"Ahhh Nutcracker" revisited -Sold

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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The season is here! Just around the corner is Thanksgiving in the USA and then Christmas!

A show at the StutzArtSpace is opening the first Friday in December and it is titled "Small Treasures".
I thought this little painting would be perfect for the show! I did add a few touches of highlights to spruce it up, so that indeed makes it a new updated painting!

On another seasonal note, how about snow! Below are three of my young artists from last Saturday's Cookies and Canvas painting class showing me their masterpieces!

Young Painters from Cookies & Canvas.

Silly me, I forgot to get their names!! Oh, they had a great time.  Oh, so did I!
Did I tell you they have the best Auntie in the world? She brought them to Cookies & Canvas!

-jM

"It's What's Inside That Counts"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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It's What's Inside That Counts... yes, usually. Maybe I need a coffee now. I know it's late, but...
it just sounds good to me right now!

Mmm, mmm good!

Have a beautiful weekend everyone!

-jM

PS: This is the ninth of the Myra coffee cups!

"The Yellow Cup"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Thee Yellow Cup.... I had to google the title to make sure I had not used this title before. "That Yellow Cup" came up, so I'm okay! So did just "Yellow Cup", thank goodness! Here we are then "The Yellow Cup"!

I must say thank you to Bonnie Fillenwarth my art buddy across the court yard for helping find the problem I was having with this one. You know, sometimes an extra pair of eyes come in handy! I think the painting is better now! I know, it had to do with the handle.... but it wasn't the handle, it was the side of the cup!!

Shoot.... Hopefully I'll have a cup tomorrow! It's Friday tomorrow, I'll need to have fun!

Gotta love a full moon! Did you notice?

-jM

"4AM Coffee"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Now this is some black coffee! At 4AM through the sleepy red eyes, does a white coffee cup look red?

Maybe it just looks red because the eyes are not open yet!

Good Morning!

-jM

"4PM Coffee"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Coffee or tea? Maybe 4PM coffee needs to be a light coffee, not as strong as what I would need in the morning at 6AM or 4AM.....

This is like number 3 of the Myra's coffee cup sub-series, some where in the shuffle I missed it. Yesterday about 4PM I discovered that I hadn't posted this one, thus the title!

-jM

"Pink Cup"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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This is Joanie's cup! I think Joanie is right handed or the cup is turned so the heart is just right! All that makes this cup just right!

Below is the photo that Joanie sent to me. I think I'll put more hearts in the cups! This is too cool!

Joanie's original cup

More tomorrow!

-jM

"From Deep Within"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Ooo, it's a heart in the bottom of this cup! Thanks Joanie!

Joanie Springer sent a photo of a cup that her daughter gave to her. This painting is a combination of Myra's cup and Joanie's cup. I have a Joanie cup on the painting table, just about finished, at least the first one of the Joanie cups!

Am I having too much fun with these cups?
Just enough! Like I tell my young artist painters, "have fun when you paint!"

Here is a group of my young painters! Yes, they are having fun!

-jM

"Plum Dive"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Happy Friday! Looking at this painting, I'm thinking, it's hard to believe this is a result from doing one little painting inspired by the "Last Cup of Coffee" icon!

Thanks again Myra!

Transformers!

-jM

"More Coffee for Myra"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Another Myra coffee cup. Maybe this is orange coffee. Do they make orange coffee?

Myra said she found this cup in her cupboard, it says "#1 Mom"... can you see it? Use your imagination now...

I'm going to let this little oil painting dry a bit more then tomorrow, I may add a glaze to get more of a shadow effect on the front side of this cup.

The handle is on the left side of this painting. Myra, are you left handed? I've noticed when I set up my coffee sup models the handle tends to be on the right, I'm right handed. Inquiring minds.....

-jM

"Myra's Coffee"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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It's Monday. This is the first of ten, yes, ten of Myra's coffee cups. This one I did looking at a small printed out copy of Last Cup of Coffee's icon place holder doodad. As I sit here at my computer, I noticed that I printed a bigger copy and I can read the little cup napkin better. Looks like the next one will definitely have a slightly different look, of course.

After I had this little painting about half finished, I distracted myself by taking out 9 more 6"x6" panels and drawing the same view of this coffee cup on the other nine. At about number 5, I thought, maybe I'll just do six total, repetition, repetition for automation. After the sixth was drawn, I decided that I started with a goal of ten, so continue to ten, so ten I did.

I also changed the Christmas Coffee painting a little bit... here is the revised version...

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

Looking forward to Tuesday!

-jM

"Christmas Coffee"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Mmmm.... I imagine this coffee has peppermint in it! Mmmm... candy canes.

Okay, it's okay, to be thinking about Christmas. Everyone likes Christmas... cookies! Oh, cookies, yeah.

Here's to cookies!

-jM

"Really?"

8"x6" oil on canvas panel

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"Really?" This is what the vase is asking the Gerber Daisy.

Gotta work on the lighting of my set-up's. Just felt like a struggle tonight, don't know if it's just a phase or what. Gonna work through it, hope you all can tolerate me! Listening to me complain... I should apologize right now. Sorry, we can get through this..... maybe it's the weather, yes, that's it! I'll blame the weather.
Whew, I feel better all ready!!

This is cup number 23! Thanks Myra for giving me a count. I didn't count the little drawing on paper, but I did count the pieces I did on book pages. I'm thinking about tearing them out of the book. I've had a couple stick together and well, now they look a little different than what I posted this summer... oops.

Okay, I'll try again tomorrow. I think since tomorrow is Friday, I'm gonna have to go crazy, this tighter painting is making me tense!

-jM

"Martha's BB Cup"

6"x6" oil on canvas panel

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Not sure I'm getting the dramatic effect I'm looking for in these last few paintings. So! I'm gonna keep trying!

How many cups is this Myra? I'll count them and come back with a number tomorrow!

-jM

"Mushroom's Cup"

8"x6" acrylic on paper mounted to canvas

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What color cup would a yellow mushroom have? Randy said red, so red it is here!

This little painting I did for the "Shoot and Paint Art Challenge" for October. It's such a cute crazy looking mushroom, it was hard to resist! Of course, I added a cup!

A still life of a cup Martha lent to me, tomorrow.... what is "BB" again? It's on the bottom of the cup.

I think I'll stop and get a fresh flower to go with the cup before I get to the studio in the morning too!

Good night!

-jM