Coffee, Pot and Cup. Giclee fine art print.
"Coffee". Middle Eastern coffee is something to behold if you haven't tried it. It's very finely ground, gets boiled and served, usually sweetened, in dinky little china-style cups. It's powerful, but the caffeine and sugar don't hit like with regular varieties.
This painting required quite a bit of detail work on the cup and saucers, but it was the pot that I enjoyed, since it had more scope for "painting the light" with bolder, flat brushstrokes of reflected light. Brass and gold are tricky to paint, relying more on creating an illusion of their bright colours than on the colours themselves - they have a surprising amount of brown and green in them.
The background emerged out of a dark, muddy mass of brown and navy that I wasn't happy with at all. I decided to "accessorize" it by reflecting the subtle blues and reds in the white of the cup, and the result is a sort of hip, modern, distressed concrete look that I quite like.
Oil original October 2021; alla prima oil on MDF panel 53cm x 36cm / 21"x14".
"Coffee". Middle Eastern coffee is something to behold if you haven't tried it. It's very finely ground, gets boiled and served, usually sweetened, in dinky little china-style cups. It's powerful, but the caffeine and sugar don't hit like with regular varieties.
This painting required quite a bit of detail work on the cup and saucers, but it was the pot that I enjoyed, since it had more scope for "painting the light" with bolder, flat brushstrokes of reflected light. Brass and gold are tricky to paint, relying more on creating an illusion of their bright colours than on the colours themselves - they have a surprising amount of brown and green in them.
The background emerged out of a dark, muddy mass of brown and navy that I wasn't happy with at all. I decided to "accessorize" it by reflecting the subtle blues and reds in the white of the cup, and the result is a sort of hip, modern, distressed concrete look that I quite like.
Oil original October 2021; alla prima oil on MDF panel 53cm x 36cm / 21"x14".
"Coffee". Middle Eastern coffee is something to behold if you haven't tried it. It's very finely ground, gets boiled and served, usually sweetened, in dinky little china-style cups. It's powerful, but the caffeine and sugar don't hit like with regular varieties.
This painting required quite a bit of detail work on the cup and saucers, but it was the pot that I enjoyed, since it had more scope for "painting the light" with bolder, flat brushstrokes of reflected light. Brass and gold are tricky to paint, relying more on creating an illusion of their bright colours than on the colours themselves - they have a surprising amount of brown and green in them.
The background emerged out of a dark, muddy mass of brown and navy that I wasn't happy with at all. I decided to "accessorize" it by reflecting the subtle blues and reds in the white of the cup, and the result is a sort of hip, modern, distressed concrete look that I quite like.
Oil original October 2021; alla prima oil on MDF panel 53cm x 36cm / 21"x14".
Prints are scaled to various standard US frame sizes, e.g. 10x8, 14x11, 20x16, 28x20, and 36x24 (all inches). Square print sizes are 12x12, 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, 32x32, and 36x36 (all inches). The print itself is smaller than this to include a border of 1 to 2 inches depending on the print size. When the original is an odd proportion, we fill the frame with the image until the first border is touched. In other words, you might have wider vertical or horizontal borders. When the horizontal borders are wider, we might move the image up a little so that the lower one is wider than the upper, this is a popular setting.
All of my prints are professionally rendered to archival standards on 310gm, 100% cotton paper from Germany, with a gently textured surface. This paper is free of optical brightening agents (OBAs). They are printed in the latest generation Epson Ultrachrome archival pigment inks. This is the ink-set that started the pigment print revolution and twenty years on continues to be the leader in terms of lightfastness, colour gamut and D-max. I inspect each print personally to ensure print quality. Each print is titled, signed and dated by me, and will be packed in glassine paper and cardboard tubing for sizes 36x24 to 20x16, or glassine with cardboard protection for the smaller sizes 14x11 and 10x8.
This is the original setup for this painting.