cup#1
Image Size: 211mm x 214mm
Paper Size: 311 x 324mm
I love a cup of fresh coffee first thing. Well no, not first thing, second or third thing, maybe; the cup that wakes is a cup of tea, and the cup that shakes is coffee. I love the taste but don't really like the trembling, hyper-ventilating sense of gloom that spreads slowly upwards. That's when you try to light a cigarette and you know this is the start of another tense, overdrawn day at the office. On the bright side, the drink does concentrate the fear and it was on a day like any other that I thought I should try and vanquish my torment by painting a half empty coffee cup.
I thoroughly enjoyed it; I must have painted about 20 inside a month, had an exhibition which I wittily entitled New Recessionist Pictures and I sold them all. I scanned them all carefully though and have released them as decaffeinated giclée prints, which are going down really well in cafés, bars and offices.
As Will Smith said in Independence Day, "I got to get me one of those!"
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