This painting is available on an eBay auction for seven days, click here."Morning Coffee" is a 3x7 inch oil on canvas. Due to the season and the short days, there isn't enough daylight to do much painting outside during the week once I get home. It has been years since I painted still lifes. My love of still life developed when I lived in the San Francisco Bay area in the early 1990s. I met many California artists and visited a retrospective show of Wayne Theibold whose still lifes used bright color and complementary color highlights. All used still life among their many other subjects. For me, still life is a pleasant break from my favorite subject -- landscapes. But still life is a great way to also hone the skills of shadow and refection.
The California colors, lavenders and yellows are hinted in this small canvas. This cup and saucer were unusual because the saucer was so much deeper than most; it allowed for the reflections and shadows to have more shape.
Still life has been a staple of many artists for centuries. The Dutch, about 400 years ago took still life to the limits with minute details and their recording of reflections – almost mirror like reflections in fruit and glass.
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