Espresso Pot – Still Life Daily Painting – Karen Winters
Java Jolt
5 x 7 inches oil on canvas panel
There was a time when I could drink espresso any time, day or evening after dinner and fall asleep like a baby. Well, a sleepy baby, not a cranky crying baby. My espresso drinking days may be over unless I can find a decaf drip. I would imagine Starbucks has something of that sort, too. Christmas Blend ground for expresso sounds pretty darn good, in fact. With steamed skim milk and a dash of hazelnut flavored syrup. Yum.
Anyway, this is our old espresso pot which has seen better days, but has been well loved and used. It hung by the handle off of a pot rack and hit the floor once, but it kept working just fine although a bit misshapen. This little painting started out as a study to see how i could render the different facets of the aluminum vessel using an Anders Zorn palette of white, black, yellow ochre and cadmium red.
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Really beautiful.
Lovely Karen – it has that wonderful burnished aluminium look to it and looks well loved and used. The reflections are so subtle but work so well
This is wonderful!
This is wonderful. I really like the way you worked the limited palette.
Beautiful painting. You’ve given your old coffee pot a new life!
LOVE it!!! what a beautiful rendering of the surfaces.
Hi Karen. This is a lovely soft painting of your old pot. It inspired me to post a photo on Facebook of my pot which I’ve never used. I took the pic for a lesson in a photography class (online class of course). Now if I could only learn to paint!
This is really outstanding, Karen! The yellow ochre and cadmium red accents are perfect!
I think this is wonderful – you have captured the pot beautifully.
Good ole Pot Full of Memories. As Alissa and the rest have said, it has been handled and loved into a burnished patina.
I am fascinated by limited palettes and will now have to try this one.
annie
very beautifully painted Karen! love this palette : )
I can tell it is well loved
Great picture Karen!
Great job with the colors and light. I ordered a no fat, decaf, latte in Española, New Mexico, a few years ago and the clerk said, “Oh, you want an AWT.” “What?” I asked. Clerk, “A Waste of Time!” Sigh……
Karen, Your coffee pot is beautifully done. it is lovely to see the challenge done in oils.
lots of love from susan in australia
Outstanding! Success with the limited palette. Congrats.
Simply love the way you apply colors onto everything. You never fail to amaze your crowd Karen.
Fantastic, Perfect!! You do not paint many “items” but obviously you capture them with great beauty!
This is absolutely stunning! I painted the same pot, and know about the challenges involved. It’s in my post at http://danscanvas.blogspot.com/2009/10/coffee-miami-style.html if you are interested. Watercolor, and a very different approach. In oil it is stunning!
This is quite simply, outstanding. Beautiful work.
This is a lovely study, I really admire the way you have captured the shine of the metal! I am thinking of painting my take on this EDM tomorrow if I get time, I’m a Yorkshire girl in England so it has to be a pot of tea!!
Amazing how time changes us in small (and large) ways isn’t it??
Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Great work!