frogs and people and cats

Drawn with ink, painted with coffee.

A world of coffee

My submitted T-shirt design for threadless.com's coffee theme challenge. Vote now!

coffee mug logo

To add to the Taste Buds store art and design, here is a black and white logo designed for shop coffee mugs and gift bags. Check out more stuff from the Taste Buds tag below.

coffee and pie a la mode

Playing with perspective and dimension. My mother always said don't play with your food, but this was fun.

comfort zone

I swore I wouldn't stress over Christmas this year. As always, I took the route of making gifts instead of spending money. This year was cookies. Batches of cookies that had to be boxed and mailed to other places. I made 2 batches each of Nestle tollhouse cookies, molasses crinkles with sugar icing, and cinnamon snickerdoodles (my personal favorite). Along with this endeavor, I had project deadlines, a nasty cold, a birthday, and a dear, wonderful friend visiting from Dallas for Christmas. So finally when it was all over, I drew this in a wonderfully mellow sense of satisfaction. I stressed, but not as much as Christmases past.

Happy Holidays to all!

Pop-Up Cookies

3D Pop-Up art, painted with gouache in a Moleskine sketchbook. The layers are Bristol Board glued to the page. I had a hankerin' to do another 3d piece, so cookies seemed appropriate for this time of year. No baking required.

Pop-Up Cookies

A close-up image.

morning coffee

Hot coffee on a cold morning in the city.

dining out

When I walked past this window early last Sunday morning, I knew I had to draw this scene. I had my camera, so I walked up to the window and pointed the camera here and there, casually snapping photos of this and that. I thought it would be really odd to have a total stranger taking pictures of you while eating your breakfast. It would have been out of the question to sit there enjoying your meal while a stranger stares at you while doing something with a little black book and a pencil. Anyway, I got the shot and did the drawing without any excessive drama.

Starbucks

Moleskine, brush pen and Photoshop. I've never tried the Iced Lemon Pound Cake from Starbucks, but it looks refreshingly tasty.

the sunrise special

Nothing like a good breakfast to start the day!

downtown diner still life

This drawing started at the Royal Eatery. I then added more elements from restaurants around town.

all nite diner

Lately I've been working on large acrylic paintings. At first I was frustrated because the paintings looked like drawings. Now, this drawing looks sort of like a painting. Maybe I should regularly switch between the two styles to let them flow together.

framed

Random sketches in frames.

coffee buzz

Ink and color pencil.

linocut coffee

This is the first linocut I've done since high school art class. I'm excited about making more. This was created with a rubber stamp block, which is almost the consistency of a pink eraser. Probably not the most concise material but a good practice piece.

Florida coffeeshop

The past week I have been in Florida for the annual visit with my parents. This is a subjective interpretation of my iced coffee at the Cafe Rouelle in Punta Gorda, Florida.

short-legged chair

The porch of Maui Wowee coffeeshop. Wimberley, TX.  The wall is heavily stucco'd.

morning coffee

While taking pictures for this sketch, the waitress kept glancing at me with a very annoyed expression. At first I couldn't figure out why, then I realized she thought I was taking pictures of her. She finally ignored me, probably thought I was some wierdo with an obsession for salt and pepper shakers.

small town diner

No warm hello, or sad goodbye. No judgments or praise. No advice of where to go or how best to get there. No Sunday picnics, no friend, or family. No time clock to rule the day, the week, the year. No hand of a lover, or glimpse of an enemy. Just quietly passing through.