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Artist's Inspiration: I love coffee. Don't know how I
could paint without it. These originals are sculptures
as well as paintings. I sculpted the elements in bas
-relief before painting them in pure egg tempera. You
can see my process below.
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These original painting are one of a kind. They have incredible sculpted
texture! The elements in the painting are lightly sculpted in low relief
(about 1/8") before being painted in pure egg tempera made from crushed
stone and egg yolk. The Hershey's kisses are pure silver leaf.
Using crushed stone to make my paint pigments makes the artwork incredibly luminous and alive. An original work encompasses the soul of the artist and it can be felt when you see this work of art in person.
Frames: The paintings are framed in
beautiful museum 3-9/16" wide solid wood frames with
a hand-applied gold leaf finish with red hand rubbed
undertones. They are just beautiful!
you can also buy canvas prints of these paintings
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Here is how Coffee & Kisses was created
I was having my morning coffee
and doodling on a piece of scrap paper and came up
with this sketch. I wanted to focus on a theme of
coffee and kisses as a morning menu. You can take
that as coffee and Hershey's kisses, or coffee
and kisses of love which is a great way to
wake up. I thought it would be fun to have the coffee cup
adorned with different languages of love and kisses,
such as: amore (Italian for love), bisou (French for
kiss), besos (Spanish for kiss), honi (Hawaiian for
kiss), Mau Loa (Hawaiian for forever)
Here I have completed my sculpting for
"Coffee and Kisses" and have begun to paint the
under layers of egg tempera. I always mix my base
colors with white so the paint has something to grab
on too. This is called "tooth" . For my base
colors I am using natural earth ochers from
France.
The two Hershey's Kisses I have sculpted in
bas-relief then gilded them with pure silver leaf
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