Coffee for Mark (anahata.c) by helanker
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Our always loving and caring Multi artist, Mark has Birthday today. Hurray! :-D
Happy Birthday, dear Mark And many many more Happy Birthdays in the future. I made you coffee for about a week, but Sunday you are gonna have to drink tea :)
Here you go. A Warhol-ish image, I painted traditionally with acrylic on watercolor paper, downloaded a photo of it to my PC and added colors with blendmode in PSP. The first one has the original colors. I wish you a wonderful day with MUCH better weather than we have.(Stormy and rainy) May the sun shine on you and always give you alot of inspiration to do what you love to do the most. Love from Denmark
Helle
Comments (11)
eekdog
Super, and happy birthday Mark. Hope all is well my friend.
Boni
Hmmm. I see a little Andy Warhol influence here. Nice. I hope your friend has a nice birthday as well.
anaber
:))COFFEE:)))!!! I adore! i agree with the 'tea' for him, lol, Helle:) Anyway, i can drink the first; seems more strong for me!!:) And i love this painting and the composition. We 'feel' your strokes! And as always your work seems so 'easy' and i know so well it is not! It's a great dedi for our friend:) and i say Hurray with you, Helle;)and I hope you are having a good day, Mark:)
RodS
This is really lovely, Helle! And what a perfect dedication to an awesome artist and writer - and a great guy! Happy Birthday, Mark!
auntietk
Oh, Helle, this is wonderful! I love what you did with the colors. Some of the cups even seem to have changed their shape a bit, because of the different colors and shadows and light. I am jumping up and down with excitement to see this! Have I told you lately that I think you're brilliant? :)
helanker
Thank you so much Tara. They are different shapes, because I painted 6 cups on one Paper. No copy past. Then I selected 5 cups one by one and made each look different in colors.
kgb224
Outstanding work and birthday dedication Helle. Happy birthday Mark. God bless.
durleybeachbum
FABULOUS! I never much like Warhol but you do it better!
sossy
a perfect and special birthday present, cool and top work 😀
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Wow! Stunning!
anahata.c
I see from your explanation to Tara, how you actually painted 6 cups originally. That explains the variations in strokes, shapes, etc...Helle, I love this! I love it. It is like Warhol, in that he'd take the same basic image, but vary it across a wall. (And a bow to my efforts at imitating him too!) But it's all you, in your choice of colors and those big bold strokes, using acrylic almost like oils---using them in big opaque slabs. I love the strokes, and I love the colors. When I saw "coffee" in the ebot, I thought of the old 2D Forum days, where coffee was a major theme. (Remember? Koosie's memorial had the 'coffee' theme too.) I certainly didn't expect this, though! You framed it with sharply contrasted blue and red. You handle paint very viscerally, it's very tactile, touchable...and you contrast hues 'electrically' here: The right top, the bottom left, etc. The purples in the middle-bottom against those light blue greens; the slate blues of the right bottom against the light blues beneath, and the oranges and greens above, with that deep crimson-red for the coffee. Such electric hues. This is a visual blast.
Thank you Helle. Your words are very dear, as you know; as you are to me and to everyone who knows you. You grace me wonderfully with this, as you do all year round, and you couldn't have given me a better bday gift. Though I only drink coffee 3 or 4 times a year now (because it keeps me up for a month, minimum!), just looking at this will wake me up! An electric and beautiful gift. Thank you so much, Helle! I love it!
blondeblurr
... and who can resist a 'Warhol' ? I know, I couldn't... having said that, yours in comparison to his, is far superior, because you designed each single coffee mug separately, it's an extra effort - therein lies the difference to start with !!! Those rich colours are dynamic and I love the vibrancy you created for Mark - a top score in my books, brilliant Helle !
now someone pass the milk, please... LOL