Cooling the Cup by JimRode

The Art

This image is homage to the traveler who is often the documentarian of culture and life, I present "Cooling the Cup".

Where is the birthplace of coffee? Some say Yemen, some Ethiopia. I just know there is a universal desire to posses it, steep it, drink it. I know you feel the same way.

Art Details

This image, cropped slightly to 8x12 on watercolor paper.

I'm working with applying a wet ink media to watercolor paper. I like watercolor paper because the fiber quality of the paper makes the colors glow. They don't actually "glow", but the imperceptible diffusion of the paper seems to give the inks that effect. Gorgeous.

The prints I make of image on the watercolor paper will be on a Fine Art Paper with hand torn edges for an artistic look and feel.

It will be 10x14 in size with a 8x12 image print. I will sign it. The paper is acid free (archival) watercolor paper. Ask the frame shop to use cotton gloves (most good ones do anyway) so errant fingerprints aren't visible on the image or paper through the act of framing.

Who

Jim Rode’s FridayNightArt is a listed member of the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC)

To see artist Jim Rode’s Artist Statement and Bio at OVAC, go to https://www.ovac-ok.org/art/Jim-Rode