print size: 49 × 69 inches
color: black and white painting with watered down raw sienna, blue, white and purple acrylic paint, black sharpie pen.
material: muslin canvas and white draftsman paper
date created: december 1995
Living in Seattle for 18 years, you inevitably become a regular at a few local restaurants. One of my favorites was Coastal Kitchen on 15th Avenue in Capitol Hill. What made this place special besides the food that kept me coming back was their rotating menu. Every quarter, they reinvented it around a different coastal city somewhere in the world. And with every new menu came a new request for me to create a painting inspired by that destination. The walls were large, so the paintings had to be large too because subtlety apparently was not on the menu.
This particular painting was created for their Morocco-inspired menu, celebrating North African flavors and atmosphere. It also gave me an excuse to channel another favorite of mine: Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and the endlessly glamorous Ingrid Bergman. I love the story, the moody colors and let’s be honest the heroic amount of smoking Bogart manages in that film. I designed the painting to resemble the front of a cigarette pack you might buy in Morocco. Care for a smoke? (No lighter included.)
print size: 49 × 69 inches
color: black and white painting with watered down raw sienna, blue, white and purple acrylic paint, black sharpie pen.
material: muslin canvas and white draftsman paper
date created: december 1995
Living in Seattle for 18 years, you inevitably become a regular at a few local restaurants. One of my favorites was Coastal Kitchen on 15th Avenue in Capitol Hill. What made this place special besides the food that kept me coming back was their rotating menu. Every quarter, they reinvented it around a different coastal city somewhere in the world. And with every new menu came a new request for me to create a painting inspired by that destination. The walls were large, so the paintings had to be large too because subtlety apparently was not on the menu.
This particular painting was created for their Morocco-inspired menu, celebrating North African flavors and atmosphere. It also gave me an excuse to channel another favorite of mine: Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and the endlessly glamorous Ingrid Bergman. I love the story, the moody colors and let’s be honest the heroic amount of smoking Bogart manages in that film. I designed the painting to resemble the front of a cigarette pack you might buy in Morocco. Care for a smoke? (No lighter included.)