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Coffee Inc.


My girlfriend Karen owns a coffee shop, Cafe Lulu near Greenlake in Seattle. I get some perks, like free coffee and if I’m really nice maybe a cup of the amazing Granola they have there, and if I’m really REALLY nice an Egg Tasty Bagel with capers, tomatoes, and bacon. I figured that if I was getting free stuff maybe I would at least do a drawing when I go in there. Mind you, this is not a one to one contract (coffee to ink), just an intention to do a little sketching in there now and then. Here are a couple from this week.

After Easter things turn to blue and pink.

What do you do after Easter Service? You go eat donuts and draw. I had the blue marker in my pocket and looked for blue things. Fortunately there was a blue Volvo parked in front of Top Pot (and for that matter Top Pot’s amazing donut boxes are blue), and fortunately everything else including Karen looks good when rendered in blue. The pink pen came in later during lunch. I found it at a friend’s house and hovered over the page as I debated whether brown hair really should be pink. Yes it should when that’s what you are working with. The tree was green, but hey I think the pink works better there too.

It should be noted that I labeled the first image as Easter Do-Nuts. I don’t really know the proper spelling here. Donuts? Doughnuts? I think the dash could be a new approach to liven up this industry.

Karen eating rabbit food

Karen eating a Central Market salad