There's a Hare in my Coffee

Oooh a bit of color? Yes, it has pink and purple in there :/ My advisers are pressuring me to try painting color works in an effort to expand, explore, and get out of my comfort zone. So I did this and I'm hesitant by its results. They also wanted me NOT to use black and limit the outlines I do...agh! So it’s all dark grays, color, and almost no lines

The twisted 1920'ish character is Joe, and I think he’s a weasel. The concepts of these "Joe" paintings are used as narrative puns and different views on normal everyday things. In this painting, Joe goes to a large lactating udder that dispenses coffee instead of milk. It’s his nourishment to get through the day. But when he gets there he finds a Hare has violated his coffee by licking it and dipping his pancreas in it too. Joe is running out of time and his watch lets him know it, meanwhile an "evil bird" watches on...death is eminent here. The whole thing is about getting a coffee while late to work and finding a hair in your cup.

So yeah. It’s okay now that I've gone on to other works, but I still think I should outline the rest...or at least the bird (he looks SO unfinished in my eyes).

Painted Acrylic on Canvas
Joe Gets Coffee (c) 2008 Crystal Gonzalez