Still Life Paintings at Magnolias

manhattan-72-500 Manhattan. Acrylic on unstretched canvas, 30 x 30 inches, 2015 by Sarah Atlee. $1,800 For purchase inquiries, contact Ro2 Art at (214) 803 9597 or visit this piece on Artsy.

Are you in or about Dallas, looking for the perfect cup of coffee? Look no further than Magnolias Sous le Pont. And while you're there, enjoy a gathering of succulent still life paintings by Sarah Atlee!

Put this on your calendar for next year (and every year): September 29 is National Coffee Day. Magnolias celebrated this year with a day of music, art, and endless cups of that heavenly brown nectar. They were also nice enough to interview me about my work and process.

Still Life will be up at Magnolias (map link) through 7 January 2017.

Crackers and Bowl

Crackers & Bowl. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.

I spotted this lone packet of crackers one day at the coworking space where my studio used to be. It looked so pitiful. I thought, don't worry, little packet of crackers all alone. You may be eaten, but you will not be forgotten.

More food and drink paintings will be on display at Delish! this October at Broadway Wine Merchants in Oklahoma City. Dates and details on the way.

Sushi: White Plate

Sushi: White Plate. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.

Part of my new series Delish!

Acrylic paints have the wonderful property of being either transparent or opaque. Typically I build an acrylic painting using multiple layers of paint, either thinned with water or mixed with a medium such as Golden's glazing liquid. I mostly use Golden's fluid acrylics for their high concentration of pigment in a low-viscosity vehicle.

For this piece, however, I decided to make the background and shadows flat, opaque, and graphic in order to highlight the details in the sushi rolls themselves.

More food and drink paintings will be on display at Delish! this October at Broadway Wine Merchants in Oklahoma City. Dates and details on the way.

Breakfast: Peaches, Coffee, Shogun

Breakfast: Peaches, Coffee, Shogun. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.

Breakfast: Peaches is part of my upcoming solo exhibition Delish!

Shogun, you ask? No, that's not a typo. The object peeking down from the top of the composition is a worn paperback copy of Shogun by James Clavell that I was reading at breakfast that day.

More food and drink paintings will be on display at Delish! this October at Broadway Wine Merchants in Oklahoma City. Dates and details on the way.