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The Classic Espresso – Final

Chad C. — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:07:00 +0000

Now this one I feel great about. Like…”really great…go ahead and hit me.”
I’m enjoying layering all these colors and mirroring them back and forth, gives the work some depth. Throughout my school career, including high school, my teachers would tell me to stay away from writing, but they didn’t say anything about lettering.
Not something I’m used to doing but I’m quickly becoming a fan of it.

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Hyper Kinetic Hanging Illustrations…batman?

Chad C. — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:55:26 +0000

I’ve bet you said “This guys blog must be buttah, cause he’s on a roll!” Then I closed up shop for a bit for all the framing and printing I had to do. But now I’m back and SOUPS ON from May 27th to June 29th at Uncommon grounds on Church Street in Burlington!

OM NOM NOM!

Well I wasn’t gone for that long, maybe a week. A while back…a while being September, I went into this coffee house galleria place and dropped off a card. Then one day, one day being sometime in April I get a call from the owner saying she wanted me to hang up some work. You can bet your bottom dollar little annie that I said “Sure, sounds like fun…wowee wow wow.”

Fishing line…and stick tack is what I used. I lucked out BIG TIME when I was hanging my work. I met the other artist hanging up work on the wall next to mine and just as I said to myself, “wish I had some stick tack.” BOOM!! She swings in and says “heres the rest of what I was using it!” I knew there were good people left in this world. She saved me really. So if you’re reading this, thanks a lot!

Also I’d like to say thanks to Kelly at Minute Man press in Montpelier who did a bang up job on my prints.

So like always:

Questions, Comments, Concerns??
www.chadcovino.com

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Chad C.

headache…

Chad C. — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:36:26 +0000

For a year or so now I’ve been drinking Yerba Mate but the two pound whopper of a bag and the horse it came in on are just about dead and I need to order more. So, due to the lack of Mate I made the switch over to Coffee, but I really know nothing about it except I like to drink it…problem is now I get these wild headaches if I don’t have coffee during the day. Here’s how my headaches look to me:

OH THERES MORE TO READ…
(fullsize image can be seen on my flickr account to the right)

Before I explain about my coffee headaches I’ll talk about this here drawing. I’m a fan of comic books and have been even more since my college pals Rey-O and J-Pro helped me understand that their are more comics than the hulk..but don’t get me wrong, hulk is still at the top of my list. So I went out and bought some Scott McCloud books to help me understand how to make them.

To sum it all up this is what I’m working on to Illustrate how I talk and use the size of the paper in my Moleskine Japanese Album as the panel ends and make one really long scene.

Heres my first sketchbook from D.C. found on my website.

*JUST SO YOU KNOW…Espresso in the morning is fine…but don’t drink it a couple times a day. I would suggest a Cafe Americano which is pretty swell but if you make an espresso from the Moka make sure…I mean really make sure you choose one that fits your needs. The one I have is the “3 cup” when I should have just went with a “1 cup.” I’m ordering more mate now since it has no side effects (that I know of) and theres none of this “Jittery headache” nonsense.

THATS IT.

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Chad C.

A Bueno Mural

Chad C. — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:52:56 +0000

Che Si Dice!

If you happen to live in the central Vermont area around Barre you should stop into Espresso Bueno! Approach the counter, do a 180 and look to your right. Not only do you get a damn good espresso but you’ll see the mural I did for them on their chalkboard wall. CHECK IT OUT

*Photos found on my flickr account*
www.flickr.com/photos/covinoch

Cafe Bon Bon

Chad C. — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:42:25 +0000

There it is, all finished and ready for show. First drawing in the new series I started about Espresso.

I was talking to my buddy James one day and we start talking about espresso and I said hey, I’ll go to Wiki to check things out. LO AND BEHOLD! there are a lot of different drinks that can be made like, Cafe Bon Bon (as seen above), Kennedy, Red Eye, so on and what forth. So I wanted to see what I could come up with for the different names of drinks and this is the first one I completed, just to see if I wanted to keep drawing them, and I think I will.

Cafe Bon Bon sounded pretty funny when I first read it and then I started doing some research on it. It’s one shot espresso with condensed milk, a really sweet drink. I’m guessing it’s for after dessert kinda drink. Reminds me of a Vietnamese Coffee which is coffee with condensed milk instead of espresso.

When I do my work, I kinda work my way backwards. I start with technique first and I have to nail how I want it to look before I get started on composition and everything. GOTTA! Make sure that colors blend like they do in the real drink, so after a lot of research and testing I’m pretty happy with how the espresso and the milk sit.

Not sure which one to draw next but the “Kennedy” has a lot of potential.

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