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"Coffee cup and milk carton" 

oil on panel, 8 x 8 inch.

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This is a variation on the previous coffee cup and cutlery.   If you look to the surfaces, especially the table top, you'll see I'm pushing changes in the colour and warmth of reflected light.  Purple in the shadows, and blue, pink and yellow in the light.  I'm also trying not to be too fussy about precision.  A level of accuracy is important when recognisable objects are being represented but it's easy to get carried away with rendering at the expense of the material aspects which make paintings enjoyable. 

If there was one thing I'd do differently, it would be to create more variation in the local colours (blue and orange) of the two protagonists.  Our minds read colour differently to the way they register on our retina.  Sky blue, grass green, brown dirt, when there is much more variation when we stop and think a little more critically about the visual information before us.  For example, I purposefully picked the complementary blue and orange for punch but I think in reality the orange on the cup became a green-brown or brown-green in the shadows.  If I pushed the protagonist's colour the result could have been even more satisfying.

I mentioned in the last post that the little coffee cup was inherited from my parents' neighbours.  One of a beautiful set of japanese coffee cups.  There's a little bit of remembrance and honouring to those lovely neighbours who were ever so good to our family, whenever I use the cups.

To see what colours were on my palette go to a related post about my palette and colours.