I've always loved the smell of coffee. When I lived on 13th street, my next door neighbor's morning coffee would waft through the wall and wake me up like the best alarm clock.
When I visited the coffee factory outside Paris. I got to experience every step of the coffee roasting process. These resident antique coffee mills are just for show.
Talk about heady coffee aromas. There is nothing like marching through a coffee roasting factory for a wake-up call. Roasting transforms the green beans into a product that can be brewed and unlocks at least 700 aromatic elements.
A wide range of carefully selected beans are blended just like wine or chocolate.
For the past 3 months I've been painting coffee cups. Mainly I've been trying to figure out how to paint BLACK cups or just anything BLACK.
It's why I haven't always had "a daily painting" to show you.
Don't get me wrong! 
Many mornings I would take a "MAGIC PILL" to help me paint...
One of the problems is: 
I've done a gazillion color tests. It's one of the fun ways to procrastinate. This is my BEST black cup so far.
It was my 1st visit, so I didn't know what to expect from a Paris coffee boutique...But their window told me I would not be disappointed
The LES COMPTOIRS shops come under the umbrella of Cafes Richard, who supply Paris' many cafes and restaurants with coffee.
Even so, inside they have tea, chocolate bars, hot chocolate, and coffee of course. Plus everything you could dream of to make them. Cookies too.
And those adorable Petal cups I wrote about before I left...well you can buy them here, plus the exact same cups you'll see in any Paris cafe.
They have a gazillion kinds of tea - you choose from the blackboard.
And coffee beans from everywhere ground fresh for you.
Could you PLEASE open up in New York City!!! 
La Tasse Petale- Cafes Richard, original watercolor, 8 1/2" x 11" 
I'd seen pictures of the new La Tasse Petale cup and was a little hesitant.
My allegiances were to a cafe cup I met and painted in Provence.
OK I'm fickle...when I next met this cup at Le Luco Cafe, my heart went pitter, patter. A new love and so much fun to paint!
TA -DA! I introduce you to the brand NEW La Tasse Petale. 
The creators of this new cup for Cafe Richard are SISMO Design Antoine Fenoglio and Frederic Lecourt specialize in taking quotidienne / everyday objects and giving them a new twist. They have a shop in the Marais and I can't wait to visit it! 
My new cups came with loads of chocolate squares.
Hot Chocolate, watercolor
Especially when you consider the other options out there...
Falling for a sugarcube / sucre morceaux makes no sense at all...
Cafe Teapots, watercolor, 9" x 11 1/2" 
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