National Coffee Day at Nemo's Coffee

After I posted my Starbuck's Mermaid photos to Facebook, I received a request from JD Anderson at Nemo's Coffee Shop to come "fancy up" their sidewalk. JD and wife Tracy are founders and owners of Nemo's, a mom-n-pop coffee shop (which, incidentally, is one of the best blogs I've ever read) located at Pikes Peak Avenue and Printers Parkway in Colorado Springs, next to the Pikes Peak Workforce Center.

When I received my work schedule for the week and saw what days I had off, I shot JD a note, "How's Wednesday, the 29th?"

"Perfect," he responded.

Turns out it was TOO perfect! It was also National Coffee Day! Who knew? I sure didn't. (Click here for some interesting facts about coffee.)

I showed up with my canopy and chalk pastels and set to work. JD provided several reference photos, out of which I chose three: the Nemo's turtle logo, of course; a cup of coffee, of course; and a flag for the background, in honor of JD's patriotism. After 8 hours of sketching, bending, squatting, stooping, drawing, blending, brushing, and coloring, it was done.


Getting started on the coffee bean turtle body.


The letters for "Coffee" were too scrunched up so I re-did them.

The coffee cup with heart added by me. Gotta' love coffee!

Starting on the blue field of stars.

I used the "swirls" from Nemo's logo for the coffee steam.

I didn't have enough white to do the stripes of the flag, so I had to leave it blank sidewalk.

Went back the next day for some daylight shots since it was almost dark by the time I finished.




Added my name and Web site, www.stephaniessmorgasbord.com.

Happy National Coffee Day Sept. 29th from Nemo's Coffee!

Posing with my masterpiece. (I'm wearing my "What IF?" t-shirt)

JD sprayed it with shellac, so it'll probably have a longer sidewalk life. :)

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Thanks for looking!