I originally created this painting while I was undergoing a nearly year-long recuperation from my hip replacement surgery. I was inspired by a tin sign that used to hang in a now-defunct coffeehouse (which was initially closed due to an electrical fire but remained permanently closed when the owner got into a tax dispute with the local government and he refused to pay). It read "Free Beer Tomorrow!" and it featured a winking waitress with a tray full of beer mugs. I did my own version of the sign by just painting a portrait of a frosted beer mug full of the tantalizing brew. After showing it in a few art shows, I donated it to my church's annual auction and one of my friends bought it. I've seen it hanging in the kitchen of his home, which is the appropriate place for such a painting.

matsumo black under leach blue, overcoat painted on top and bottom ridges; nice contrast between the matte black and the leach, overcoat turned nicely iridescent and multicolored , very runny in neat patterns; bubbles at mug's bottom due to glaze thickness (?)