Nick Savides

Gumball Machine, Oil Painting

2019

Artist Comments
Nick came across this scene in Greenwich Village in Manhattan on a late summer afternoon. "I was fascinated by a father and daughter with a gumball machine outside an IT'SUGAR candy store on Broadway," he says. "You can see the reflection of the surrounding buildings in the gumball machine globe."

About the Artist
Nick learned to paint from his mother when he was a child, but it wasn’t until college that he decided to be a career artist. His realist images of New York City are inspired by the drama of the city–the changing light, the spontaneous magic. Nick begins his process with reference photographs from his daily life, often shooting the same scene at multiple times of the day. He brings the images back to his Brooklyn studio where he composes a scene in Photoshop, adding and subtracting elements from multiple photographs to achieve the perfect composition before beginning to paint. “As my artwork is realistic, one might be tempted to think they are copies from nature,” says the artist. “Really, they are composed–every detail is considered. It is a balance between what is seen, what is true to nature, and what can make a good painting.”

Words that describe this painting: Hopperesque, Hopper, The Village, gumball machine, father, daughter, cityscape, NYC, New York, child, parent, people, realism, representational, oil painting, green

Gumball Machine
Nick Savides
Oil painting on stretched linen
Finished white edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2019
12 in. h x 9 in. w x .75 in. d
0 lbs. 12 oz.