Nick Savides

Think Coffee, Oil Painting

2021

Artist Comments
Artist Nick Savides paints a realistic scene of a hip cafe on Bleecker Street at Bowery in NoHo. Customers sit at the tables in various relaxed poses. The reflection of Debbie Harry appears in the cafe's window, indicating the street lies across Shepard Fairey's Blondie mural. Primary colors punctuate the foreground in this contemporary urban cityscape.

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: cafe, Debbie Harry, Blondie, mural, Hopper, Hopperesque, New York, NYC, cityscape, realism, urban, NOHO, East Village, oilpaint, architecture, travel, people, window, architecture, people, realism, oil painting, red

Think Coffee
Nick Savides
Oil painting on stretched linen
Finished white edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2021
18 in. h x 24 in. w x 1.25 in. d
3 lbs. 5 oz.