Gotta find a woman be good to me, won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea

Next project: series of coffee mug/teacup paintings. Thick impasto, outlines like Thiebaud, variety of shapes and sizes.

Reference image:
But with the composition more like this:

Close-up to the point of near abstraction, as per ushe.

I don't really like how those colors came out, but I do want to try to retain that eye movement that the shadows that Photoshop's magic wand picked up, particularly that sideways-backward S in the middle in the blue and purple that goes over the rim.

Color inspiration:
Mostly I'm excited about using Pthalo green/the entire rainbow for no reason in the shadows, I really liked how that looked in the bagel. Even though in critique it made everyone be like wait wtf is that.

Thiebaud does it, look:
Deadline: at least one by January 18.