What better way to start the day off than with a great cup of coffee?  Bring in great atmosphere and warm sunlight on your back and you've created a memory to get you through the worst parts of the day.  This is exactly what I had in mind when I started work on this piece.  Wasilla has a lot of really nice, quaint, feel good coffee shops.  For this painting I did a scene from Pandemonium.  Not because its new, or colorful, lots of seating, or just great coffee but because of Dave.  Yes Dave, the man in the middle.  Many a day I've gone into Pandemonium to escape the cold dark Alaskan winter.  And on so many occasions I'd see Dave there.  He was always happy, content and gave the whole place a "feel good" atmosphere.  I thought I was the only one that noticed this until Pandemonium named him the official greeter, name tag and all.  A title he well deserves.  It wasn't until I started getting the reference photos for this piece that I found out he was a fellow artist as well.  The coffee cup in the upper left hand corner is one of his pieces he did for Pandemonium.  Overall it was great doing this painting.  I got the opportunity to show Dave to everyone as the happy-go-lucky fellow his is.