A ceramic mug carrying an original watercolor of the Olympic Mountains at sunset, painted as a continuous panorama.
The panorama
The whole landscape works in one warm range — no greens, no blues in it anywhere. Cream and pale gold fill the sky, with a few coral streaks pulled across the top. A soft white-gold sun sits low but hasn't touched the ridgeline yet: still a full disc, still throwing light rather than color.
Below it the ranges stack backward into haze — the farthest ridges nearly the same ivory as the sky, then warm gray, then a heavy brown-black wall in front. Fog lies in the valleys between them, thick enough that each ridge reads as a separate layer floating on its own bank of cloud. Along the near edge, single conifer spires stand in silhouette, small enough to give the ranges their scale.
OLYMPIC runs across the sky in white outlined caps, with National Park beneath it in script — a soft slate blue that is the only cool color in the piece.
Why it works on a mug
Ridgelines survive the wrap in a way a single peak would not. There is no centered summit to be cut in half at the handle — the layers are long horizontal bands, so they carry around the curve and rejoin on the far side. Turning the mug moves you along the range rather than cutting between two halves of one picture.
Best for
The climb out of Port Angeles with your ears popping on the switchbacks. Cold thin air at the top, wet fir, the quiet that arrives the moment you shut the car door. The pullout you always stop at. Watching the valleys fill in below you while the temperature drops and someone goes back for a jacket. The drive down in the dark.
For anyone who stayed up there past the last of the light.
Questions
Does the painting wrap all the way around?
Yes. It is a continuous panorama rather than an image placed on one side, so the ridgelines run unbroken from one edge of the handle to the other. There is no blank panel.
Which part of Olympic National Park is this?
The interior mountain ranges rather than the coastline — the layered-ridge view from the high country above Port Angeles, with fog sitting in the valleys between the ranges. It is an interpretive watercolor of the Olympic range, not a specific marked overlook.
Is the 11 oz the same image as the 15 oz?
The same painting, cropped slightly differently. The two sizes have different print areas, so the 15 oz shows marginally more of the foreground ridge. The sun and the full stack of ranges are on both.
Is this a print of an original painting?
Yes. The artwork is an original watercolor by Nick Scacco, adapted for the wraparound print area. It is not a filter or a photograph.
A ceramic mug carrying an original watercolor of the Olympic Mountains at sunset, painted as a continuous panorama.
The panorama
The whole landscape works in one warm range — no greens, no blues in it anywhere. Cream and pale gold fill the sky, with a few coral streaks pulled across the top. A soft white-gold sun sits low but hasn't touched the ridgeline yet: still a full disc, still throwing light rather than color.
Below it the ranges stack backward into haze — the farthest ridges nearly the same ivory as the sky, then warm gray, then a heavy brown-black wall in front. Fog lies in the valleys between them, thick enough that each ridge reads as a separate layer floating on its own bank of cloud. Along the near edge, single conifer spires stand in silhouette, small enough to give the ranges their scale.
OLYMPIC runs across the sky in white outlined caps, with National Park beneath it in script — a soft slate blue that is the only cool color in the piece.
Why it works on a mug
Ridgelines survive the wrap in a way a single peak would not. There is no centered summit to be cut in half at the handle — the layers are long horizontal bands, so they carry around the curve and rejoin on the far side. Turning the mug moves you along the range rather than cutting between two halves of one picture.
Best for
The climb out of Port Angeles with your ears popping on the switchbacks. Cold thin air at the top, wet fir, the quiet that arrives the moment you shut the car door. The pullout you always stop at. Watching the valleys fill in below you while the temperature drops and someone goes back for a jacket. The drive down in the dark.
For anyone who stayed up there past the last of the light.
Questions
Does the painting wrap all the way around?
Yes. It is a continuous panorama rather than an image placed on one side, so the ridgelines run unbroken from one edge of the handle to the other. There is no blank panel.
Which part of Olympic National Park is this?
The interior mountain ranges rather than the coastline — the layered-ridge view from the high country above Port Angeles, with fog sitting in the valleys between the ranges. It is an interpretive watercolor of the Olympic range, not a specific marked overlook.
Is the 11 oz the same image as the 15 oz?
The same painting, cropped slightly differently. The two sizes have different print areas, so the 15 oz shows marginally more of the foreground ridge. The sun and the full stack of ranges are on both.
Is this a print of an original painting?
Yes. The artwork is an original watercolor by Nick Scacco, adapted for the wraparound print area. It is not a filter or a photograph.
