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Painting with coffee is something many artists around the world do. They use coffee as a pigment for experimentation purposes or because they like the results. Artists routinely test techniques and ways to mix paint pigments, colors and watercolors.
Coffee painting artists are also coffee lovers. Painting with coffee is one way to give permanence to a wonderful drink as a work of art. What is better than sipping a delicious cup of coffee and creating a work of art of a favorite landscape, market scene, an animal or a human profile?
Artists tend to have long and irregular schedules. Coffee is an artist’s welcomed companion that adds mood and buzz for inspiration.
Is it easy painting with coffee?
- Actually, it takes years to master the right texture of coffee and water.
- Artists generally start a painting by sketching with pencil based on a feeling for the subject or an idea in their heads.
- They use darker graphite pencils for texture, add watercolors and experiment with coffee. They test the use of different paper weights.
- Artists spend much time figuring out the type of paper, canvas, material or combinations to use for the best results.
- Some artists use inexpensive coffee, decaffeinated, regular, instant form or espresso. Espressos can be very effective and lasting for painting purposes.
- Artists dilute the strength of the cup just like watercolor: by adding water. Sometimes they want a light mixture.
- For other effects a heavier mixture is preferable.
How much coffee and how to paint with it really turns out to be a personal preference:
- The coffee pigment lends itself very well for painting purposes.
- It gives an effective shining, dark hues and stains that are very unique.
- One of the challenges an artist has is the prevention of excessive moisture and mold problems on the final painting.
- Artists understand how to do this through their knowledge about how to control water colors, the use of other liquids, natural fibers, natural plant leaves, petals or other organic materials used for painting.
- Coffee paste creates very dark colors.
- For other desired effects, artists can mix watercolor paint with liquid coffee mixture without problem.
- By painting with coffee, the artist can create monochromatic watercolors with shades of brown that are very unique.
- Using coffee for staining and toning creates a unifying element.
- It gives an instant antique quality to the painting that is very attractive.
What is the most typical subject matter?
- Some of the coffee painting artists use coffee as a subject matter but also as an artistic medium.
- They focus around the coffee culture and coffee industry.
- Their coffee paintings become an expression of the daily life of farmers and people who work with coffee.
- Their paintings illustrate scenes from coffee plantations, coffee shops and more!
For example, in Colombia, one professional artist who paints with coffee is Luz Adriana Quiceno. She is a graphic designer who is committed to painting with coffee for more than four years. She signs her paintings “Luza.” The main purpose of her paintings is to tell stories about the coffee culture including her very personal recollections as a child in a family coffee farm.
Other coffee artists include, for example: Amita & Mira Chudasama; Andy and Angel and Karen Eland, and Edward Patrick Kranz (Ezju)
What about drinking some Costa Rican Tarrazu now?
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