Coffee Art
We’ve seen a lot of paintings showing people sharing a cup of coffee or still-life paintings showing a piping hot cut of java. But not too many people thought of using coffee for painting. Literally using coffee as the ink for their paintings.
Recently, a handful of artists are starting to delve into this organic paint and using it to come up with their own works of art. A good example of which are Andy and Angel (website: http://www.justcoffeeart.com/), and Pornchai Lerthammasiri (website: http://www.asia-art.net/thai_coffee_painting.html).
Using coffee for painting was said to have originated in Thailand where using tea (which has a relative shade of brown to coffee) has been popularly used for painting. Although it had the reputation of being hard to work with, Chinese people have used it to create brown backgrounds and other earthy hues for a lot of works of art. Over time, more and more techniques have been developed to incorporate unique textures and hues that are unique to coffee paint.
Now who would’ve thought that coffee can be used as more than just the subject for the painting but a medium used to create the paintings itself?
Do you know of any other artists that use coffee as a painting medium? Have you tried it yourself? How did it go? Tell us what you think, we’d like to hear all about it.
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