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Painting with coffee  Espresso coffee has a high content of oil, and dark pigments. Is excellent to use as a paint The above and below paintings are made Karen Alen. The creation of coffee!   |
Painting with coffee is something fascinating, particularly for us coffee lovers. I decided to go ahead and give it a try. I brewed a cup of Julien's Peak, played some classical violin tunes, grasp a coffee book to get inspired, and brought my Ethiopian Jebena to do the honors.
After a morning of brewing espressos, I finally made 3 types of coffee ink.
Dark, Medium and Light. To make this possible i have played with the following parameters:
Grade of the grind, to make it thicker or thinner
Grade of roasting ( the darker the roast the darker the paint)
Ratio between coffee powder and water ( less or more concentrate)
Then I choose 2 types of aquarelle paper: 150 GSM and 300GSM grain fin.
I spend 3 hours in bliss and peace, smelling the coffee ink while giving the strokes with the brush, enjoying the music, drinking coffee with friends.....being at home.
Do you wanna try?
Coffee vendor at Kalossi market, Sulawesi island.Today, is the 16th of October 2010, World Food Day
. We have gathered in front of the Solar Kitchen to set up a market. Coffee Ideas! has organized a coffee art session. Many people came to try out this new way of making art with 100 % natural coffee ink.
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| Sawmia drawing an elephant |
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| Ok J Lee, brought special paper and brushes from Korea. |
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| Teo Lara painting a portrait of Eden Tormo |
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| Matilde and Aloe interacting with the visitors |
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| Jhonny painting with the straw technique. Drop a drop of coffee ink into the paper, take a deep breath, shut down the mind ( if you can!) and just blow and follow your inspiration. |
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| Teo finishing the portrait |
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| Eden helping Julien to to his first coffee creation |
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| Uma painting a mandala |
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| Writing a Zen poem |
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| Eden portrait by Teo Lara |
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| Our dear Royal Enfield Bullet. She carries the coffee to all the shops and with her we had traveled all around South India following the coffee spirit. |
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| Our coffee stall |
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| An Ethiopian jebena with a a branch of coffee bush with cherries. |
2 comments:
Marc! What can I say? Inspired, innovative, obsessive...Nice one.
Fantastic ! will definitely try it here. all the art looked super, eden's portrait is amazing. loved the straw blown work - this one megha can try :)SUPERB INITIATIVE
mala chinna
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