I’ve previously seen a televised news piece about an artist couple who paint with coffee – about their experience in finding the right coffees and brewing methods to create hues and everything – they used coffee for a watercolour method, I believe.
Here is another interesting piece onf LJWorld.com about an artist, Chanisa Arthachinda, who uses very strong espresso to paint her canvas. She makes it very thick, like oil, to resemble an oil medium.
Chanisa uses one colour, brown, in its very hues as a calming method that mimics her interest in meditaion.
Link via The Blog of a Coffee Addict.
“Coffee” is a fascinating medium to form art. It is quite successful experiment using Coffee to get the old-look effect in your painting. It is all about using pure coffee, water and your brush. Coffee painting produces everlasting shining.
Experiences of Artists frm Ami Fine Arts, India on Coffee Paintings
“My experiences with watercolor painting have been more excited. I have heard of using own hand made stone colors by artists. While going through international art techniques and exhibitions, I was really inspired from Thai’s coffee painting. It demands mainly your control and hand over watercolor paintings. It makes me trying and success was not so far ahead. I tried with ‘Coffee’ for my exhibitions where I presented more other 9 medium arts”
“No doubts, this medium’s touch is very challenging. You need patience and creative while making your art with ‘Coffee’ painting. It has more resilient than any other paint. You need to be cautious while using water to thin and proposing shades on paper or canvas. With my painting ‘Carving’, it was just like an examination of my line control skills while using ‘Coffee’ as medium. It has more sparkling and shining. It is quite successful using on ‘Canvas’ rather simple paper as it molds easily. However, Coffee’s mark effect on the paper and the flow of water mixed with coffee is amusing. Further it is good to see as your medium of painting what you use daily and which is near to you”
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If you like coffee as an art medium you should check out my web site http://www.nosuchanimal.net, http://www.coffee-art.com and http://www.justcoffeeart.com. We are all coffee artist and all have very different styles.
Ezju
That’s very true. Uniqueness achieved by coffee painting cannot be delivered by any other medium.Coffee Painting is also known as Arfé. The word comes from a combination of the words art and café!!
If you are interested to know about Coffee painting more, please visit – http://coffeepaintings.artandpainting.net/index.aspx
Few examples of Coffee Paintings :
http://coffeepaintings.artandpainting.net/images/Tiger.jpg
http://coffeepaintings.artandpainting.net/images/Bhabha.jpg
http://www.artandpainting.net/images/Colosium.jpg
I have a question regarding using coffee and indoor latex paint. We’ve painted our kitchen a nice, cheery yellow, but now wish it were darker. I had the idea to use coffee to darken and give a rustic look, but I wonder if I can use it like a wash, or if I should mix it into the paint? Has anyone tried this?