Natural coffee as water media

Margo5 wrote

on 9 Nov 2011 9:33 AM

Coffeeart, love this painting. Thanks for sharing.

coffeeart wrote

on 10 Nov 2011 4:41 PM

Hi Margo! Thank you for your nice words! Much appreciated!

Debrah Barr wrote

on 6 Jan 2012 2:28 PM

Tea is great fun too - makes a lovely, rich looking wash - handy when I am out and about with a sketch pad and no colors handy - just get some tea!! See, you CAN play with your food!

Paul Sullivan wrote

on 6 Jan 2012 7:24 PM

Deborah and All—

All this is very sitmulating! Although, it would probably be a good idea to check the coffee cans and tea bags to see how light fast the stuff is. We've needed an earth color with some gusto ever since they started selling us decaffeinated burnt umber.

I understand dirty water works well also. John Pike used to use it on occasion and Dong Kingman worked with dirty water quite often. The story is that Kingman used an old mayonnaise jar for his water and seldom bothered to rinse it out. So, if dirty water works, why not coffee or tea?

I've had Pepsi on a few ad layouts through the years. In fact, it dries to a nice tan color. However, that was commercial stuff and we didn't bother to worry about the archival qualities of our work—just the deadlines. 

Paul Sullivan

j.bugg wrote

on 8 Jan 2012 6:41 PM

decaf burnt umber... I knew something was up

leaparicio wrote

on 10 Jan 2012 10:50 AM

Hi, this is the first post I read when I enter the forum for the first time; it's such a coincidence that lately I've been experimenting with coffee and wine and this is the first thing that comes up.  Beautiful paintings coffeeart.  

My works are more loose, as what I do is sketching on location, so they are small, fast and less formal.  I still haven't found the perfect mix as to do the very dark, almost black tones you get.  Also, as I'm sketching on location, what I do is that I purchase an espresso from a local coffee shop to do the first washes and the medium tones.  I use a tub of clear water and a tub of the overdone instant coffee I bring from home.  Here is a link to some of my coffee sketches: http://sketchfullyyours.com/category/coffee

Now that I see the rich tones you are achieving I'll try it again soon.  Thanks for sharing.

coffeeart wrote

on 10 Jan 2012 11:17 AM

Happy New Year and beautiful creations to all! Thank you for your lovely words.

Here are some of my coffee painting:

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/georgeta-blanaru.html

and here is one of my tutorial:

http://youtu.be/j-RKenY0Iy8

grace

watermike wrote

on 29 Apr 2012 8:16 AM

I may be too late, but YES, let's see a demo

coffeeart wrote

on 29 Apr 2012 3:20 PM

Hope you'll enjoy it!

j RKenY0Iy8

watermike wrote

on 29 Apr 2012 5:04 PM

Thanks Coffeeart!

coffeeart wrote

on 29 Apr 2012 5:40 PM

You're welcome!