Tag: coffee

Expresso paintings

On By CarynIn art

I bought expresso from The Full Cup coffee and book store back in August with the intension to paint more coffee art. Life happened, and the expresso stayed in a bottle in my fridge for nine months. I finally pulled it out and did some paintings on cotton fiber paper.

Photo description: four expresso paintings, all including a coffee ring made from a coffee cup

I digitized the paintings and made greeting cards that I took back to The Full Cup to sell.

Expresso has a more intense color than American drip, and works similar to water colors. I can “erase” by adding more water, and everything looks different when it dries. The image below took many cycles of painting and drying over several days.

Photo description: Brown-eyed Susan flowers painted with expresso

My plan is to have a whole series of these small paintings, which will be digitized for greeting cards.

Coffee art

On By CarynIn art, Craft

I went to my favorite coffee shop and picked up a latte and a couple shots of expresso to go. I drank the latte, but used the expresso to make lots of shapes on water color paper.

Photo description: Six pages of watercolor paper laid out on the table with an assortment of coffee rings, drops, and splotches of expresso. One page in the back was treated with isopropyl alcohol first, which gave the coffee a diluted/faded effect.

My goal is to digitize the coffee stains to make amalgamated coffee art. First up, a coffee tree. Although I intended to use the shapes to make the tree, I decided to also try just painting an evergreen tree with expresso. It turned out great, so that turned into my base image. I scanned everything, including a scattering of sugar sprinkles. I digitally combined the tree, sprinkles, and a precisely placed coffee ring, and am quite pleased with the result. For fun, I changed the color of the sprinkles in Photoshop so I had two options.

Photo description: Two cards printed on recycled parchment paper, showing a evergreen tree painted in the sepia tones of expresso, topped with a double coffee ring, and festooned with round and star shaped sprinkles. One card has teal sprinkles, the other, red.

These cards are sold exclusively at The Full Cup in Weatherford, TX.