Painting is a form of creative expression that has existed for centuries and continues to evolve today. From prehistoric cave paintings to modern abstract paintings, painting has played an important role in human history and our culture.
Paintings often give us a meaningful depiction of a phenomenon in human civilization, realistically or surrealistically. Because of this, many artists give their paintings unusual touches and elements, such as the use of coffee as painting ink.
Yes, you read that right, coffee can be a very interesting and unique medium for painting. The use of coffee as a painting medium is nothing new. For a long time, artists and painters have used coffee to create paintings or drawings.
The uniqueness of painting with coffee is that the colors produced tend to be dark and give a dramatic vintage impression. Therefore, the art of painting with coffee requires high skill and creativity, and requires patience in the process.
In addition, the art of painting with coffee has a unique aesthetic value, as well as historical and cultural value. This is because coffee is closely related to human socio-culture to economics and politics.
Are you curious about paintings that use coffee? Check out these paintings from coffee artists:
Angel Sarkela-Saur & Andrew Saur
This duo of American coffee artists have been painting with coffee for several years. Together, they developed coffee painting processes and techniques. At first, they were confused when they took part in their first art show at a coffee shop in Duluth, Minnesota.
Angel and Andrew wanted to come up with something unique and creative. Since their performance would take place in a coffee shop, they thought of using only coffee as painting material.
After trying several techniques, such as using coffee beans to sketch and making pastels from coffee grounds, they finally decided to use coffee as watercolor.
Their works can be seen here
Sunshine Plata Alimagno
Plata is a Filipino artist who has been painting since 2007. She was originally a school teacher, but quit because she wanted to focus on art.
Plata is known for using coffee as a base for painting ink. His paintings also explore human portraits, the mystical world and religious symbols.
Plata’s works can be seen here
Karen Eland
Karen has been an artist since she was a teenager, at the age of 14 she entered the world of art careers. His coffee painting skills have taken him all over the world-England, France, Italy, Croatia, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland.
Karen explores the potential of coffee as paint by recreating famous masterpieces, such as her Mona Latte, also from her own photographs and ideas.
Plata’s works can be seen here
Hong Yi
Hong Yi, a Malaysian painter, first caught the public’s attention with two of her paintings, a portrait of Yao Ming (NBA basketball player) painted with a basketball, and a portrait of Ai Wei Wei (Chinese contemporary artist) painted with sunflower seeds.
His phenomenal painting, a portrait of Jay Chou (Taiwanese actor), was painted with coffee. Uniquely, he does not use a brush as a painting tool, but a cup. He soaks the bottom of the cup with coffee, and then sticks it to the canvas.
Hong Yi’s works can be viewed here
Ghidaq al-Nizar
This Indonesian artist is famous for his paintings on dried leaves. Ghiday, as he is called, is known for his painting technique on dry leaves using coffee grounds.
His paintings also explore new media to replace canvas, and are elaborated with coffee grounds.
Ghiday’s works can be seen here
Sawir Wirastho
This Malang-based artist has been painting with coffee grounds since 1999. He has produced dozens of paintings from coffee grounds. Unfortunately, in 2007 many of his works were burnt down in a disaster.
He currently runs a coffee shop in Malang City, and while waiting for customers, he spends his free time drawing.
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