Coffee in conjunction to Indian ink can produce lovely art works.
Make strong coffee and when cold, brush the coffee on bond paper, water color paper or Strathmore board and apply different layers to build the shade of brown you desire.
The look will be one of water colors and the beauty of the coffee verses other liquids such as juices and wines is that it will leave neither pulp nor residue on your canvas.
When using paper for art work it might be wise to obtain acid free paper or museum board. These will keep the paper white for years to come and while there are different kinds of papers, alkaline paper can last 1000 years.
The bamboo artwork shown was not done on acid free paper so yellowing is occurring but in this case, it works.
Would you not rather tell a friend that your painting was done with gourmet coffee rather than water colors?
For Father’s Day my son gave me 2 pounds of raw unroasted Green Colombian Supremo coffee beans and a Toastmaster pop corn popper, model TPC2, to be more exact.
We inserted the raw beans in the popper and after two minutes the beans started popping gently.
Six minutes from the start the raw beans had roasted to a shiny and greasy brown perfection. After a few roasted bean loads we concluded that the longer the roast, the darker and stronger the bean. Maybe our scientific analysis was incorrect but the espressos we made were magnificent. We might have even raised the bar to Starbucks and Pete’s Coffee which in their own virtue are mighty fine.
We decided to roast the beans outside next time because roasting coffee makes a lot of smoke.
The last time I looked on the web for Green Columbian Supremo it was about $4.45 x lb for a 5 lb bag. Starbucks coffee at the market is an average of $10.00 per 12 ounces (3/4 of a lb) and Pete’s coffee is even more.
