Painting with Coffee & Wine

Painting with wine

Painting with both wine and coffee offers a new palette of colors and textures.

Painting with wine and painting with coffee

Eucalyptus Leaves painted with different wines show the variety of colors available. The Pinot Noir leaves at the top of the image show the different colors created by layering coffee and wine.

What to expect when you start painting with wine and coffee.

  • Painting with wine is much easier than traditional watercolor.
  • There is a wide range of colors found in painting with wine.
  • The color ranges of coffee and wine compliment each other.
  • Coffee and wine can be layered to add new color and texture to a painting. Start with the first layer in coffee or in wine and just keep adding from there. Layer by layer it gets richer and more expressive.
  • It really is possible to relax and have fun painting.
  • You will discover an unexpected use of left-over coffee and wine.
  • For coffee painting I like Espresso and for painting with wine it’s Pinot.

Try Painting with Wine

Painting with wine and painting with coffee

Coffee & Wine Painting
Pinot Noir and eucalyptus leaves are used as a guide for painting with coffee or painting with wine. It is not necessary to drink wine or drink coffee in the painting process but it does help

 

You’ve been drinking it, cooking with it and now you can paint with wine. Let me introduce you to a whole new way of looking at wine and art. You will Amaze yourself & have some fun!

Painting with Wine event at EV Lounge in San Anselmo

Painting with Wine event at EV Lounge in San Anselmo. This was the first wine painting workshop and it was a success. A unique art event for San Anselmo.

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Coffee Oil & Water

Nancy Cicchetti & Eileen Ormiston

Nancy Cicchetti & Eileen Ormiston

Get A Grip

Get A Grip – SOLD -coffee painting of roots.

The show was well attended and received. And, I sold a painting – Get a Grip. Excitement was added to the evening as the sun went down and continuous slides were projected on the back wall displaying works from all three artists. The slide show also included artwork that was not in the show.

The EV Lounge is a unique showroom for art and we are happy to see it become an available space for more artists in San Anselmo.

I continue to be amazed by how fascinated people are about painting with coffee. It looks like there will be a coffee painting workshop at EV Lounge in the future.

New Art

Downtown San Anselmo Art show. Yes!

San Anselmo merchants are getting better and more open to sharing space for local artists to exhibit their work. Nancy Cicchetti and Eileen Ormiston have been my favorite art buddies for many years and it is a treat, and honor,  to be showing my Coffee Paintings with them. This will just be one evening but I am really looking forward to it.
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Squarespace again…

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The time has come again for me to shake it up and see what develops. One thing for sure is I don’t give up. That is just a dead-end and not really what’s going on. I will stay with my coffee painting and I will stay with my website design. I’m still very excited about both. So, I designed a new Website Design for Artists flyer to put up in ArtWorks Downtown and wait for the phone to start ringing.

 

Hiding Places

Mask made at the Artworks Downtown 20/20 Gala

Mask made at the Artworks Downtown 20/20 Gala

Maybe I will shower this blog with new things. Well, new things to the blog but also old things for me.

Starting with something of a blurry image of the mask project at the gala. I’ve never made a mask before so that was kind of new for me. It was fun to participate in some of the party activities at the 20/20 Gala. And to see my Paper Quilt collage get so much press.

Funny because right around this same time I had one of the first “real-quilts” I ever made returned to me. What a flash back taking me to 1973. I never really followed the quilt-making but years later worked for a Batik company that specialized in quilting fabric. And now I am excited to see if the Paper Quilts can find a place in current times.

Wall hanging for Discount Records in Berkeley. 1973

Wall hanging for Discount Records in Berkeley. 1973

Paper Quilt Collage made from Marin IJ

20/20 Vision: Past, Present, Future

20/20 Vision: Past, Present, Future

Time to get back into blogging again. I would say an average of two people visit my blog each day and I guess I should try to keep them interested. Yes, kind of Ho-Hum I know. But I continue to hear how important and effective it is for people/artists to blog. Maybe I would feel more comfortable calling it my Blab. That’s probably already been taken.

Paper Quilt Collage

Sadie is looking right at the Paper Quilt Collage in the Marin IJ

The image above actually represents what happened – more than I thought would happen. All members of ArtWorks Downtown were invited to submit one piece of their art for the Big fundraising Gala and 20 year celebration.  So, since everything would be accepted I decided to submit one of my paper quilt colleges. I was excited to see it was selected to be one of the images shown on the Gala invitation and was also later published in the Marin Independent Journal. Thanks to Vicki Larsen once again.

Mostly this is all encouraging me to continue my Paper Quilt Collage project.