Coffee Painting and Pencil Drawing

It’s becoming clear to me that I can’t stray too far from Painting with Coffee. Mixing strong black coffee with classic pencil drawing is a perfect new mix for me — I love coffee, I love painting and I love drawing. My art supplies are minimal and never far away from a creative urge.

For a little over one month I have committed to an exercise plan of drawing nothing but hammers every day. Luckily I have a special attraction to the way hammers look. They have a certain personality and are very easy to locate when I’m ready to draw. Just about every household has a hammer.

Ball Peen Hammer Painted with coffee

Ball Peen Hammer

Hammers drawn on watercolor paper make coffee painting irresistible. Now I’m working on a series of coffee paintings of hammers.

Coffee is not a new painting medium — I have been told that Victor Hugo painted with coffee. Here’s a link to other Coffee Painters. And here’s a link to my Coffee Shop.

The Situation Room

The Situation Room is my Cyber Studio-Website.  It’s where whatever is currently in progress on my work table can be seen. Also, it’s a Cyber Voice for my intentions and what’s in the current plan.— my version of retiring to the Drawing Room. I keep a Blog  where I can talk to myself about what I’m creating— what’s on my mind. Enter at your own risk. I keep copies of my archival artwork organized in theme portfolios for quick reference.  The flat files are my cyber filing cabinets. The Situation Room is where I work and keep track of what I’m working on. It’s where I punch my time clock.

What’s currently on the table?

Now it’s ShowDown and that’s my version of “I just took the show down in San Rafael” and my next Situation there will be this Friday night.   I will volunteer for the Open Studios Preview Party. It will be nice to be on the other side of the excitement.

Painting with coffee over a pencil drawing. Photo Robert Tong

Painting with coffee over a pencil drawing. Photo Robert Tong


Coffee Painting Workshop | May 16th.

I have reserved a classroom at ArtWorks Downtown in San Rafael for my first workshop. There are already several people signed up and I think the current show also in ArtWorks Downtown will draw more interest because there will be coffee paintings on display and an announcement for the Coffee Painting workshop. I’m working on all of the details but it is a fun exploration and I hope this will be the first of many more workshops.

 

Coffee Painting History
I’ve started googling Coffee Painting to see what other artists have been doing with coffee. Here’s a Great One!