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Makarissa created with Coffee

Published: 2026-04-04 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/04, American artist Karen Ylang created an alternative "Makarissa" with coffee, which aroused a strong response in the art world.

American artist Karen Ilan has created a mocha Lisa with coffee after Dadaist artist Duchamp added a beard to the Mona Lisa, the Daily Mail of August 12 reported.

If you think that the creative highlight of the Mocha Lisa is that the Mona Lisa is holding a cup of mocha coffee, you are wrong. The painting is actually painted entirely with coffee.

It took Karen nearly seven months to create the Mocha Lisa. She uses freshly brewed coffee mixed with water as a pigment, smears layers of varying shades on the paper, and lays it flat to dry to complete the painting.

Mocha Lisa isn't the first time Karen has painted with coffee, as she has produced many "coffee versions" of world famous paintings, including an engagement portrait of Prince William and his wife. Cullen's "coffee painting" sold for $15000, and the enthusiastic response gave her confidence in her future creation.

Cullen says he has always been a coffee lover, and his inspiration for using coffee as a pigment came from an experience in 1998. At the time, she was working on watercolors over coffee in a coffee shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The different colors of different coffee flavors inspired her creation, and "coffee painting" was born.

In fact, this is not the world famous painting and coffee for the first time "passion collision." In 2009, artists assembled a giant portrait of the Mona Lisa from 4000 cups of latte, black and white coffee at a "Rocks District Coffee Festival" in Sydney Harbour, Australia.

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