Makarissa created by Coffee Culture with Coffee

According to the Daily Mail of August 12, after Dadaist artist Duchamp added a beard to the famous painting protagonist Mona Lisa, American artist Karen Ilan created an alternative "Moca Lisa" out of coffee, causing a strong reaction in the art world.

If you think the creative highlight of this Mocha Lisa is that the Mona Lisa has a cup of mocha coffee in her hand, you are wrong. The painting is actually painted entirely in coffee.

It took Karen nearly seven months to create the Mocha Lisa. She uses freshly baked coffee mixed with water as a pigment, smears layers on the paper to form shadows of different shades, and puts it flat to dry.

It is reported that "Makarissa" is not the first time Karen has painted with coffee, and she has also made many "coffee versions" of world-famous paintings, including portraits of Prince William and his wife's engagement. Karen's Coffee painting once sold for $15000, and the enthusiastic response from the market made her confident about her future creation.

Karen says she has always been a coffee lover and that the inspiration for using coffee as a paint came from an experience in 1998. At that time, she was drinking coffee and creating watercolors in a coffee shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The different colors of different flavors of coffee inspired her creation, and "Coffee painting" was born.

In fact, this is not the first "passionate collision" between this world-famous painting and coffee. In 2009, artists created a giant portrait of the Mona Lisa with 4000 cups of lattes, black and white coffee at a Rock area Coffee Festival in Sydney Harbour, Australia.