When coffee becomes a pigment.

Maria Coffee Art.

Maria and her coffee art.

▲ Maria Coffee works of art "Girl with earrings".

The main paint in ▲ Maria's painting is coffee.

Maria Aristidou, 27, is an excellent artist who uses coffee stains as paint, which has attracted a lot of attention. She calls her paintings "coffee art", and many British people have become her fans because of her paintings.

Maria received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Manchester City University in the UK and a master's degree in MA from the University of Central Lancashire. Maria has had a great talent for painting since she was young. "I started writing when I was very young. When I first picked up a pencil when I was a child, I began to draw on the walls of my mother's bedroom with a pen."

The art of coffee was inspired by an accidental discovery by Maria earlier this year. That day, Maria accidentally spilled coffee everywhere and soiled the work she was working on. When Maria was anxious, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the coffee stains on her clothes were very beautiful. "I was fascinated by a pool of coffee stains on my clothes, which fascinated me so much that I began to want to open up a new art form. I've been trying, and then I have what you see now, and this is what I call the art of coffee! "

Maria is immersed in making "coffee paintings" for her favorite people, characters and animals. she often studies a series of themes, and her recent inspiration comes from British dignitaries around her. In order to achieve a better creative effect, she mixed five different coffee admixtures into the water according to the theme on display, and then poured the coffee liquid into her color palette, a highly technical process. The rest is what she is best at-bringing characters and themes to life on paper.

In terms of subject matter and theme, Maria loves the field of pop culture and celebrities. She is also obsessed with integrating design, Internet trends, social media platforms, movies and music. From her works, people can strongly feel her enthusiasm for work.

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The best art of coffee

Most natural: use drinks instead of fuel

For many people, the first reaction to spilling coffee may be to wipe it off with annoyance, but Giulia Bernardelli, a female artist from Mantua, Italy, takes inspiration from spilled food stains, creating all kinds of unexpected paintings out of food.

It is reported that about a year ago, Julia accidentally spilled a cup of coffee, but she saw a rich brown tone in the coffee stain and the possibility of painting with them. So the accident became an opportunity for Julia to paint with coffee. Gradually, Julia felt that all the painting materials she needed could be found around her, so she decided to replace traditional paints with some daily foods such as coffee, tea, red wine and fruit, and gradually embarked on an unusual path of painting. Advocating the naturalness of art, she believes that compared with traditional professional pigments, these natural "gifts" such as leaves, fruit peel and food have different colors and touch.

In addition to the ingenuity of the raw materials, Julia also told reporters that she never designed her own paintings in advance, but trusted her intuition and let her inspiration flow freely.

The latest novelty: draw coffee paintings on leaves

While other artists are still painting on paper with coffee, Indonesian artist Ghidaq al-Nizar finds a different way to use coffee stains and watercolors to paint paintings on leaves, which is very creative and creative, and what is more valuable is that this inspiration and creative time takes place during his afternoon tea.

Most casual: coffee stains draw monsters

One day, a copywriter saw coffee stains sprinkled on paper. He thought the random coffee stains looked like a monster, so he began to love spilling a little coffee while drinking coffee. and hand-painted it into a cute little monster. This newspaper is comprehensive (source: international online, Sohu)

Translator: Huang Weiyu

Source: Newsivity website