Yesterday I decided to be experimental, and since I had some coffee leftover, I thought I’d paint  “watercolor”, in coffee.  This happens to be one of my favorite farms around the area we are now living.   I love the fence meandering thru the hills.  I wish I could visit, and take pictures within it as well, but I don’t think it’s open to the public.

After fiddling around with it for about an hour or so, I figured out that the coffee was not giving me the contrast I needed for a monochromatic piece.  I then picked a dark sepia colored pencil, and worked thru part of today to finish it.  I still intend to do another place tonight, but this is yesterday’s posting– belated.

I’m happy with the piece as a whole.  I enjoyed restricting myself to one color.  And although the experiment didn’t work, I’m still glad I tried.

Has anyone worked with coffee before?  I have some seen some great things, but could not reproduce the same results.  Any ideas?

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