Introducing the latest Oddment series (with a nod to Philip Pullman): Her Odd Materials. I've been itching to get away from the computer, & I'm a pack rat with collections of all sorts of curious bits & pieces. So I've decided that the next few Oddments will be creatures created with unusual media, or on unusual substrates, or both.
It seems appropriate (for a caffeine junkie like me anyway) to start any new project with a nice cup of coffee. And so I decided to inaugurate this series with a painting using coffee as medium.
Coffee, pencil & gouache on found paper, ~3"x4"
Details: I boiled down some coffee so that it would be dark enough for the darks, used normal-strength coffee for the palest tones, & white gouache for highlights. The background paper is from a Workman's Weekly Time Book (pocket sized). Not sure of the actual publication date, but the entries are from 1929-30.
Warning: Boiled coffee smells utterly vile, & the reek ruins the flavor of any good coffee one happens to be drinking!
Wow, love this!
ReplyDeleteOkay, how much do I love this? It may have to do with the fact that I'm a bit of a coffee addict, myself. And I love that you're painting on ephemera...delicious! I may survive the ending of the alphabet after all...
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. What a great idea. Why didn't I think of this??
ReplyDeleteLovely creature, which is active only in the night ( big eyes). I like that idea to use coffee as paint = for many of us "antisleep fluid".
ReplyDeleteThank you all! I'm already over my post-curiotype depression & having fun thinking up what to do next! :-D
ReplyDeleteyour artworks are amazingly and oddly beautiful!
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