Although living in the same global village, but the Chinese and Western cultures have a lot of differences, Chinese like to drink tea, and Westerners love coffee, in fact, with the exchange and integration of culture, there is no obvious boundary, more and more foreigners have a similar way to hold up the teacup, many Young Chinese people also fall in love with the refreshing "life-sustaining artifact" coffee.
Speaking of coffee, there must be a picture in everyone's mind, we can simply summarize coffee as a coffee-colored drink that can be drunk, unlike colorless water, coffee is colored, which is the possibility of creating works of art for artists. We often say that art comes from life, and that something like coffee is used for drinking, and in the artist's view, its use is much more than that.
They can often be interpreted from a new perspective, and the artist Karen Elan used coffee as a paint to paint many classic paintings. Karen Elan has been a very creative child since childhood, she prefers to observe and think more than her peers, and she can always think of more ways to solve the same problem. At the age of 14, Karen Elan inadvertently took a portrait class that sparked her interest in painting and also inspired her to pursue art as her future career.
Early in her career as an artist, Karen Elan practiced painting almost every day, making a cup of coffee every day and then drawing sketches for the residents who lived nearby. Continuous training has enabled Karen Elan to develop a solid foundation in painting, and she can draw a portrait very accurately and quickly.
However, Karen Elan is not satisfied with this, she has been trying to find a breakthrough, she hopes to find a more innovative way to draw, one day, bored she is inspired by the coffee in her hand, can coffee be like a pencil, needle pen, or watercolor paint to paint like a single pigment pencil, needle pen, or watercolor paint?
Karen Elan began experimenting, carefully dipping her fingers in the coffee to draw simple little drawings, with subtle brushstrokes assisted by spoons or forks. It is difficult to draw the shadow and depth of the picture with a single concentration of coffee, so Karen Elan adjusts the thickness of the coffee according to the needs of the picture by adding water and mixing.
Gradually, Karen Elan can paint some large-scale, complex paintings, and even she has restored many classic paintings that we are familiar with, from "American Gothic" and "Mona Lisa", to "Scream", "The Girl with pearl earrings", in addition to the different colors, the artist uses fingers and spoons as brushes, coffee as paint, and the paintings created are almost full of perfection.
It is understood that now the artist is looking for a new challenge, she has set her sights on beer, I believe that it will not be long before we can see the beer painting created by this talented artist, which is really exciting. Next, let's take a look at the classic paintings that Karen Elan painted with coffee.