MK from Julia Latte (Julia Grechukhinv).
Greetings to all! I really like to draw, especially with a coffee solution on paper. My first experiments with coffee on paper appeared in 2010. I was then impossible to drink coffee, quite, and I decided to try to draw them to feel your favorite fragrance. Happened! Now I can not stop. Experimental with the addition of cocoa, chicory, vanilla, cinnamon, sugar. Combine coffee with watercolor.
I decided to make this little master class on coffee drawings so that anyone could try to create his fragrant fairy tale. It is not difficult: it will take coffee, brushes, high-quality watercolor paper, clean water, napkins, frame with glass.
First, you need to prepare a coffee solution for drawing. I tried to boost ground coffee to the density, but now I use a simplified recipe. I take the soluble granular coffee (it is important that not the cheapest) and add so much water so that the creamy mass is turned out. Be sure to give time to settle, then the solution becomes a homogeneous-glossy-syrupless without any bubbles and undisturbed granules.
The brushes will fit synthetic round and oval, thin (№2, 4) and thoroughly (No. 8, for example). Natural round brushes will also rise.
Paper is the material on which it is not worth saving exactly. The density should be 270-300 g / m2 (ordinary watercolor paper - about 200 g / m2 - not suitable). I use a good French Torson, cotton fibers have been added to it, suitable for wet watercolor and for coffee drawings, of course. Like paper manufacturers Fontaine, Lana, Canson.
Water is needed for tone adjustment. If a dark shade is required - we take a coffee solution in its pure form if a brighter tone is required - diluted with water. It turns out a wonderful sepium stretching in color.
Napkins will use the surplus of moisture with brushes to wash.
Well, at the end you need a dried drawing to protect with glass and arrange in the frame. If this is not done, the drawing can be spoiled from moisture. Light spots and divorces remain from unplanned droplets in the image. Lacuate the drawing is not worth it, because Coffee under glass is preserved perfectly, but the lacquer can spoil the entire charm of the aroma of the coffee masterpiece.
So materials are ready. Start. First background. Paper is moisturizing clean water, and then a wide brush or a piece of synthetic trimming of coffee, in my example is quite evenly. Let's wait a little while the background slightly snacks. Now in the most common, stains, we indicate the composition of the picture. From light to dark, from common to particular. More details and saturation of the tone. The latter drawing goes a thin brush for a dry pattern. To obtain light highlights, you can use such a move: on the coffeeness from top to drop water and quickly stick with a napkin - there will be a light spot.
Here are phased photos of the bouquet of sunflowers (the last image is scanned, so the difference in color):
And here are some more masterpieces:
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