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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 -----

Spring Coffee

Well, you can't tell it is spring here in exotic Toledo, Ohio. I'm seriously thankful for having a hot cup of coffee. It is lightly snowing and the wind is howling. I thought March was supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb? Nothing lamblike about this weather.

I can't remember a March being so cold. Where is this global warming I keep hearing about? (no letters on that one, I'm a tree hugger too).

I've been drinking Bello Montana Espresso Blend to keep the chill off. I'm experimenting with painting WITH coffee. On the odd occasion we don't finish a pot quick, fast and in a hurry (and believe me that ain't too often), I've been using the left over coffee as a kind of watercolor. I've been playing with different blends of beans and strengths of coffee. When a couple dry, I'll scan them and post them so you can see what I am talking about. I know painting with foodstuffs is nothing new (heck the first paints were and still are made from basic plant pigments) but coffee has been a good deal of fun to learn to paint with and to be honest, I just can't stand to waste anything!
And let's face it, even coffee this good is still not the greatest reheated or cold. (Except my partner LOVES cold coffee with all sorts of creams and sugars and whipped creams on top - and since he is skinny as a rail, he can get away with it).

Okay off to paint and will write more later when I'm not freezing here!

JoLynn

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Sunday, March 05, 2006 -----

Easter Beans

Wanted share the Easter Beans with you. What? You never heard of Easter Beans?

These went over so big last year, I've had a request for tons already this year from coffee loving freaks like me. These are real Bello Montana fresh roasted coffee beans and they are painted using different paints, and then covered with a heavy coating or three of high gloss varnish. I had to experiment for a while to find something that would allow the paint to stick because the natural oils in the coffee beans originally caused the paint to peel up in one solid piece.

Finally after much cursing and peeling paint, i found a method that worked and these are a big hit every Easter.

I love to paint on strange things, well canvas too, but also I have sold artworks painted on liberated sugar packets from various restraurants, coffee beans, tea packets, found paper sacks, wooden boards I find in my yard (I live on a major thoroughfare) and discarded cardboard boxes.... yes indeed - I will paint on anything.

Oh yeah, i got this free package of coffee filters from my last Drugstore.com order, and they have this "Diamond Deal" thing where if you spend so much you get free items, well I got coffee filters. But from the time that I ordered til my order arrived, my coffee pot went kaput and I had to get a new one, forgetting I had filters on the way and when they arrived they didn't remotely fit the new coffee pot.
So I'm going to complain my free coffee filters don't work? Heck no!
Something new to paint on!!!


this one resides in a private collection as does this one:


and this one



And now i'm off to make myself a "cuppa coffa" and go paint some more!

~J


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