Morning Coffee

This painting was a lot of fun to work on.  It might have been the smell of coffee grounds while painting, but whatever it was it was a fun time creating this one.  I tried a lot of new things with this painting that I hadn't done before and I wasn't sure how it would work out. All in all, I feel like experience wise, I learned a great deal about layers and texture. The overall tone of this painting was in the red or rusty tone.  I was really enjoying the Burnt Senna and Deep Yellow and some variants of brown.

So, what did I do in this painting...

Well, I created my own type of spray paint with little spray bottles. I bought, probably too many little spray bottles, and starting filling them with paint.  You see me use white, brown, and yellow in the video.  Always to layer, but sometimes to add some geometric interest and sometimes to brighten sections. I also dripped some High Flow paint, and some more self made drippable paint. 

The most fun part was how I was going to add another textural element to the piece. I had been toying around with the idea of sand, but what I had turned out to be a bit too coarse. I turned to coffee.  I don't drink coffee, but my inlaws were in visiting recently and we had some left over coffee.  Nothing goes to waste when your an artist looking for new and creative ways to add interest and save money. 

At this point I had added many layers and the background was looking pretty neat but thought that it needed some structure overall.  First, I started working the sprays to get a few curves.  This was interesting because depending on the density of the paint in the spray bottles I got different effects.  When there was more paint it in the water and paint ratio, it came out a stream instead of a spray.  Next, I mixed the coffee with some paint to get it textured, then i added some red coffee textured lines of different sizes and used black coffee textured lines to add a shadow affect. 

I have to say the smell was amazing the whole time.  Well, if you've gotten this far, take a load off and watch it in action! 

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