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Artist Maria Aristidou Uses Coffee To Give Painting A Whole New Meaning

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Commercial artist, illustrator and cake designer Maria A. Aristidou has a very interesting take on painting. She took her regular cup of brewed coffee, a paintbrush and created something spectacular.

 

Instead of using ordinary colors, she dipped her brush in five types of coffee brews and put together some truly spectacular paintings. From pop culture icons to animals and even robots, with hues of russet, tan, auburn and brown.

 

Maria said that she did her first coffee illustration by accident, but the results were so good that she decided to create more. She enjoys making coffee paintings of some of her favorite people, characters and animals.

 

To create this effect, she uses water paper and up to five different coffee blends, depending on the subject. Let’s have a look at her artworks.

 

A caffeine edition of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

https://instagram.com/p/4RpW0iwHWe/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

Ta da!

https://instagram.com/p/4RlmapQHfn/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

 

We want this sketch of Pinkie Pie in our rooms!

https://instagram.com/p/4M7ojhwHRS/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

 

Is that an Americano that he’s having? Such swank!

https://instagram.com/p/4JknedQHSI/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

 

Oh my! That crazy detailing!

https://instagram.com/p/3_yzmqQHY5/?taken-by=ma_aris

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Seriously? We couldn’t give that amount of detail with a pencil!

https://instagram.com/p/3r31UqQHWL/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

Ok we need a moment here to hyperventilate.

https://instagram.com/p/3vu9DcwHe8/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

 

Something’s fishy in here. Oh wait, that’s just coffee.

https://instagram.com/p/3cVSZZwHaw/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

 

Wait, that’s not print? *faints*

https://instagram.com/p/2wn4pnwHRz/?taken-by=ma_aris

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Things like this make the world beautiful.

https://instagram.com/p/2rvw3nwHdw/?taken-by=ma_aris

 

 

Can’t get enough of the beauty, can you? Follow the artist on Instagram to get your regular dose of coffee!

Binge eater by day and binge watcher by night, Ankita is fluent in food, film, and Internet. When she’s not obsessing over the hottest trends, tacos, and the perfect author’s bio, you can find her under a pile of Jeffery Archer’s novels or looking for the nearest wine shop.