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This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realise it is play. The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. I’m here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away. When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Coffee Trees - Flow-ers of energy

From the Non-physical, you created you, and now from the physical, you continue to create, and we are nothing if we are not Flow-ers of Energy. We must have objects of attention, that are ringing our bells, in order to feel the fullness of who we are, flowing through us, for the continuation of All-That-Is. That is what puts the eternalness in eternity.
- Abraham-Hicks

A daily practice of sketching and painting gives you a chance to exercise the big three P's - practice, practice, practice!


"Trees - Flow-ers of Energy - Coffee on Bockingford 300gsm

Some more painting with coffee, this is totally exciting! The back-ground was stained with tea first (black and very strong!) you can see it peeping through in the three corners) continuing with coffee when the tea was totally dry. Unlike the coffee, the tea is staining, so doesn't lift easily and takes over-painting and layering like a dream.

This was done exclusively with no sketching beforehand - I just followed the flow of the colours and, trees, being one of my favourite subjects, always seem to appear before my eyes! I also added a bit of Cadmium Red for interest and some Intense Green for a couple of leaves. The dark parts are where the coffee dried to a rich, glossy sheen on the original, but doesn't show up on the scan.

Done on a thick Bockingford 300gsm watercolour paper - 12" x 8"

6 comments:

  1. I'm loving your coffee paintings Maree - I bet they smell nice too! :0)

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  2. Thank you Sandra, and yes, the aroma is delicious!

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  3. Amazing painting. I didn't know you can creat such nice art with coffie!

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  4. Hi Frank, yes, I treat it just like watercolours and it's lovely to work with! thank you for visiting my blog!

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  5. A wonderful series of paintings, Maree! I love the experimenting with the shades of coffee. Imagine a little book made out of hand-made paper (elephant dung paper?)and filled with these lovely images!

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  6. Hi Marie! I've got some wonderful hand-made paper sketchbooks and to my utter dismay they don't take the coffee treatment well at all! Soaks right through to the back! The coffee is very 'liquid', unlike watercolour that one can use with less water... Pleased you like these, thank you very much!

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