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Mocha Lisa: creative artists copying famous paintings with coffee

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Mocha Lisa: creative artists copying famous paintings with coffee

Mocha Lisa: creative artists copying famous paintings with coffee

Following the Dada artists Marcel Duchamp paintings the Mona Lisa with a beard, the American artist Karen Eland also used coffee to create a kind of Mocha Lisa, the funny but true creative art caused strong reaction.

If you think the Mocha Lisa’s bright spot lies in mocha coffee in Mona Lisa’s hand, it would be wrong, in fact, this picture is completely painted with coffee.

Karen spent nearly seven months in painting the Mocha Lisa. She uses fresh-baked coffee to mix with water as the paint, painting different shades of shadow. Mocha Lisa is not the first time that Karen paint with coffee, she has also produced a number of “coffee version” world famous paintings, including the engagement portrait of Prince William. and Kate, her coffee art has ever been sold at 15,000 dollars, she is confident in the future market.

Cullen said he has been a coffee lover, her using coffee as a pigment in painting was inspired by an experience in 1998. At that time, she was creating watercolor in a a coffee shop cup in Tulsa, Oklahoma City. Different shades of the color of coffee inspired her inspiration, coffee art was born.

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