Coffee Sparrow

 I figured I'd show a WIP of a painting I did yesterday. I felt like painting using pretty much just coffee.
Yes, coffee.
And of course I painted a sparrow!!
So, here's a walk through. The finished painting is at the end.

The sketch. A little difficult to see, sorry. I start all my paintings with a pencil sketch.

 The first layer of coffee. Everything gets  a coffee wash.

 Darkening up the brown areas. This is around 5 washes of coffee.

 Another 10 or so washes of coffee, and adding the black watercolor.

More coffee, more black watercolor. Almost done!

The finished painting!! Painted exclusively with coffee and black watercolor! Yay!
Part of A Study in Sparrows.

New Artwork

Ah, yes. A couple of new paintings from me. First up, "Fuck you, depression."

So, yeah. Self portrait. The wording in the lower right corner says "His eye is always on the sparrow". Yep. Symbolism and shit.

Second, "Will you guide me?" Ha! More symbolism. Fox and sparrow are my spirit animals.

Both are colored pencil, watercolors, coffee and ink on watercolor paper.

Hooray for new art!

Fuck off depression!

New Art!!!

This is my latest painting. Took me about 2 hours on Saturday, from start to finish. It's coffee, watercolors, ink and colored pencil on watercolor paper.

A self portrait entitled "Empty. . ."
I'm very happy with how it turned out. And, as it's a very personal painting, I will be keeping it! Probably will be hanging in my studio shortly . . . .

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