Filipino artist paints with coffee

My website is powered by lots of coffee among others. Without coffee I couldn’t live.
Recently I got acquainted to a young Philippine artist who also likes coffee, but prefers tea as a drink. She uses coffee to paint. Her name is Sunshine Plata, also known as: Kapeng Mahiwaga ng Isang Diwata (mysterious coffee of a fairy).

I got her personal permission touse some pictures from her site to show my readers.
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While studying psychology to become a teacher, she got to know the ?easy life of a fine arts student?. It was then that she decided to become an artist painter. She has been painting before in oil and water color. [SinglePic not found]
Around the year 2000 there was an exhibition of the famous ?Riply?s believe it or not? museum in Manila. (I have seen that exhibition as well on one of my visits to the Philippines). She saw there a signature made with coffee of more than 100 years old. On that moment she saw the light and started thinking of using coffee as a painting medium. After some experiments with this medium, she?s mainly using Nescafe coffee powder, she has produced some really nice paintings so far. Her work is now permanently exposed in New York?s Riply museum and in lots of private collections. She?s had some expositions already in Manila and is planning a new one soon.
Her device is LSD : Look, Smell, Discover the coffee.
Sunshine is mostly inspired by her dreams. She?s sketching them after waking up and work them out later.

Her goal is to let lots of people know about this fine and cheap medium to paint and to spread the art of painting to lots of people. Coffee is much cheaper than oil paint or water color and in almost all houses you can find coffee.

Sunshine knows that she isn?t the only ?coffee painter? in the world. There are a few more experimenting with this medium. I can only say that her work is vivid and spontaneous, and there for worth writing a post on my blog.
Sunshine likes to do more experiments with other kinds of medium to paint. Well, I think there?s enough natural colors in all sort of materials around the house, so I?m sure she will find one or more soon.

Take a look at her website for more info and more pictures: here

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Earlier comments:

sunshine plata
d1wata.wordpress.com
sunshine.plata@gmail.com
Submitted on 2009/06/28 at 3:41pm
hello jan!!!
Thank u so much for posting a blog about my art!!! i am deeply honored! There?s absolutely nothing to edit by the way! I also love the way u had it written!
Is it alright if i paste ur blog link to my facebook page??? i just want my friends to see ur nice article (only if it?s alright).
Thank u once again!!! Keep writing and makin some lovely artworks!!!

Believe It Or Not,
-sunshine plata
(coffee painter)

Reply jan

Sunshine, Thanks for the compliment.
Of course you may post a link in your pages, no problem with that.
The more people know about my blog, the better.
Keep up painting with coffee, who knows you will also drink it one day?.

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Tom
retire.heyjoe.ph
fastcargoaz@yahoo.com
Submitted on 2009/06/29 at 6:24am

I?ve done some coffee painting myself. Mostly abstract like when I spill it on my napkin.

Seriously that is very interesting what she is able to do with coffee. She is a very skilled artist. I hope she will be very successful. Looks like she already is.

Reply jan

You should have kept these napkins !!!! maybe you could have sold them?..

Yes, It is very interesting what she is doing with coffee. It might take some time, but I?m sure she will be a great Filipino artist.

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roni
flickr.com/roniroa
roniroa@gmail.com
212.102.0.102 Submitted on 2009/07/11 at 4:36pm

wow!
is this the ?catholic? version of the buddhist?s sand mandala?
nice!

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