How hard is it to use coffee to paint compared to normal watercolor paint?
A.: First of all, the texture of the coffee is a challenge. It has more elastic properties than normal paint. It is stickier when you apply it with the brush. You have to use the right amount of water to dilute the coffee right on the paper for the lighter brown or whiter areas. It was also harder to control the lines, color tones and the flow of liquid on the paper. Further more, coffee also when it dried displayed glittering flakes in itself and left unwanted traces of this in the paintings. I had to use special techniques to control these flakes on the paper. Another big problems was that after the coffee paintings are completed the painting can mold easily. Furthermore, the color on the paintings can peel off from the paper. Through years of experimenting, I found ways to overcome these problems but it was not easy. Q4: If coffee is so hard to paint with, why do you continue to do so? A.: I kept on trying because it seemed like a great challenge for me. Coffee gave a unique effect
