Thursday 15 March 2012

Coffee Cup Stain Painting


Hong Yi is a 26 year old Malaysian artist that has recently caught the public's eye when she created a portrait of Taiwanese star Jay Chou made of coffee stains.
 To watch Hong Yi, aka OhiseeRed paint with a coffee cup visit this link Jay Chou Portrait
Red's painting was inspired by a song where it starts with lifting a coffee cup off of a saucer. This is also how her video starts. Through the song it goes through a story of a girl traveling in time and falling in love with Jay Chou. Her coffee portrait portrays this through the tones of the painting. This portrait took 12 hours to complete and proved itself quite the challenge. Depending on how concentrated the coffee was it could bleed too much or not enough into the paper. As well since it was made of coffee, each ring is a permanent mark.
Yi has also done paintings with other objects such as a basketball to make a painting of Yao Ming.
Pictures from:http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/03/coffee-stain-portrait/

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