Painting with Coffee & Wine

July 27, 2017 by Nancy

Painting with wine

Painting with both wine and coffee offers a new palette of colors and textures.

Eucalyptus Leaves painted with different wines show the variety of colors available. The Pinot Noir leaves at the top of the image show the different colors created by layering coffee and wine.

What to expect when you start painting with wine and coffee.

Painting with wine is much easier than traditional watercolor.
There is a wide range of colors found in painting with wine.
The color ranges of coffee and wine compliment each other.
Coffee and wine can be layered to add new color and texture to a painting. Start with the first layer in coffee or in wine and just keep adding from there. Layer by layer it gets richer and more expressive.
It really is possible to relax and have fun painting.
You will discover an unexpected use of left-over coffee and wine.
For coffee painting I like Espresso and for painting with wine it’s Pinot.

Try Painting with Wine

Coffee & Wine Painting
Pinot Noir and eucalyptus leaves are used as a guide for painting with coffee or painting with wine. It is not necessary to drink wine or drink coffee in the painting process but it does help

You’ve been drinking it, cooking with it and now you can paint with wine. Let me introduce you to a whole new way of looking at wine and art. You will Amaze yourself & have some fun!

Painting with Wine event at EV Lounge in San Anselmo. This was the first wine painting workshop and it was a success. A unique art event for San Anselmo.

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Coffee Oil & Water

May 10, 2017 by Nancy

Nancy Cicchetti & Eileen Ormiston

Get A Grip – SOLD -coffee painting of roots.

The show was well attended and received. And, I sold a painting – Get a Grip. Excitement was added to the evening as the sun went down and continuous slides were projected on the back wall displaying works from all three artists. The slide show also included artwork that was not in the show.

The EV Lounge is a unique showroom for art and we are happy to see it become an available space for more artists in San Anselmo.

I continue to be amazed by how fascinated people are about painting with coffee. It looks like there will be a coffee painting workshop at EV Lounge in the future.

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New Art

April 14, 2017 by Nancy

Downtown San Anselmo Art show. Yes!

San Anselmo merchants are getting better and more open to sharing space for local artists to exhibit their work. Nancy Cicchetti and Eileen Ormiston have been my favorite art buddies for many years and it is a treat, and honor, to be showing my Coffee Paintings with them. This will just be one evening but I am really looking forward to it.

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Squarespace again…

December 22, 2016 by Nancy

The time has come again for me to shake it up and see what develops. One thing for sure is I don’t give up. That is just a dead-end and not really what’s going on. I will stay with my coffee painting and I will stay with my website design. I’m still very excited about both. So, I designed a new Website Design for Artists flyer to put up in ArtWorks Downtown and wait for the phone to start ringing.

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Cyber Pencil • The Fine Art of Website Design

March 2, 2016 by Nancy

One of my Little-perks from my coffee painting dialog is “If you can draw a stick figure- you can draw a tree.” Painting with coffee is an excellent way to break down inhibitions — blocks.

CyberPencil.com It is still a website for artists. I haven’t given up even though I’ve been tempted for so long.
It’s not WordPress, it’s not Squarespace and it’s not even Dreamweaver. I’m using Adobe Muse.
Perhaps this will finally be what all of my testing has come to be. My first website specifically created for artists has been launched. I like how hearing launched makes me feel like this has kind of been rocket science. That helps me rationalize all of the time I have spent spinning my wheels while I trying to figure things out or—jut to try not give up entirely. I want to pause and acknowledge myself for staying with this challenge for so long. Yes! This obsession has been fueled by an ongoing desire to create websites or web-presence for creative people. It still needs more clarity about seeing all creative people as artists – even if they don’t know it (Yet) about themselves.

My primary focus is Art and I believe the Internet is a One-of-a-Kind place for exposure. My deepest belief is in the artistic abundance that is within all of us. It can be released and and expressed. I want to bring this out.

The tag-line for my website is Website Design for Creative People just like you. I’m not saying everyone needs a website but I do want to draw more creativity out of people.

Working with people in my coffee painting workshops proved to me that his can be done and enjoyed. The hardest part is the first step – just staring with something, anything, and accepting that it might not be what you want to first see. But, that’s when you begin to move it and get involved. It will become more.

Rattle your cage — get you out of your box. Start with something simple. Doodle. Make mistakes. You can even erase if you want to.

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Now it’s Adobe Muse and WordPress

December 11, 2015 by Nancy

I’m feeling like I just made my way around another blind corner that was beginning to look like it was going to be impossible. Now it feels like I’m sitting comfortably next to a Cornerstone. I made it!!! And, yes, reminding myself not to get too comfortable because Things Change. In fact if they don’t I know I begin to wonder about too many of the wrong things. But I have been getting really sick of focusing on computers, tech help and what’s the best move for Website Design. Those amazing time consuming things that can fill an hour, day → week or month. Maybe it’s over for awhile.

Now the question is – Will there be more Coffee Paintings?

I never expected that part of the solution would be yet another Website Design platform but now I have been introduced to Adobe Muse and it’s got a familiar grip on me. Among other things I never expected are my new (used) iMac which seems to have come with 24 hour tech support. Not only do I have a new computer but the original owner has offered his help with all of my questions about computers and all software connected to Website Design. I mean, WordPress, Photoshop, Muse – it seems like Anything I want to know at this point.

Now that I have the comfort of Instruction and am more confident in exploring WordPress a little deeper – my new comparison is with Adobe Muse. SquareSpace has clearly lost any chance it once had. I am at least happy I experimented with it and the Coffee Painting site I made with it will still be available for a while longer.

One more thing is that I finally understand how to set up a page with an image that can be enlarged. That’s the reason the two images are posted here.

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