Upcycled Coffee Sacks

Click the picture to visit original website. I got all these from Etsy.

Coffee Watercolor

"Coffee Connoisseur"

By Angel Sarkela-Saur

See more at: http://justcoffeeart.com/gallery.html

Nude in Watercolor, Cinnamon, Coffee & Curry

By Partick Bornemann

Charcoal & Coffee Rhino

Alright this last one isn't actually painted with coffee, but what's cuter than a squirrel sipping a cup of coffee? See more adorable animal art by Ontario's own Diedre Wicks.

Finally, the "My Coffee Got Cold So I Made an Owl with It"

http://imgur.com/t5ciV

Some of My Stuff

Please forgive the crappy quality, I took these with my phone:

Aroma Festival--The Rocks, Sydney, Australia

     The Rocks Aroma Festival: Sydney, Australia. Massive coffee cup mosaics featuring da Vinci's Mona Lisa (3,604 coffee cups), and Marilyn Monroe, who took a whopping 5,200.
     The construction of the portraits incorporated several shades, as you can see. This effect was achieved by mixing different ratios of coffee to milk. Ingenious...
     Obviously, such a masterpiece can't be left out too long, or it would go bad. I wonder if they drank the coffee when they dissembled her?
     Probably not.

Portrait Composed of Coffee Rings by Red

     Get a load of this girl, Hong Yi, but she goes by Red: She's a bangin young painter who found herself in Shanghai without a damn thing to paint with. Lucky she is so resourceful. Having grown up in Malaysia and studied abroad in Australia and Holland, but until recently her Chinese roots remained a mystery.
     Her newfound fascination with China's rich culture and history inspired this massive portrait of Jay Chou, comprised entirely of coffee rings, and several others featuring iconic Chinese figures, including Yao Ming painted with a basketball, a Zhang Yimou made out of socks! When was the last time you made a masterpiece out of your laundry? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjwXbuLEYNA

Latte Leaf Tattoo?

     Alright you guys, don't be shy. You can comment. Please do, in fact I have a question for you, yes--You! You've been chosen!
     And your mission?
     Help me decide where the hell I ought to get my next tattoo: I'm thinking a latte leaf, creamy and espresso colors and fade into my skin tones kinda thing. Awesome right? Except, I have a compass on the back of my neck/upper back, and I'm not trying to get a tramp stamp, so probably just try to avoid my back altogether. That's my only condition. So... any ideas?
     Please please please! Interact with me, mystery internet users! Give me some goddamn ideas. That is all I ask.
     You can check out my little google barista icon, kinda what I'm talking about. Okay, sudden, possibly terrible idea... are you ready?
     Latte leaf quill, and ink, because it looks like a feather, sort of. Cute? Stupid?
     Input guys, I need input. I'm lost. I even briefly thought of adding a latte leaf to either side of my compass to extend like wings across my shoulders. Stupid, right? Or is it? I'm really asking.

Life is Like a Cup of Coffee

Life is Like a Cup of Coffee
Unknown Author

     A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
     Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
     When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
     Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
     Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.
     Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

One More Cup of Coffee

The White Stripes, boys and girls:

One more cup of coffee for the road.

One more cup of coffee 'fore I go...

To the valley below.

Espress Yourself

    Coffee is America's life force. It's the reason we get anything done, but above all else, coffee is our creative inspiration. It stimulates our minds more than any known legal substance.
     If you, like most Americans, are still struggling to "find yourself," do so over a cup of coffee.
     Doodle something spectacular on your napkin or cup.
     Doodle something stupid.
     Scribble the lyrics to a Smiths song.
     Scribble a masterpiece.
     Express yourself. Let the aroma of your coffee take over your mind. Immerse yourself in a thick creamy steam-induced dream.
     Coffee keeps artists afloat, over-caffeinated and inspired. Without the coffee industry there may be no art. Artists would have nowhere to hang their work, and nothing to wake them up in the morning to do it. So let us take a moment to appreciate the beautiful art born from these beans.

  By Johanna Basford

By Cheeming Boey

By Arkady Kim, Russian artist. Largest coffee-bean-mural worldwide. Constructed in Gorky Central Park in Moscow, took 12 days and a million coffee beans to make.

By Esther Horchner, German (or maybe French?) Illustrator. Naked Lady Tea Set. Very clever. Very cute.