Tim Horton’s Coffee Painting

Begin Painting with Coffee Medium / Base:

A friend of mine sent me a youtube video recently of a woman who paints with coffee.  After watching it, I started to do my own research into ‘coffee painting’.  There are many, very gifted artists out there, who use coffee as a medium, and I invite you to check them out.

My very first Tim Hortons coffee painting was quite rough.  I used a cup of ‘Timmies’ regular roast (black).  Although any brand will do, I prefer to use my Tim Hortons blend, mixed with a slurry of light acrylic paint.

Tim Horton’s coffee and I, have a lot in common.

We were born the same year and we’re both Hamiltonians.

I have fond memories of trips to Timmies with my dad when I was young.  We’d go there on Saturday mornings.  We’d sit in the corner table of “store number 16”.  I’d look up at the painting of Tim himself on the wall next to the counter, and dad would tell me the story of the hockey player who had died in an accident, well before his time.

He’d puff away on his cigarette (I know eh?),   whistle a light tune, while we ‘people-watched’.  I’d have the usual, chocolate milk, or hot chocolate in a real china mug,  and a chocolate dip donut.  Sometimes, he’d get me a my favourite donut ~ a bowtie.  It was a super -duper hot-dog-bun-size donut, filled with real whipped cream, chocolate ganache on top, another dollop of whip cream, and a cherry on top.  But that was an EXTRA Special treat, because bow-ties cost a whole 35 cents.

I’d felt that it was an over-indulgence.  But dad would sometimes buy them for me, and it was great.

The following is a series of Tim Hortons Coffee paintings that I’ve painted with regular roast coffee, as a base.  I’ve mixed it with a light acrylic in some cases, to get the deeper richer colours of dark brown and some of the black, etc..

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I also love my cats.  Domestic, wild and of course my TiCats.  What better mascot to paint with coffee?  Feel free to write to me if you’re interested in any of my work and I will respond promptly.

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