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An interesting way to just simply decorate, have fun or express yourself is with coffee. Right now you are probably asking yourself “How can you decorate a coffee?” Many people like chefs are able to. This gives coffee a nice presentation look for the customer and probably tastes good also. Usually, they have the coffee and they add milk to it and chocolate to make shapes. I have seen videos were they make shapes of dogs or like stars. It is pretty amazing because it hard t have it so still because if you make a rough move then the coffee’s figure would not come out. Also it is amazing how they just pour the milk and it creates and image when combining it with chocolate. In order to create images they use like a toothpick and move it towards chocolate to make a figure. When it done you see both colors like light brown which s the coffee with milk and the darker brown which is chocolate. Sometimes when doing it you can observe how they clean the toothpick constantly that way it doesn’t mess up the rest of the coffee. By cleaning it doesn’t give it a such dirty look because sometimes when you don’t clean it probably drags the chocolate into the lighter part of the coffee and can leave an unexpected design. It is an interesting way to do art just as painting or coloring in a paper, but instead is on coffee. I guess on coffee, it’s way harder because first of all, its something liquid and it moves, unlike paper stays still. Also space is smaller and if your design doesn’t fit then you have to start all over. On the other hand, paper is bigger and you have more space to draw on or paint and if you run out of space then you could just add another piece of paper and glue them together, but in coffee if you out another cup next to it to finish your design it would come out weird. Coffee art is difficult, but really interesting and the designs turned out to be incredible.
This videos demonstrate coffee art designs.
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“Go finish your drawing.” These are words usually said to me by my art teacher. “It’s finished,” I say. “No it is not.” “What is it missing?” I ask him. “Color, it’s missing color, he replies.” I roll my eyes and go back down to sit. I grab the markers and color pencils and stare at them trying to figure out the color that will fit the best because the colors will never look the same as the ones from the original picture. I take the color pencil in my hand and barely color the spaces. It so light, you can barely see it. “Now I’m done,” I say. “Oh come on! Add some color I can barely see that. Plus, there are some white spaces,” he answers. I sit back down and stare at my picture. “I don’t like it with color. I like black and white drawings,” I mumbled. I kept staring at my picture and all I could hear was the clock ticking. Then I thought to myself, ” Color has ruined my drawing.” After a while, I took the color pencil in my hand sharpened it and started coloring harder. With only ten minutes left to class, I had finally finished my drawing. “How about now? Is this better?” I asked him. “It’s pretty good.” Then I asked myself, “Pretty good?! It took me so much time and even though I didn’t want to color it I colored it only because you told me to and that all you say!?” I was surprised by his reply. I was even surprised at how my drawing came out because it wasn’t that bad with color. The bell rang and I took the drawing with me. When I got home I should it to me mother and she liked it. She grabbed my drawing and placed it in a folder. My mother usually takes care of all the drawings I make. She even has the ones when I was little. After that day, I began to like color. Later on, I tried other technique by using pastels. By now, pastels are my favorite and I use them every single time I make a drawing and color it. When I take a pastel in my hand is gives me a feeling because they are so smooth and they come in a variety of colors. The best part about pastels is that you don’t need to color one space with the pastel the only thing I do is outline my drawing with the pastel I want. Then I run my finger along the border pushing the color towards the center. It gives it an effect of smooth picture. Pastels are very similar to chalks. Sometimes a grab a black piece of paper and draw with pastels because the color are more noticeable the on the white one. I think that if it hadn’t been because of my art teacher, I would probably, today, still be drawing black and white pictures. I decided to post this video because you can see how this person paints with pastels and at the end his drawing is amazing. Also you can see how he uses his finger to spread the coloring.
This is a drawing I made for my sister on her birthday.
