Thursday 7 November 2019

A Slightly Different Medium,

is used in these paintings,


by an artist who is totally untrained! 

 Nuria Salcedo is a self-taught artist who uses coffee to paint incredibly detailed illustrations and portraits of celebrities,

 a trained architect, Nuria Salcedo never took art classes, She always liked drawing, but her skills are only the result of many hours of practice, her studying Architecture in school, and whatever tips she picked off online,

  the young Spanish artist was inspired to use coffee as a medium for her art after coming across the works of Maria A. Aristidou, another artist famous for her beautiful coffee paintings,

 She had been experimenting with many styles and mediums, but somehow coffee just seem to suit her best and she’s been painting with it ever since, 

 “At that point, I needed something that made me stand out from the rest of artists because I was not good enough with colored pencils or with other traditional techniques so I decided to give coffee a try,” Nuria told Sprudge Magazine,

 . “I have always liked being creative and coffee gave me a lot of new possibilities. I fell in love with it after finishing my first piece and I have not stopped using coffee since then. I guess it is going to take me longer to become a great artist without that background but with faith and passion—and coffee—I hope to achieve a great level one day.”

 photographs by Nuria Salcedo/Instagram, what magical paintings, all the more so as the artist has had no training at all.


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