Okay, check these out. Was at Irwin’s today enjoying an enormous cinnamon roll with my daughter. We looked up at the wall next to us and noticed some paintings in suspiciously familiar brown tints. Yes, these are paintings done in espresso. Two are copies of Van Goghs (did he drink a lot of coffee?) and one is an original composition. Wow, makes you wonder with so much of the stuff around, what else could we do with it? If you got desperate could you soak these in hot water and get a decent cup of joe out of them?
The artist is Karen Eland and the series is entitled “Espresso on Paper”.
Is that Starry Night? Way cool.
Which one is “original”? They all look like extant Van Goghs.
The street-scene on the bottom is the original. Click the small image to download a larger one, you can just make out the tag below the painting. I'm sure Karen Eland would be flattered you thought it was a Van Gogh!
the street scene is a Van Gogh copy as well:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/images/Bra…
I'd say the self-portrait is the most original among the three since Van Gogh's self-portrait holds a painting palette instead of coffee mug:
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/self_por…
Oops… the first link was broken:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/g…
Thanks for the clarification! I was just going by what was on the tag, which said “original”.
I believe the original vs copy has to do with the painting be the first actually painting or a reprint of an old painting she had done. If you go in and look, you can see brush marks and paper on the “originals” but it LOOKS like a photo copy when it says “copy”. There is also a heavy price jump between the two.