Georgeta Blanaru - Coffee Painting

I came across a painter Georgeta Blanaru. She is a self taught, talented artist in the classical field. She paints with watercolors, acrylics ,oils etc. as well as in the modern field of digital painting. She likes to explore new mediums for painting, in her quest she found what a great medium pure coffee is, when mixed with water.

She has done a series of coffee paintings with the theme of Jazz. The above painting is of a gramophone which is playing music (presumably jazz) and a box with a book on top. The background is of a white and reddish/brown checkered tile floor and a lightly stippled brown wall. The typography read 'Jazz' and the J overlaps the a and the word is written in a brush stroke style which varies in thickness. The warm colour scheme in relation to coffee gives the jazz theme extra enhancement as jazz has been commonly connoted with high quality coffee and coffee shops.

Here is another painting from her coffee jazz series of a man dressed in vintage clothing wearing a hat and shades whilst playing a double bass. There is part of a music score flowing behind him with the 5 lines and musical notes you see in sheet music. The same typography is used for the word Jazz again. The background has a washy style with blooms of darker and lighter shades of brown where the coffee is more or less concentrated. Unlike Josephine Ryan's work Blanaru doesn't make use of any splash, splatter, drip or ring stain techniques and instead keeps her strokes and shapes very clean and distinct.

This painting has more texture to it as it's been painted onto a canvas or canvas paper unlike the previous two which looked more like it was painted on regular paper. The lines for each petal of the lotus is dark and thick whilst the colour of the lotus petals itself are not much different to the background. The dark thick outline separates the tones and shading of the lotus petals from the background giving it a more definitive shape and form.

This next painting was also painted on canvas, given the texture. The style of this has a more washy fill making the water and the sky looks soft and gentle, resembling watercolour style paintings. She has worked well with inversion in this image as she has drawn two turtles facing each other that look the same, only one is draw with a dark outline and the other is drawn with a dark fill. The long dark grass in the foreground create a silhouette and depth of field and range within the image.