The Organic Painter: Learn to paint with tea, coffee, embroidery, flame, and more; Explore Unusual Materials and Playful Techniques to Expand your Cre [Paperback]

Bored with the same old paints? The Organic Painter introduces innovative techniques for using non-traditional "paint" derived from materials like coffee, tea, and alcohol, to encourage freedom and expression!

Traditional art supplies will only take you so far! Sometimes you need to try something completely new and different. That's whereThe Organic Painter comes in. With a little guidance, you'll soon be painting with everyday materials you'd never considered as an artistic medium.

This inspiring book gives you all the techniques and ideas you'll need to boost your creativity,learn natural paint-making, and be more resourceful with your art materials. Imagine the unique things you'll make when youcreate natural paints from coffee,tea, embroidery and flame.

Each project in this guide book comes with instructions on how to make the paint, and also includesexperiments and explorationsfor you to try. Plus, a simple painting accompanies every featured material and combines it with other materials or techniques, so you'll never lack inspiration.

Working primarily with calligraphy inks, graphite, and liquids, such as tea,Carne Griffiths’ fascination with drawing focuses on the creation and manipulation of the drawn line. Images explore human, geometric and floral forms, in a combination of both literal and abstract translation and in response to images and situations encountered in daily life. Images are recorded in a dreamlike sense onto the page, where physical boundaries are unimportant. His work creates a journey of escapism which focuses on scenes of awe and wonder, projecting a sense of abandonment and inviting the viewer to share and explore this inner realm.
 
Originally from Liverpool, Griffiths graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in MaidstonlS~