Simple
Medium: Morning coffee on arches paper to music.
Image size: 195 x 593mm
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posted by Anonymous at 8:32 AM
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Medium: Morning coffee on arches paper to music.
Image size: 195 x 593mm
Select thumbnail on left to enlarge image. Detail included.
134 Comments:
How simple was that! What type of coffee was I drinking? Which piece of music was I listening to?
I love the design and rich colors. Did you spill the coffee:) No, really nice.
Ha! I love it. I wish I was that creative with media/ums. You and the Unknown using your bodily fluids... (unless you drink tea of course!)
I think you were drinking some kind of "Jackson Pollack" brew and listening to The Flight of the Bumblebee. Great concept on the use of materials. Do more.
Spilling the coffee would have been much less simple to clean up Teri C :)
Ewwwwwwwww Andrea .... the coffee was simply BEFORE swallowing it!
Thanks Cosmos - great choice of coffee and music! Have lots more like this with other kitchen edibles but simply can't be bothered posting them :)
Yummy! I think it was a coffee nudge while listening tot the White Stripes!
love
Great work - simple, beautiful. Have you been watching/reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha'? It reminds me of japanese caligraphy...
Oooo I love the White Stripes and I REALLY love this piece. It has 'gasp' inspired me to get off the computer and paint!Pollack and The Rite of Spring would be more like it...
White Stripes with a coffee nudge for Unknown :)
Might try green tea next A Different Fish!
Thanks Gabriella Travaline! Have FUN!!
wow... :-o
... wait a moment please... i'm trying to change my face to normality...
wow... :-0
I LOVE IT! Great illo!
Taking A Line For A Walk.
Beautiful.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. -- Charles Mingus
Wow, that's really pretty! The design is so balanced...
Thanks Maria Antunes. Simple facial expressions create less lines :)
Compliment from who is an expert at taking lines for a walk himself Shane :)
Pretty means NOTHING. Can't get simpler than that Alexa Brett. Thanks for note on balance :)
I say you were listening to aerobic workout music. The coffe was doing it's warm-up arches & stretches :D
mmm, love the lines and texture
whatever it was, it was good music and good coffee
That drawing to resemble an japanese picture.I love this! Great !
i think you are listening to enya because it seems like your body and hands swayed while drinking your coffee-no idea what coffee you are drinking
Hhehee, can see the coffee doing that now Tony! This is calm for me believe it or not :)
Thanks Draconas - you're right!!
Thanks Marc ... multi-lingual marks :)
Enya is calming Isay! Maybe there is rum in my coffee :)
Caffeinated calligraphy! Creative. :)
For some reason I didn't pick up the coffee vibe. It felt Asian to me when I first saw it. Once I saw the title, I got what you were doing. Either way, it's lovely. It has a flow to it and the colors and lines appeal to me. Beautiful!
beautiful elegant and simple painting!! Love it!!
Great piece!
I think it was an Irish Coffee with extra whisky and the music was a waltz but the whisky had gone to your head...
Hheheee thanks Madretz and thank you Alina Chau and Blue!
I should have been drinking the coffee instead of painting with it Aravis - the coffee vibe is therefore missing because half asleep ;)
Hmmmm, the words Irish, whisky and coffee in the same same sentence make me think of coffee going to my feet Caroline!! :)
this one is just morning bliss ;) i can just see it flowing now!
Ah ha so you drew this one with your naked feet dipped in coffee which was why the music was so important... all makes sense now...
Wow!!!!!!
Me gusta mucho!! Parece caligrafía. Muy expresivo. Felicidades!!
Beso!
Wish my mornings were really that blissful Mustashrik. Plus flowing ... hahahahaaaa :)
Um, nearly Caroline ... I drank another few cups of coffee later and won't tell about the naked part ... whee hee ....
It does look a little like handwriting, Laura :) Thanks! Kiss :)
I love mark making on paper with different tools and mediums. I simply could turn this into a calligraphic piece. ;) Hmmm I'll say french roast and jazz.
simply brilliant!
Very innovative! In light of recent bushfires this reminds me of our scarred landscape, burnt gum leaves (coffee marks) and charcoaled branches (black marks). Big tick.
Hmmm French Roast and Jazz sound like a positive way to start the day Toni Kelly! Leave my simple lines alone ... it still says and reads as something; just universal and handrawing instead of writing :)
Thanks Ginger *:)
The big tick Detlef - *ouch* they are difficult to rid. All ran out of the fires into suburbia and yours jumped me! Thanks, there is an Australian flavour :)
this has a beautiful asian influence! So beautiful!!!
Stunning - epitomises simplicity very eloquently!
Wonderful!!!! I love it so much!
The only influence was good coffee and music. Oh and who, where and when - ValGalArt :)
Don't want to epitomise anything Marie, but thanks anway :)
Glad you love Misty Eyed Art! :)
a lot of character in those brushstrokes
it looks like it was fun to draw
This reminds me of koi swiming in a pond...beautiful!
I find it mesmerising, and makes me feel like I'm looking right in close to the coffee to see its superstrings moving around to the music. I'm a tea drinker mostly, don't know about different coffees - I keep a jar for visitors. Music - how about the dawn chorus?
It was lots of fun, calming and rewarding Andrea :)
Ooooh, yes can see the koi now Kata0nik! My coffee drops were actually ponds :)
Morning Johnnynorms:) Dawn chorus is the best music for breakfast!! Will be back, have to feed the magpies ...
I can smell the grounds...black Colombian with Tom Waits in the background!
You were listening to "Give Booze A Chance" by the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band. The coffee you used come from the secret coffee beans of Wigga Wagga where they're bigger. You put parrots feet in it and make them walk up and down strips of paper. Unlikely though. This is sprightly and twixy, celebratory I think. ..:::o
Now THAT'S more like it Lee! Where are you hiding ... in an Anonyhouse cupboard?
WHY are you pretending to be Anonymous Modroom??? Is it because YOU are listening to "Give Booze A Chance" by the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band and drinking coffee WITH wigga wagga in it??? The parrot's feet are YOURS!
Was'nt me unless I was sleep-walking which I'm doing now. Sssshhhh. ...:::d
I knew you were Chinese in another life!!!!! Nice calligraphy! :o)
this is brilliant. i love the movement in this.
one of your best.
You can't just astral project all over the place and I REALLY put my parrot feet down when it comes to jumping in and out of bodies when you choose to!!! I want Anonybody back!
How did you know that MerlinPrincesse? Have you been hiding in the past GhostAnonyhouseCupboard???
Thank you Catnapping ... means a lot :)
I have some intuitions.... Your drawing looks like a Chinese calligraphy. ;o) OH!And I was a Chinese too in another life, sister.
It is very beautiful and "simple", but has some complexity about it too. It breathes.
nice concept! try with red wine...
:)thanx for your comment;we were a nice rowing pair, indeed.
MerlinPrincesse, I have ENOUGH Sisters in this life ... let's keep our Chinese in the past, you'll confuse the others :)
Thanks Benconservato! How much coffee have you had? :)
OK Aynaku, I'll try the red wine after the green tea :)
very nice! love the colors
Very good works ! Very simple.
Morning coffee, that's one simple joy of my life, everytime enjoy it. It may have been some more complicated music you listened, watching the lines here. The coffe colours are fine.
I'm drinking coffee while looking at this. If I could conjure something this unique and tasty, while sipping my coffee , i'd be doing that right now-instead of sitting here commenting on yours.
A big fat mug of french roast-black, listening to Steely Dans-Aja.
Glad you like Joy Eliz and Crescendo!
Welcome fellow morning coffee enjoyer Katili :) Maybe I'm the complicated one and not the music :)
Hmmmm, you're teasing Hardwax ... don't deny a "big fat mug of french roast-black to Anja" is teasssing or at least coffeeeeeeing :) Dip that paintbrush!
either a combination of black coffee and Diamanda Galas or cappuccino and Mozart. hmm..
accidental art that was caused by being "under the influence"... simply a great idea! (oh love the irony in that and your art)
Anonymous - I smell a hot cup cappuccino with some jazz music playing in the background. Wonderfully done! It reminds me of some Japanese writings on handmade paper. A very bold and free spirited piece. Awesome!
Love your site...Add me to your list, and btw, your added to mine. Great work! Looks really good!
Definitely don't find Diamanda Galas difficult to swallow AtomicVelvetSigh, hope she doesn't mind sharing with Black Coffee. Might try swallowing combination Mozart with Cappuccino for breakfast and leave Diamanda for after dinner dessert};-}
(hhehhhehheeeeee)
Have been described as 'free spirited' on many occasions Wilnara - thanks for the compliment :)
Thanks Mike! I don't have a physical list ... only mental which is more simple :) You're on it and likewise };-}
Before I even read your description...I felt how musical your piece is! It is BEAUTIFUL!!
Thanks a lot for sharing such a beauty with us!
This works just amazingly well! Sort of sumi-e brushwork in an abstract expressionist style. There's a lot of power in the way the diagonals (of different weights and tone) are deployed - really nice to look at!
Are you one of those morning people?
Thanks to both TXArtGal and Apple-Pine :)
Thanks Ian T! This image has been digitally reproduced at a huge size that stretches horizontally across a wall. NO - no one is a morning person after they have kids (Shhhhhhhhhhhh hehhehheeeee)
Wow, these lines are alive! Beautiful!
Exquisite! Very lovely piece!
-steph
I keep trying to find a repeat or decypher the message ... I'm looking at my fruit tea bags in a new light as writing tools - in the meantime I see you tangoing with java.
E@monkeypaints
Hhehee, thanks Miragee :)
Thank you Steph!
Elaine - you have to look again when you first wake in the morning, or about to wake :) Tangoing with Java sounds fine!!
Fabulous use of line and color. More than just coffee flowed that morn.
I'm looking for my fortune by reading the tea leaves... Oh, but this was coffee. Harder to read. But what wonderful brush strokes here. Great artwork.
Wow, you really achieved a beautiful simplicity with these lovely lines! Gorgeous!
That looks like it was a whole lot of fun to do!!!
Oh. My…
Lovely, though effect was lost after I discovered that you have painted with it, but not indulged in it at the same time… coffee I mean. You were listening to something with hypnotic quality – what those things called – didgeridoo!!!
Did I say – it is lovely line work. Lily.
this is lovely and full of energy. great job!
What a fantastic abstract!! I want this for my pad! The browns and blacks from the coffee are wonderful (as is the composition). I'll bet this piece has a nice aroma as well. Bravo to you anonymous and humble one.
Oh I see Andrea/coloring out of lines, has already digressed into bad visuals. <: -0
I am dancing around to the music of your art already! It feels like falling, gracefully.
Very cool.
Makes me also think of leaves of trees, falling in the snow, in the US northeast.
The middle light brown looks like foot prints in the snow. Too much Flickr snow photos for me today, ya think?
Smooches,
The Tart
Hhheee everyone has woken on my Tuesday :) Thanks for all the positive comments Abbie, Twisselman (will do tea next), Amy Zaleski, Liz Jones and Jaimie!!!
Don't be dissapointed Lily ... I drank another cup of coffee when painting, just not the same as that painted onto the paper - but same coffee brew :) Ooooh digeridoo .... COULD BE! Thanks :)
Thanks Steve, oh ye of high opinion. Agree it is a good piece for pads :)
Are you saying you can't see Andrea's submission Jody because of Flickr? Could be a snow scene! Although I don't have snow at my house ... ever. Keep dancing :)
Nice work! I will take your 'simple' suggestion to heart! Thanks for the good words on my site!
wow - what a great idea - it looks so good too! very creative :D
You went "zen," too. Nice.
You are being simply nice Mike Thompson :)
Thank you PaulSketch :)
YES Roz Foster ... simple minds think alike :)
hi! your message is in my head!
very simple!!!!!!!
kisses!!
:)
Looks like a strong brew, I'd say you were drinking plunger coffee. As for music I think you were listening to the radio. I did happen to hear elton john twice on the radio this weekend, 'i guess thats why they call it the blues'...there must be something to that[?] it's a sign ;)
just a simple "hello" to australia while i am drinking my morning coffee. the best way to start a 'simple' day...
I've replied to Fred. ..::)
Careful with any messages you might see in my image Cecilia! Kisses are OK :)
Not long ago advanced from the plunger to a coffee machine Anthony Woodward :) Cheer up, get a machine and you'll no longer have the blues or plunge :)
Simple hello back to you Mareikestern :) About to eat a romantic valentine dinner .... and drink 'simple' wine };-}
But Fred is Dead ... Modroom ...
hey, i really love this.
(i wish i knew what arches paper is, i'm out of my depth. yikes.)
this entire thread is fascinating to read. almost as great an entry as the painting itself..
Good. It seems to me very suggestive, really wide-awake the aroma of the coffee. It makes me evoke a little while simple and calm.
Thanks Ian Russell :) Arches is a brand name for a mould made watercolour paper from a French mill made since 1492. It’s produced on a cylinder mould using French stream water, cotton fibres and natural gelatine sizing. The finished paper has a heavily textured paper surface. You can read more about Arches paper HERE
Can see you are swinging on those threads and spinning strings Catnapping - not yarns. Knitting stockings is next :)
Glad you are evoked a little Lu***
What a creative, caffeinated approach. Beautiful piece.
Lovely!
Ooooh! Pretty! I really like this image, and it really captures the theme of Simple too.
Teehee, caffeinated I am Bron Smith :)
Thanks String!
'Pretty' is a great word to use with 'Simple' Angela :)
beautiful. I would hang this on my wall.
holly
www.hollyhatam.livejournal.com
Simply excellent!!! It´s a piece of abstract Art. The technique is great.
beautiful pick-up sticks floating through space.
simply done with the last drop of java
smart
Thank you Holly, that is a huge compliment!
Abstract for some Gise :) Thanks!
Love the idea of space pick-up sticks! Librarianship, you are the second to mention java :)
Simplicity and great colors that could go right there above my chimney.
I love it!
Great blog, different stuff and good style. Well done! Thanks for your comment on my blog
Would not hang your coffee on my wall!!! I got noodles all over it, already!
Thanks for the moral support, though -- you are THE BEST! Lily.
Glad you like Stephanie. It's easy ... just thrust your mug above the fireplace :)
Thank you to you also Thomas!
Oh. OH!!! Any meal of the day would work ... You ARE a GENIUS Lily };-}
I really love this, the colors are awesome!
Who is your mug?
Thank you Recite23 :)
Modroom has volunteered to be Stephanie's mug to thrust above her fireplace!
Erm, well you turned that nicely around. I am not a mug I am a homosapien. If it's a real fireplace I might consider it, I've already been up a chimney this week.
That's because I AM nice Modroom :)
May I just ask you 5 questions in your comments instead???
For instance:
When is it that you are moving?
Why won't you be online once you've moved?
Have you got somewhere good to move to? What's it like?
Have I got this wrong and you will be (hope so)?
Have you all fully recovered from the effects of catastrophe 'flu?
Oh and I forgot to mention when I was coming to after my doze / journey yesterday one of the things that happened involved you. You gave me some sort of present energetically for something I had given you (though I can't say what either was exactly, you know how dreams are...).
Anyway, thank you!
You might like to know you were well masked as you were using your avatar so you are not generally leaking information.
I was wondering whether you had any awareness of this exchange.
You may Caroline :)
When is it that you are moving?
Moving 3rd March.
Why won't you be online once you've moved?
Moving family business, art studio AND house. Changing to broadband connection and probably ISP also. It is a lot of work and need to be focused on home and work before pleasure. This includes taking care of online business first once back.
Have you got somewhere good to move to? What's it like?
We have somewhere better to move to. It isn't falling down or bursting into flames or leaking. It isn't being run over by a bulldozer.
Have I got this wrong and you will be (hope so)?
You are correct.
Have you all fully recovered from the effects of catastrophe 'flu?
We have indeed fully recovered. Thank you for asking :)
My pleasure Caroline, thank you!
Yes, I have been aware. If I return as someone else, you will know who I am :)
Thanks for the answers.
A fortnight? That's soon! Hope you are not such a hoarder as me, it makes moving even more exhausting... and with a business, studio and house to move anyway that sounds like a job and several extra too...
I'm glad you have found somewhere to move to, it can't be easy to find a space that suits all your activities. I do remember you mentioning your terrible landlord... we ended up getting our deposit back but that was all and it was like pulling teeth ;-)
If I don't recognise you, it will be because you are a hamster of disguise... oops I mean a master of course...
Thanks for asking Caroline. Luckily we are in the business of the art of moving :) You are right about the difficulty in suiting multiple activities. Looking forward to major changes after eight years. I'll be needing some settling time also. You will know who I am :)
My word verification says xguubye!
xguubye to you too - though I hope you will be posting an IF this week if you have time!
Word verification is too keen. and this post could easily be 'song'! Will be posting last IF on the 3rd although won't be commenting back then :)
I dont know which has been more entertaining - reading your comments or enjoying your Simple! thanks again for stopping by my work again!
:-)
Sheesh! I get excited if I get 10 comments! 116?! That's radical!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this coffee on paper! How cool!
Simple but brilliant. You just boiled Sam Francis' entire body of work into a single meal.
Onthemovemous.. hope your move and new phase goes well in March. If you have time to re-appear that wopuld be nice, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Don't forget your trampoline, that's a gotta don't-do. Doo-doo you. ......:o
Thanks MAF, I also love how my visitors entertain :)
Hheheeee, try painting some coffee Karin, would LOVE LOVE LOVE it if you did!
That's because I'm a genius Briana :) I didn't have to have been in hospital either!
If I could fit my new phase into just March I would BroomRoom. You will see me bouncing into the sky because high and re-appearing plus won't forget trampoline :)
You were drinking Martini and listning to Mozart.Wrong? OK, doesn't matter. What I love are the vibrations colors and traits convey.
very awesome! i love the sparatic placing of all the lines. great colors too, morning coffee eh?! right on!
this is absolutely amazing!!! i love the colors and composition -- it looks so simple -- but to have a piece of work look that good, there's a lot of talent behind it! i haven't seen such a strong piece of abstract art in a long time. cheers to you!!!
;)
You are drinking Martini and listening to Mozart Paula! Hheheee - thanks :)
Yup lots of morning coffee Chacha! Teehee.
Thank you so much Minijubilee! You must go visit your Modern Art Museum soon :)
you been spilling your coffee?!? and who's to clean it? ;)
124 comments?! i don't think you missed me... :)
nevertheless... simpel in colour and form, what more can one want... :)
oh no, the old man was here just before me, he's in a foul mood! i better apologize in his place..
I love this piece, the use of colors and negative space is beautiful. Bravo!
Hahhaa, much easier to hang on the wall ChrisBrus!
Wrong, 129 comments Vfm4! You were gone? Another cup of coffee?? Thank you for apologizing for Chris's behaviour ... I like to keep a clean house :)
Thanks so much Anthony and Kaladda:)
Now, if you had done this with tea, it would have been a complete Asian-esque Zen moment. :-) Seriously, I love the tonal range and the fluid (pun intended) movement. Very creative.
sometimes simple isn't so simple
Hmmmm sure you're not talking toilet Lori Witzel (pun intended) :)
Uha RedT0pMedusa :)
This is really wonderful. It reminds me of Calligraphy, nice color and movement.
Calligraphic brush strokes to music and morning sounds Mary Stebbins Taitt :)
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