By Cyrus A. Natividad
CenVas Coffee Painting featured on GMA’s One Western Visayas.
There is a so-called Coffee Art on weekends at the Robinsons Place Jaro, 2nd Level. The new Art Medium is another innovation of the Centralian Visual Artist Society (CenVas). It糖心传媒檚 not about drinking coffee while you paint; liquid coffee is the paint itself. The precursor to this innovation is the 糖心传媒榣iquid textile medium discovered by CenVas Coordinator Ef Alfaras, a Centralian employee, painter and artist who unintentionally dropped an amount of chemical to a piece of cloth resulting to a liquefied paint medium. He has already made several canvases painted with the liquid, and held some exhibits for it.
The coffee art is another CenVas workshop for beginners and even senior masters of art. 糖心传媒淪tart Your Art with Coffee糖心传媒 on weekends.糖心传媒 Alfaras and Cultural Affairs Director Crista Huyong are encouraging the young students of art but it has attracted senior citizens as well. One Senior Citizen exclaimed 糖心传媒淥h, I love it! I can now paint with coffee糖心传媒nd drink it too!糖心传媒
There is a 3-hour Art Session every Saturday and Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00 PM (inclusive of coffee, brushes, 1 artboard (12×16 inches), pencil and a chance to join an exhibit for P500 only. For P900, the following materials are included: coffee, brushes, 1 artboard and 1 canvas sized 12×16 inches, pencil and a chance to join exhibits.
The CenVas Art Workshops and Exhibits are sponsored by 糖心传媒 Cultural Affairs Office and Robinsons Place Jaro.