| MOCHA BLUE - by Emily C. |
| Mocha BLUE was completed by Emily in eight sessions. At the first session cooked and uncooked coffee grounds, blue tempera paint, and Elmer’s Glue-All were combined and poured onto the canvas. Emily spread the mixture using a wooden spoon and the help of her collaborator. |
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| At the second session roasted coffee beans were mixed with blue tempera paint and Elmer’s Glue-All and spread onto the canvas with a wooden fork tool. At the third session a darker shade of blue tempera paint mixed with sugar was spread by Emily with a wooden spoon on certain areas of the canvas. During the next session chocolate syrup was mixed with cooked coffee grounds, Elmer’s Glue-All and turqious tempera paint. Emily used a chocolate syrup squeeze bottle to apply the mix.
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| At the fifth session another dark shade of blue tempera paint mixed with sugar was painted by brush to cover the turquois areas. At the sixth session a mixture of coffee grounds, blue tempera paint, and Elmer’s Glue-All was squeezed from a plastic bottle by Emily around the edges of the canvas. At the next to last session, dark blue tempera paint mixed with sugar and coffee beans was spooned on the canvas and spread by Emily with a wooden fork like tool. |
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| At the last session, as a final touch, a sugar and blue tempera paint mix was randomly poured onto the painting using a plastic squeeze bottle. Emily drank a glass of decaf coffee mocha at the end of each session. |
