You might have heard painting with oil paintings but there is artist by name Plata who uses coffee as a source of painting. The artist uses instant coffee to paint whimsical scenes and rural landscapes on the surface and gives off the bean's aroma.

Plata creates different shades of brown by mixing different quantities of coffee with water. She also uses a fixing material to ensure the longevity of the paint.

She started this technique after seeing a painting signed with coffee. Plata says that she started painting with coffee because it is more economical than the oil painting. Plata had been a playschool teacher before she barged into painting almost eight years back. She draws fairies, butterflies, and other images all inspired by her dreams. She specializes in using coffee as an alternative of paint. Her paintings are almost sold at a minimum of $400 and the pieces have an expected life of 75 to 100 years. She conducts coffee painting workshops for aspiring students as well as artists.

Two paintings by the world's most well-liked artist, Vincent Van Gogh, challenge in a partitioned room at the Yale University Art Gallery. As far as exhibitions go, this one that the gallery's dynamic curator Jennifer Gross spent no less than three years putting together is definitely on the small side. But it's well appeal taking the trouble to see.

You would no doubt be familiar with one of the paintings: "The Starry Night." Painted during 1889, when Van Gogh was occupant in a refuge at Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France, this agitated, uncomfortable image is looked upon by many as his masterpiece. It's surely his most excellently known image, and almost certainly not far behind Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" as the world's most famous painting

Amsterdam - A team of European scientists has exposed a fresh technique of extracting images hidden under Old Master paintings without injuring them, recreating a color portrayal of a woman's face hidden since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.

While not precise in every feature, the image produced displays a woman's head that a van Gogh specialist said might be that of the sample in a series of portraits chief up to the 1885 masterpiece The Potato Eaters. Van Gogh often used again canvas to save money, either painting on the back or over the top of accessible paintings.

Joris Dik, a materials scientist from Delft University, and Koen Janssens, a chemist from the University of Antwerp, joined science and art to engineer a fresh technique of looking at unseen paintings, using high-intensity x-rays and an intimate knowledge of old pigments.