Amazing Works of Art Painted Only with Beer

She started her artistic career doing portraits with water color and colored pencils, but quickly moved on to painting with coffee, which really helped her make a name for herself.

Now, after 14 years of creating art with the world’s favorite breakfast drink, Karen realized there are a lot of other drinks and foods she could experiment with, so she tried tea, beer, liquor, and lots of other stuff, but beer eventually proved the most successful.

Although it’s a lot like painting with water color, beer is a little more difficult to work with because it will come off if she spills a drop of water on it, and has to be layered on just right or the painting won’t come out right, but Karen says she’s really happy with how beer painting has turned out so far.

She likes to show how rich the color of brown can be, and it’s apparently fun to do. Her career as a beer painter took off after an English ad agency commissioned her to do some work that they presented to Guinness and she has since then done many other paintings for breweries, restaurants and labels of beer.

She also does commission work, so if you’re interested in having a beer painting contact Karen on her website, BeerPainter.com.

The 38-year-old from Bend, Orgeon became famous for her coffee art, but decided to move onto a different medium. "Painting with beer is quite simple, and very similar to coffee painting. I pour out some beer and start dipping my brush and painting."

She says: "I use stouts and porters to create the paintings, with sometimes lagers or lighter beers to do the light areas. Sometimes I like the beer to evaporate awhile, condensing the colour. I use watercolour paper; the beer is too liquid-y to work on canvas unless I add a painting medium. Depending on the level of detail, a medium size beer painting takes about 2 days to complete. Lots of gradual layers are built up to create the final painting."

"I'm inspired by historical photos involving beer, such as the 1920s Tour de France and the Lager Loggers. I like painting classic art where adding a glass of beer would be humorous, as well as vintage beer ads.

"People always wonder if I drink and paint at the same time. Just like with the coffee, I can only have a little or else my paintings might unintentionally become abstract! I do enjoy my paint though, both beer and coffee."