The 'BEANA-LISA'!
A year or so ago, before I moved to my current location, the local Starbucks I used to frequent had a large 20” x 30” picture frame on its wall that was crying-out to be filled with something. So I quite voluntarily offered to create a poster image for them every month, which they would let me publicly display to customers of the store. This was great fun. Within reason, I could do anything I chose to do and therefore I did so on a regular basis! However, the most popular piece I created by far was the “BEANA-LISA”!
The BEANA-LISA was quite simply a version of the original Mona Lisa, but constructed with thousands of hand-drawn coffee beans of varying tones and color value. I know, its a quite insane undertaking… especially as I wasn’t being paid for it! But then again I guess I’m a typical ‘Virgo’ type and Virgo types tend to delight in tiny details! For an example of just how tiny those details are, here’s a close-up of just one section of the picture…
Now I suppose you’re probably going to suggest that I should ‘get a life’ after looking at this. However, I would argue in reply that after a career that has been entirely dedicated to drawing countless drawings… 24 drawings per second to be precise… to make my animated films, the entire BEANA-LISA exercise was actually a quite relaxing ‘therapy’ for me. The staff at Starbucks liked it, the customers most definitely liked it and in a strange and insanely masochistic way, I totally loved it!
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