Coffee Keeps Life in Balance

I’m working on a new project today.

The Working Title is:  “Karma Macchiato”.

1st rough in ArtRage Studio

The original idea for this one came about in August of 2008 while I was playing around with some new project ideas.

Coffee is one of my favorite subjects.  I had this black & white Yin/Yang image.  I imagined painting it as the foamy ‘crema’ atop a cup of a macchiato.  (In Italian “caffe macchiato” means “marked coffee”  – an espresso with just a little marking of steamed milk on top. )

So I’d done a few sketches when it occurred to me that just maybe I could animate it – make it transform, morphing from a crema into the Yin & Yang…

The image below is the origial proof-of-concept test.   This is an image type called a “GIF” – stands for Graphical Interchange Format.

"Yin/Yang Crema" by Raoul Widman, 2008

I used Paint.Net  to create all of the individual images and then interlaced them with UnFREEze to create the animated GIF.

The project went on the shelf and I decided to haul it out and do it up right.  So that’s what I’m up to today.  When it’s finished I’ll come back and post it here.