beverage art | Outside The Lines

There are many different mediums with which to create art. Some of those art constituents include various types of paint, chalk pastels, charcoal pencils, mosaic fragments, metals, and the like. But would you ever imagine that hole punch dots could be used to craft incredible portraits? An artist from the United Kingdom is proving to the world that these dots are definitely a worthy art medium.

Artist Nikki Douthwaite has made a practice of collecting hole punch dots for the past three years. After sorting them by shade, she uses the dots to create portraits, which are “inspired by magazine photos,” of pop icons. The artist was led to use this particular medium after studying Gorges Seurat (pointalist artist) in school.

How exactly does one craft a large portrait out of hole punch dots? The answer is, with patience and very carefully. Douthwaite uses tweezers to place the dots onto her canvas. She commented, “I use the dots like paint. I do different colors for the feel of the picture, and there are thousands of colors in each piece.”

According to the artist, the most time-consuming aspect of the portrait process is composing subjects’ hair. Facial features are reportedly “easy.” Oddly, Nikki Douthwaite admitted that “the younger and prettier (a subject is), the harder I seem to find it, as there seems to be less distinguishing features.” Douthwaite reported that each of her works of art takes 6 to 15 weeks to complete.

Some of Nikki Douthwaite’s portrait subjects include Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Jemi Hendrix, and Simon
Cowell. Monroe’s portrait required about 100,000 dots, whereas Cowell’s took an amazing 189,000 dots. The artist spent a liberal amount of time on all her pieces, include the portrait on John Lennon, which demanded 140,000 hole punch dots.

More and more artists are bringing art out of the box and demonstrating that the sky is truly the limit when it comes to art mediums. If hole punch dots are being used to create attention-grabbing art, imagine what other elements could be used to compose art that makes the world turn its head.

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Florida State University is drawing attention from the art world, and surprisingly, the attention isn’t focused on the art department, but on what’s being photographed through a microscope.

Have you ever wondered what the molecules of your favorite beverage look like? Well, Florida State University did, and what they found is truly a beautiful and artistic display.

Most of us know that when light passes through a crystal it is refracted into a rainbow. So, imagine if the crystals we used came from your favorite beverage. What would you expect to see?

Florida State University has been drying drops of beverages on glass slides; allowing them to dry out into clusters of crystals and then passing light through them as they take a look through a microscope. The affect is a kaleidoscope of color.

Above: Vodka molecules, Here: Tequila Shot

Each image is unique due to the composition of crystals. For example, sugary beverage crystals will look different from pure beverage crystals like what might be found in Vodka.

Don’t be fooled though, this process is hardly simple or quick. As true artwork it can take many slides of a dray, crystallized beverage to find a single image that is worthy of being called art. Michael Davidson, a scientist and now artist, has taken up to 200 slides before finding a shot he believes to be art.

These images are being sold as pieces of art. BevShots, based in Tallahassee Florida, is a good place to start shopping for these colorful pictures.

You are sure to be transfixed by the combinations of colors and patterns that the microscopic molecules create. The variety of designs is mesmerizing. As you peruse through the multi- colored crackle effect derived from vodka, to the bold blues and greens of a tequila shot, to the almost floral imaged produced by Coca Cola, you will sit in both awe and anticipation. No two images are alike so you are sure to find something that catches your fancy. More that likely you will be caught up in the experience of art at is most unique and mind blowing.