Connected to the visual arts and illustration from an early age, David José Simões has tackled various techniques over the years such as oil, watercolour and charcoal, but it was in the manipulation of coffee as a painting technique that he found the formula for his current pl...
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Connected to the visual arts and illustration from an early age, David José Simões has tackled various techniques over the years such as oil, watercolour and charcoal, but it was in the manipulation of coffee as a painting technique that he found the formula for his current plastic expression. The faithful and subtle sepia-toned monochrome provided by coffee, combined with the watercolour technique, allows him to transport to the surface in an almost automatic and super natural way all the weight and expressiveness that I want to convey in his pieces.