270 days until Star Wars: The best part of waking up, is R2-D2 coffee art in your cup

Maria A. Aristidou is an artist, illustrator, and cake designer who splits her time between Cyprus and the UK. After accidentally discovering she could paint with coffee instead of watercolors, she began experimenting with the medium.

Similar to watercolors, she fills cups with different blends of coffee to get a variety of sepia tones. Then she transforms a blank canvas into art, such as this insanely detailed R2-D2.

 

A photo posted by Maria A. Aristidou (@ma_aris) on Mar 14, 2015 at 7:40pm PDT

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In this sped up time lapse, you can watch Aristidou at work bringing Artoo to life!

The astromech droid was Maria”s second attempt at a time lapse video of her Star Wars-themed coffee art. Prior to that, she released this one of Yoda!

If you”d like to learn more about Maria A. Aristidou”s work, you can follow her on Facebook and Instagram. Besides Star Wars art, Maria has created portraits, animals, and other famous fictional faces using her unique coffee skills.

[Via CNET]