Coffee Painting

How to Make a Coffee Painting?

Coffee painting, yeah an extremely simple and enjoyable art of expressing your creative thoughts on a paper with just coffee and other household stuffs. Coffee painting has only one color i.e its monochomatic yet looks amazing.

Materials requried

• A pencil to sketch your painting
• Black pens or markers - To add more details to your painting
• Pure black instant coffee powder
• Water
• Plastic cups
• Watercolor paper / Oslo paper / Sketch pad paper
• Paintbrushes - Flat brush and pointed round tip brush

Let's get started

At first you have to prepare 2 different shades of coffee - Light and Dark. To get the

• Light shade - Mix 2 cups of water with a portion of coffee
• Dark shade - Mix 1 cup of water with 2 portions of coffee

Explore your creativity and draw whatever you like on paper using the pencil. Start your first coat of paint with the light shade. Make sure you spread the light shade evenly so that your paper doesn't get too soggy. Here is where using the watercolor paper makes the difference. This type of paper won't easily absorb water even after applying lot of it. Let it dry - Give sufficient time for the first coat to dry before applying the second coat. Start applying the dark shade of coffee after the first coat dries completely. You can use the dark shade of coffee to outline, emphasize details of your painting or to create some shades and shadows. Blending can also be achieved mixing the dark shade with light one. You are done! Here you are with an amazing piece of art just using coffee powder... You can use black pens or markers to enhance the borders and edges.