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Part I: Introduction to Coffee Painting Basics Part II: Create Your Own Coffee Painting
Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao Campus Friday Afternoon Activity
Introduction
Coffee painting is very much like watercolor painting. The difference is that coffee painting is monochromatic meaning you work with only one hue or color in different tones or shades.
There is a natural characteristic in coffee painting because you are using a pigment coming from an organic source. Others use pigments from flowers, leaves, tree barks, and etcetera; but on this one you are using the pigment coming from coffee beans.
There are many ways in which you can express your own art through coffee. It s just a matter of how much coffee you mix with water and how you control the paintbrush to get the desired effect you want in your painting.
Paintbrushes
3 containers/plastic cups
Paper
1. Prepare your coffee painting solutions and a cup full of water for cleaning your paintbrush
4. Then apply darker tones or shades of coffee to give your painting depth and detail.
Tips
You can start with a darker shade of coffee and spread it out over your painting until the shade becomes lighter. If you are painting without stretching your paper, it is advisable that you don t dab too much water or coffee so that the paper won t sag or become too soggy. Dip your paintbrush lightly on the coffee and spread it out evenly on your paper. You can use black pen or marker on your painting to give it more details. If the ink of your pen takes a longer time to dry, paint with coffee first before creating details with your pen. If you are using 0.1 tech pen or 0.3/0.4 Gtec pen, let the ink dry first before dabbing on coffee to your painting. When storing your painting, make sure that there are no other papers or things on top of it since coffee painting tends to become sticky.
Watercolor paper or Matte board Paper tape Ply board (a little bit bigger than the size of your painting) Sponge Paintbrushes (preferably animal hair paintbrush, flat tip brushes for initial painting and round tip brushes for shading and detailing) 3 containers/plastic cups (one for the water to clean your brushes, the other two for different shades of coffee) Cutter and Straight edge/ruler Frame
Tips
When creating a collection of coffee paintings, documentation is a must. Take photos of your paintings and record the date they were made. This is important if you sell your painting or have it exhibited in art galleries/museums. The price of the painting will depend on the materials used, the technique, and style, how it goes with the trend nowadays or in the future, the story or message it conveys, and sometimes by the status of the artist. If you want to keep your original paintings, you can sell reproductions or art prints based from your painting.
Paint what inspires you. Express your emotions (happiness, sadness, joy or excitement) through painting. Painting is also a means of capturing the beauty of the environment you are in at a particular moment. Painting can also be a means of therapy an outlet whenever you are depressed or stressed out.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Reminders
Allow enough space between each other so that you can work properly with your materials. You can actually go wherever you want within the school grounds find a place where you feel most inspired or motivated to paint. Please be reminded that you have to return to the gym by 3:45pm so that we can have a mini-exhibit of your paintings. Please clean your plastic cups/containers after using them. Recycle them for further use or throw them at the designated garbage bin. Don t leave them lying around somewhere. Borrowed materials should be returned after the workshop they are also needed in other painting sessions.