COFFEE PAINTINGPresented By:

Sarita Sankle TGT ( A.E.)

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Sainik Vihar

II Shift

New Delhi

How to Make a Coffee PaintingCoffee painting is an extremely easy and enjoyable process of expressing your creativity on paper. This type of art may be monochromatic, which involves working with only one color, but its potential for art is limitless.History of Coffee Painting (ARFE’)Arfé is the creation of artworks by staining with coffee.The term was coined by Puerto Rican artist, Francisco Rivera Rosa, describing his paintings of using coffee. The word comes from a combination of the words art and café. Thus, arfé is a portmanteau or blending of words. This art is also known as simple as ‘Coffee Painting‘ or ‘Coffee Art’.The first coffee paintings were made centuries ago, as the brown beverage began to colonize Europe. They were inspired by the old custom of painting with coffee’s closer relative, tea. Coffee and tea are also used to make marble statues look older. Painters using Coffee in the 20th Century:In the past few years, painting with natural pigments became a common practice among many artists who were looking for ways to obtain unusual textures and colours, that oil or tempera could not offer. Among these pigments, coffee is one of the artists’ favourites. Its colour spectrum, from light to dark brown, can create a striking atmosphere.Coffee is a fascinating medium to form art. It is a quite successful experiment using Coffee to get the old-look effect in your painting. It is all about using pure coffee, water and your brush. It requires a thoughtful and delicate touch. Coffee painting produces everlasting shining. Uniqueness achieved by this medium cannot be delivered by any other medium.

As refreshing as freshly brewed coffee with its heavenly aroma, the coffee pigment amazingly lends itself to be a perfect but a unique art medium.No doubts, Impression & Aroma of coffee painting holds breathe of art, artist and art lovers on a single canvas!!

Material Required

To do coffee painting, you only need five materials: 1. First is pure black instant coffee.2. Next is water in plastic cups.3. Third is watercolor paper. If you can’t find any, also paper or sketch pad paper will do.4. You will also need paintbrushes. As a start, use a flat brush and round tip brush.5. And lastly, you’ll need a pencil to make a sketch of your painting. If you want to add more details to your artwork, you can also use black pens or markers.

Making the coffee paintingSTEP ONE: Preparing Your Coffee SolutionsStep 1 is to prepare your coffee solutions.You will only need to prepare two shades of coffee.To make a light shade, mix one part coffee to two parts water.To make a dark shade, mix two parts coffee to one part water.STEP TWO: Sketch the subject of your artwork on paperStep 2 is to sketch the subject of your artwork.At this point, you can draw whatever you want on paper. STEP THREE: Paint your sketch with a light coffee solution.Step 3 is to start painting your sketch with a light shade of coffee. Make sure that you spread the coffee solution evenly so that your paper won’t get too soggy. You can actually avoid this problem by using watercolor paper, which is a type of paper that won’t easily warp after applying lots of water over it.

After which, let your painting dry for several minutes before applying a dark shade of coffee.STEP FOUR: Apply the dark shade of coffeeAfter drying your painting, you can now start applying a dark shade of coffee over it. You can use the dark shade of coffee to outline your painting, emphasize details, or to create some shades and shadows.You can even mix the dark shade of coffee with the light shade in order to create some blending.You might only be working with two shades of coffee, but this gives you endless possibilities for creating artworks.You can use black pens or markers to create coffee and ink artworks. You can also use any style of art that you prefer. To preserve the painting, simply put it in a glass frame to protect it from the elements.

As refreshing as freshly brewed coffee with its heavenly aroma, the coffee pigment amazingly lends itself to be a perfect but a unique art medium.No doubts, Impression & Aroma of coffee painting holds breathe of art, artist and art lovers on a single canvas!!Suggestive class wise options

Class VI : Printing with coffee and brush impression.Class VII : Bird composition with coffee medium.Class VIII : Still life with coffee medium.Class IX : Landscape with coffee medium.Class X : Historical monuments with coffee. Learning objectives : knowledge of composition Knowledge of colouring with coffee pigments inspite

of normal colours Knowledge of monochromatic colour scheme. Exercise observation and imagination skills. Develop better understanding of fundamentals of art

such as balance, perspective and,space management.

Sentisize students to think out of box. Be more confident.