Coffee Painting with Jaz!

Family Art Voyage 4

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What you need for coffee painting:

Paper

1 teaspoon of instant coffee

Two cups for mixing the paint

Cold water

1 paintbrush or cotton earbud for painting

1 candle

Have you ever realised that it’s possible to make paint out of coffee?!

Paint that is light and dark and runny and thick and really fun to make! Well, this week we learnt how to do just that! We were joined by the wonderful artist, Jaz, for our fourth week of Family Art Voyage.

Jaz has been painting with coffee for a long time, and has discovered how easy it is to make a brilliant picture!

Our Stories

‘So there was a snake in the beach and a dragon fly flying around and a tornado and there was snow and snow coming down on the beach!’

Nuo Xuan

‘There’s a dog on the street and a tree and its walking under the tree going to the park!’

Genesis

‘The cat went back to the beach and they met his friend and were sunbathing on the beach and they spotted a cloud that looked like an Australian dog!’

Shullamite

How to make the paint

Put half of your coffee in each cup. Add a tiny splash of water to one cup and a bigger splash of water to the other cup. This is to make your SHADES of paint – one lighter colour and one darker colour! Mix them with your paintbrush or a teaspoon to make sure the coffee granules have dissolved. Then test out your colours to make sure you are happy with them, remember you can always add more coffee or water to make the paint lighter or darker. Then you are ready to paint!!

Candle trick

As a bonus magic painting trick, Try drawing on the page with the wax of your candle. What you draw will be invisible until you paint over the top of it! Magic!!

In our sessions we made up a storybook, each adding a page to the story with our paintings! Each page had a character, a setting, and something to make them happy!

Some characters we thought of: a shark with legs and a unicorn tail! A surfing dingo! A cow!
Some places we thought of: the jungle, under the sea, in a sweetie shop!
Some happy things that could happen: playing with family and friends! Feeling love in the air! Seeing a pumpkin!

Coffee Painting is so much fun!

‘There’s a bunch of pigs on a normal day and there was lots of rain so they could roll around in mud and stuff!’

Toby

‘A caterpillar wanted to be a butterfly and their wish came true!!’

Aroush

‘Its a bee trying to take honey from the flower and I tried to draw a pumpkin.’

Abdul

Once we’d come up with our ideas, we started painting!

Here are some examples of our stories:

‘So there was a snake in the beach and a dragon fly flying around and a tornado and there was snow and snow coming down on the beach!’ – Nuo Xuan

AND THEN…

‘There’s a dog on the street and a tree and its walking under the tree going to the park!’ – Genesis

AND THEN…

‘The cat went back to the beach and they met his friend and were sunbathing on the beach and they spotted a cloud that looked like an Australian dog!’ – Shullamite

AND THEN…

‘There’s a bunch of pigs on a normal day and there was lots of rain so they could roll around in mud and stuff!’ – Toby

AND THEN…

‘A caterpillar wanted to be a butterfly and their wish came true!! – Aroush

AND THEN…

‘Its a bee trying to take honey from the flower and I tried to draw a pumpkin.’ – Abdul

So next time you want to do a painting, just make some with coffee!