Coffee to Go — Coffee Painting Kits

Coffee allows you to spontaneous paint in many places.

Paint where ever you are. People will be very curious about what you are doing. At your kitchen table, in a coffee shop or bar or at the airport and so on. It offers a great way to start conversations with onlookers with a Digital Coffee Painting Kit

Start painting with a Digital Coffee Painting Kit

  • Paint chocolate cupcake
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  • Paint a Yin Yang Symbol
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  • Paint a Giraffe

The Coffee Painting Kits range from Beginning to Intermediate and to Advanced Skills

What’s included in a Coffee Kit

  • Step by step instructions showing the visual stages of your painting

  • Reusable template of your choice with instructions for tracing the image to watercolor paper

  • Instructions for making a coffee color chart

  • Tips | Tricks | Shortcuts for best painting results

  • Suggested resources for continuing painting

  • Printable PDF How to Paint With Coffee

  • Complete materials list including instructions for best use

  • Tips | Tricks | Shortcuts for best painting results

  • Videos on the hidden qualities painting with coffee offers

Select one of four kits $10.each

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Each kit includes one template to trace onto paper. Following a template is a “safe” way to start painting. Once the image is traced onto the paper simply follow the illustrated steps included in each kit from start to finish.

Select one of four kits $10.each

What you need to get started

  • Quality Watercolor paper or watercolor block

  • Tracing paper

  • White eraser

  • At least two different brush sizes

  • Pencil and pencil sharpener

  • white ceramic dish for palette

  • At least one round watercolor brush

  • Instant or pre-dried coffee

  • Paint palette or small plates for mixed coffee

  • Pencil & white eraser (preferably kneaded)

  • Paper towels & Water containers

  • Optional but helpful - Hair Dryer, Spray bottle for water Masking Tape

The basic materials needed to get started are inexpensive easy to find.

  • A paint brush

  • heavy paper

  • coffee

  • Small plate for palette

  • 2 or 3 cups for water

  • Paper towels

The Right Tool for the Job. These are materials that will help you progress faster creating more satisfying results.

Suggested additional materials list

This will help you get familiar with the color range of coffee, the importance of working with layers and the drying time required between layers.

Coffee Color Chart

An easy hack for beginners to achieve impressive composition. Short cut for Success.

Composition made easy

Bonus exercises to help you get started

Paint the background first

Painting Out of the Box

Star Exercise

There are many things to be discovered while painting with coffee.

  • Experimenting with Value and Texture

  • Working with layers

  • Erasing Coffee ~ Moving Mud

  • Backgrounds and composition

  • Working with pencil lead mixed with coffee

  • How to use a Water Brush

  • Advantages of a kneaded or putty eraser

  • Importance of using High quality Watercolor paper

  • Paper Towels & Clean Water