Is It Possible To Coffee Stain Your Artwork To Make An Antique Feel?

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I'm an artist, and I was wondering if it was possible to use some coffee, or tea, to stain some heavy drawing paper and make an old, antique feel? On paper, would that be possible? If so, what would be the best method to go about doing that?

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  1. AMY G says:
    June 10, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    If it is watercolor paper or heavy enough paper that it won't wrinkle, you could use very weak tea as a wash with a brush.

  2. Rhubix says:
    June 10, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    if your going to stretch the paper you can soak it in a black, or orange tea for a while before putting it on your board.
    If your not going to stretch it you could use the same technique but you would need to iron the paper after it was dry.
    if your using a medium that wont run or bleed when it get wet you could do it after your finished.
    Or if you don't want to soak it you can just rub a wet tea bag over your work- this would result in a less uniform, more streaky result.
    Also burning the edges looks pretty cool too.

  3. inkgddss says:
    June 10, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    Treat it as if you are using watercolor. I would use a wet on wet wash, dilute the coffee pretty good so as it isnt such a heavy brown and can still paint over the top, but lay down different dilutions so it isnt so uniform. you could even stain canvas in this manner. You could use it as a switch out for walnut ink.

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