Observational & Free-Hand Art Teacher

Adria W.

Full refund until the class begins, or within 24 hours of purchase (until class starts), then a pro-rated refund based on the number of meetings.

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In this 13-week art course, young artists will participate in the tradition of creating art inspired by food by investigating important elements of art, like color and texture, and a fun final project of illustrating a meal or cookbook.

To ensure all learners enrolled in this course know basic drawing concepts, we will spend our first lesson reviewing important drawing knowledge. Basic drawing know-how will also ensure that young artists have developed basic art-making skills, such as a steady hand, observation, simplification, and how to build forms.  

Lesson 1: Drawing Fundamentals  

The second lesson will be dedicated to becoming familiar with the main materials of this course: watercolor and colored pencil. Throughout this lesson I will teach young artists basic watercolor and colored pencil techniques. In the first part of our second lesson, I will guide learners through eight basic watercolor techniques. 

Lesson 2: Watercolor & Colored Pencil Techniques  

Color is one of the most important, and controversial, elements of art. It is one of the areas where science and art mesh, and because of that, sometimes it gets complicated. But to paint confidently, an artist needs to know how to navigate color. We will be spending some time on color starting with basic color theory and how to set up a paint palette successfully. In this lesson, our primary focus will be a PowerPoint lecture on basic color theory.

Lesson 3: Basic Color Theory & Palette Set Up  

The fourth lesson will begin with a quick review of what we have discussed so far. We will review the five ways to vary line, the parts of a shadow, and different ways of creating values. Once our review is concluded, I will demonstrate how to observe, simplify, and draw textures. Young artists will be asked to create six flat texture squares using textures of their choice. 

Lesson 4: Creating Textures 

Our fifth lesson will be dedicated to drawing fruits and vegetables of any type. We will focus on simplifying the fruits and vegetables to construct them using the appropriate forms, then we will practice building accurate colors with our watercolor and colored pencil materials. For this lesson, young artist should bring whatever fruits or vegetables they find interesting. They may like to challenge themselves by preparing these foods in different ways, such as chopping them or frying them off.

Lesson 5: Fruits and Vegetables  

In our next lesson, we will draw the egg in various forms. We will start with an egg in the shell. This could be a raw egg, or a hard- or soft-boiled egg. Then, we will draw a hard-boiled egg with a partially peeled shell to introduce some textural variety. Finally, we will draw an egg that has been fried or cooked yolk-up to gain color contrast. Through these different forms of egg, young artists will encounter different textures, colors, and forms. 

Lesson 6: Variations on the Egg 

The 7th lesson will ask young artists to prepare some examples of their favorite grains. A fluffy loaf of plain brioche, buttered toast, plain or fried rice, all examples of grain will work beautifully. In our grain drawings, I will emphasize the importance of simplification and review the lesson of textures we have had to ensure the best drawings possible. It will be particularly important in our grain drawings to not get lost in the maze of detail and instead, focus on the larger design.  

Lesson 7: Breads and Grains 

In our next lesson, we will draw several dishes, glasses, silverware, and other various serving objects. Young artists will need to produce a reference of a plate with a pattern (the pattern can be textural or painted on), a bowl of any kind, a glass drinking vessel such as a regular drinking glass, mason jar, or wine glass, as well as metal silverware, spoons, forks, butter knives, or others. 

Lesson 8: Dishes & Utensils  

Liquid food items can be deceptively simple. While an artist can certainly simplify a soup to a single color and shape, most soups have a variety in color and little bits of things in it that give texture and shape. These little details and nuances are what make food illustrations come to life. This lesson will focus on details with drinks, soups, sauces, as well as any other liquid or semi-liquid foodstuff the young artist chooses to draw.  

Lesson 9: Drinks, Soups, & Sauces  

This lesson will focus on drawing meats and proteins. Learners should come to class prepared to draw whichever proteins they prefer to eat, whether it be chicken, beef, pork, tofu, legumes, or others. They should have examples of their protein in a raw and cooked form. In this class, we will focus on making these proteins look delicious through careful use of color, thoughtful textures, and layers of detail. As usual, while references from life are preferred, photo references will work too.  

Lesson 10: Meats and Other Proteins 

Cookies, mochi, candies, pies, cakes, puddings and more- the world of desserts is huge!  Dessert is my favorite part of a meal; I have a big sweet tooth! If you like dessert too, then you’re probably excited for our next lesson dedicated to drawing all things sweet and yummy. Desserts present a unique challenge in food illustration, they often employ a wide range of textures, colors, and sometimes special vessels too. 

Lesson 11: Desserts 

Our last two lessons will be dedicated to the completion of the final project for this course. Learners will have the choice of illustrated a four-course meal or creating a mini cookbook with at least four illustrated recipes. Young artists will be given two in-class weeks to work on their project, but they must present their idea for the project in our next lesson. For example, a learner who chooses to illustrate a four-course meal might take inspiration from their favorite restaurant...

Lesson 12 & 13: The Final Plate  

draw an appetizer, drink, main course, and dessert. Or, a learner who chooses to create a cookbook may take recipes from the family cookbook to re-create. They may also choose to enter the realm of fantasy to create their ideal meal, but they must have some kind of reference to base their drawings from.


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