Watercolor Food Illustration: Burger and Fries
Whether you want to learn new watercolor techniques to achieve realistic results, strengthen essential skills like color mixing, painting textures and shading complex forms, or you simply enjoy painting food, this course is for you!
✱ What You'll Learn:
- How to use the pre-wetting technique to easily paint large washes with soft effects
- How to combine wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques for realistic, balanced results
- How to use a reference photo for realism without getting stuck on every detail
- A simple approach for painting metallic objects
- How to use the scrubbing technique to soften shapes and add dimension
- How to use masking fluid to protect complex highlights and create subtle textures
- How to layer watercolor for realism while keeping your painting fresh and not overworked
- Plus much more!
✱ Supplies you'll need:
- Tracing paper, carbon paper, or a lightbox
- Drawing pencils *Suggested grades: HB, 2B
- Soft graphite eraser
- Kneaded eraser
- Watercolor paper *Suggested type/weight: Cold Press, 140 lbs.
- Watercolor paint set
- Paint mixing palette
- Watercolor brushes
- Masking fluid
- Absorbent towel or kitchen paper towels
- Masking tape or artist's tape (3/4" or 1")
By the end of this course, you’ll have a finished food illustration of a juicy burger and crispy fries. As you work through each lesson, you’ll build practical skills and confidence that will carry into your future watercolor food paintings.
This course includes downloadables:
- My outline sketch
- A high-quality reference photo of a burger and fries
- A photo of my finished painting which you may use as reference as you're working
- A photo I took after applying the masking fluid (yellows are enhanced so it’s easier to see)
- Your supply list
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When you buy this course, you'll get lifetime access to my Watercolor Food Illustration: Burger and Fries course, which is made up of 16 value-packed classes in which I teach you, step-by-step, how paint a realistic (but painterly) food still life. I explain my strategy and favorite techniques, in-depth. This course also includes downloadable files (my outline sketch, reference photo, etc.). If you have any questions, send me an email: hello@erikalancaster.com and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. :)