Quick and Fun Summer Painting: Watermelon Slice

Learn Watercolour Painting with Food Illustration Expert Eugenia!

This beginner-friendly watercolour class is perfect for those wanting to explore the beauty of food illustration. Join Eugenia, a passionate watercolour enthusiast specializing in painting delicious subjects, as she guides you through creating a vibrant, loose watermelon slice painting.

In this engaging class, you'll discover the wet on wet watercolour technique – a fundamental skill for achieving soft, blended effects. We'll start with a quick warm-up exercise to practice doodling and drawing the watermelon slice, even without a pre-drawn outline!

Eugenia will demonstrate the entire painting process in real-time, allowing you to paint along at your own pace. While the painting itself is simple, it's ideal for beginners to watercolour looking to build confidence and master basic techniques. Feel free to pause the video whenever you need to.

Class Outline:

• Introduction: Meet Eugenia and the project.
• Supplies: A quick overview of the materials needed for watercolour painting.
• Warm-up and Exercise: Mastering the wet on wet technique and basic watermelon slice drawing.
• Simple Doodle in 3D Colours: Experimenting with colour layering.
• Painting: Front Face: Building the core colours and shapes.
• Painting: Side and Stick: Adding depth and form.
• Painting: Seeds and Shadow: Introducing detail and dimension.
• Painting: Highlights and Adjustments: Refining the painting with light and shadow.
• Painting: Splatters: Adding a final touch of artistic flair.
• Closing: Review and next steps.

Need extra practice? Check out Eugenia's YouTube tutorial for a follow-along watermelon painting exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_fTkX6OAYs

Happy painting!