Food Illustration: Illustrate Your Own Recipe

According to the organizers:

This workshop is for everyone who loves food, cooking and drawing; for all you foodies, crafters, artists, creators, and kitchen masters. Over the course of two hours everyone create a beautiful range of some yummy illustrated ingredients and dishes.

We will start off with different warm-up drawing exercises, where you’ll be introduced to playing with different art mediums and look at how to capturing food illustration. After that we’ll look at everyone’s favourite recipes and look at how we can turn them into beautiful cookbook worthy illustrations. We’ll look at how to set and arrange your ingredients on you page (composition), as well as use of color and text.

In this 2.5-hour workshop you will:

• Play with different techniques: drawing, painting, mixed media
• Learn how to composite and arrange the different ingredients into an eye catching, full page illustration
• Look into backgrounds, patterns and type to be used on your page

Don’t forget to bring your favorite recipe! All materials are provided, no need to bring anything. Depending on how fast you work, you may not finish your entire illustration during class!