"Culinary Portraiture" Watercolor Painting Class for Adults

"Culinary Portraiture" Watercolor Painting class for Adults

Fried Eggs on Toast, yellows, whites, toasty browns

Students learn the illustration and watercolor techniques to bring enchanting food to life through culinary portraiture.

The worlds of food and visual art have long intermingled.  Even before food came to define the still life genre, the subjects of ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art were often edible, giving us a window into some of the culinary culture of the time.  In this workshop led by artist Raquel Hinojosa, we’ll honor the foods of our time, using watercolor to create a contemporary culinary portrait of food selected for this course.  We will use reference photos, and sketching to recreate the composition.  We’ll then learn how to apply watercolor paint in a wet-on-dry technique focusing on using your awareness to capture minute details in your painting.  By the end of our time together, not only will…