Hi, I’m Eugenia and I will be your teacher for today’s class. I am a watercolour enthusiast who mainly focuses on food illustration. This class is a step-by-step paint through of a food illustration; Blackberry Jam on Toast. Today’s class is a request from a lot of my past students and YouTube followers, after watching a speedpaint of it on my channel a while back, and so I decided to turn this into a full class so the steps are more manageable to follow.

I will be painting at a slow pace while talking to you and informing you in each individual steps in hopes that students are able to paint along. But it is recommended for students to watch the lessons individually before painting along, as it will be easier to digest the information when students know what to expect from certain lessons. Another tip for this class, if students choose to paint along as they watch is to pause in each step, so they are able to watch and have time to paint it themselves in their own time before moving along to the next step.

Here is the class outline of the smaller lessons:

01. INTRODUCTION

An introduction to the class and a list of the class outline as well short clips of lesson previews from start to finish

02. SUPPLIES

A list of the art supplies used to complete the final painting in this class

03.TRACING

You can draw your own toast but, there will also be a downloadable pattern/outline of the illustration, which you can trace out.

04. MASKING

Prepping of the illustration by masking off small elements

05. I. BASE COLOUR

Painting the base colour of the whole toast

06. II. BASE COLOUR: CRUMBS

Separating the toast between the crumbs and crust

07. III. BASE COLOUR: CRUST

Prepping the base colour of crust

08. I. TOASTY TEXTURE

Adding a layer of golden brown colour to the sides of the crumbs

09. II. TEXTURE: CRUMB STRUCTURE

Painting the holes of the crumb structure

10. III. TEXTURE: CORNERS

Adding detailed texture to the crumb structure along the side of the toast

11. IV. TEXTURE: SHADOWS IN CRUMB STRUCTURE

Details of shadows within the holes of the crumb texture

12. CRUST DETAILS

Identifying the folds and texture of the crust and enhancing the shapes

13. JAM

Painting the base colours of the jam along with additional textures

14. JAM REFLECTION AND HIGHLIGHTS

Building form of the jam by adding several layers of reflection and highlights followed with shadows to enhance the texture

15. CLEANING MASKING FLUID

Revealing the smaller elements that was previously masked off

16. LEAVES

Painting the leaves from start to finish

17. ALMONDS

Painting the golden brown almonds from start to finish

18. SHADOWS OF LEAVES AND ALMONDS

Enhancing additional elements of the dish by adding shadows

19. DRY BRUSH ON CRUST

Painting the residual flour that’s sometimes left on the crust for additional texture and character

20. ACCENT: DOTS

An optional addition as accent to give dynamic elements to the painting

21. CLOSING AND CLASS PROJECT

Conclusion and introduction to the class project

* I hope everyone will enjoy this class and learn something new after following and painting along! Happy painting to you all! :))

** My health condition wasn't the best while I was filming this, and I suffer from eczema on my hands, I apologise in advance if any of you are distracted by my dry skin in this class, please let me know if it does, and I'll try to wear gloves next time. If not, I really really appreciate your understanding <3**

Xiao Ye

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