Today I will be sharing with you, my process of painting this cup of hot chocolate. I haven’t painted a full food illustration for a while so I thought that this would be the perfect subject to paint for the season.

Like my usual paintings I will have an outline available for you to download in the projects and resources section so you can trace and get straight to painting if you’re not into drawing. But for those of you who would like to learn the drawing process, I will also be including it as part of the lesson.

There are some small areas where it will be required for you to have control over your brush load so the paint doesn’t puddle up and run, so like my usual food illustrations I will classify this class for intermediate students, who has experience with watercolours and understand the basics like brush load, and control, colour mixing and so on.

If you’re a beginner, and you’d like to give this a go, I’d still welcome you to try as I will be going through every colour and layer so it’s easy to understand, but just remember to paint at your own pace.

As a disclaimer, I tend to skip through parts of the painting when my hand is off the camera, to get the class going, this means that I will be painting a bit faster than normal speed. So, if you’ve never taken any of my classes before, please try to watch a few lessons beforehand or skim through the whole class so you understand the flow of the lessons, and when you’re ready to paint along, just pause between each step and move along once you’re done with specific steps, so you can paint at your own pace without being rushed.

If this sounds and looks like something you’d be interested in painting. I welcome you to join this class and let’s begin. ENJOY!

Megan Chen

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