NYC Urban Sketchers - Food Glorious Food-Workshop with Shawne Cooper

About this Workshop:

Join Shawne Cooper for a one-of-a-kind sketching workshop that blends art with a culinary adventure. We’ll explore the vibrant food scene of Flushing, Queens, stopping at a variety of Chinese eateries—each offering sustenance for our sketchbooks and our stomachs. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or a curious beginner, Shawne will guide you in capturing the colors, textures, and energy of each delight, quickly and dynamically. It’s a chance to savor each bite and translate the experience onto the page. Come hungry for good food, creative fun, and community!

By the end of this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Capture the basic shapes of different food and drink items quickly, using minimal Iines
• Be able to plan out food sketches of your meals, without starving–or annoying dining companions
• Layer and texture these sketches with mixed media to represent layers and textures
• Build on your sketchbook pages, from one food item at a time
• Get cooking with recipes for seasoning your sketches, drizzling sauces, and showing steam

Note:In addition to the workshop price, participants will buy the food that they choose to eat (& draw); sharing is encouraged.

Art Supply List:

• Sketchbook of your choice, suitable for mixed media (wet or dry materials)
• Pentel brush pen
• Small set of watercolors
• Suggested colors: Winsor Lemon: (or other cool yellow), New Camboge (or other warm yellow), Cadmium Red (or other warm red), Permanent Alizarin Crimson (or other cool red), French Ultramarine (or other warm blue), Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Turquoise Light, Hooker's Green (or other good basic green), Burnt Sienna, Potter's Pink
• Waterbrush (good for on-the-go, quick sketches)
• Small bottle of water
• Napkin or paper towel
• White gouache and/or a thin white Posca Marker or white gel pen
• White china marker or white wax crayon

(NOTE: if you don't have all of these materials, don't fret; materials can be switched out with what you have on hand; Shawne will also be bringing extra materials to share.)

Optional:A glue stick

About the Instructor:

Shawne Cooper is a NYC-based artist, as well as an award-winning copywriter and creative director. Shawne is a longstanding sketcher in the Urban Sketchers community with a loose and colorful style. She is always exploring new ways to communicate stories, combining art, writing, and adventure–and loves taking others along for the ride. In addition to leading several workshops for the NYC Urban Sketchers community, Shawne has led classes at Pratt Institute, at the NY Public Library, in a tiny hilltop village in the mountains of Italy, and most recently on the Island of Hawai'i. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, at the Philippine Consulate, and even as a flag flying over Rockefeller Center (a Chinese dumpling flag, at that!). You can follow Shawne's goings on via Instagram here.

Host or Publisher New York City Urban Sketchers