
Explore homemade printmaking inspired by cocktails, using ink transfer, tracing, watercolor washes, and oil paint resist with wax crayons to create charming, repeatable prints for cards and invitations.
Explore the ink transfer process with tracing paper, watercolor paper, and a fine-nib dip pen to create repeatable, accurate cocktail linework with a vintage mimeograph feel.
Explore home printmaking and watercolor techniques to create a playful set of martini artworks, using ink transfers, multiple prints, and expressive color blends.
Learn to create cocktail art with homemade printmaking by building a strawberry daiquiri image through color layering, shadowing, and reflections, and using a white paint pen for seeds.
Explore playful cocktail printmaking with watercolors and a blotchy, liquid look to depict Aperol spritz and apple spritz, highlighting glass reflections, ice, lemon wedges, and vibrant color blending.
Learn a do-it-yourself oil paint transfer to create bold cocktail prints using regular paper, brush technique, and drawn details to capture glass, liquid, foam, and reflections.
Master cocktail printmaking by applying dry brushing and layered line work to glass and garnishes, using tape for clean edges, and exploring multiple prints for greeting cards or gift bags.
Learn to paint a cocktail print using watercolor with oil paint resist, wax resist crayon to preserve whites, and layered color to render glass and liquid.
Use resist crayon to create ice cubes in watercolor cocktails. Layer colors from red to orange to yellow, add raspberries and whiskey hints, with dry brush and splatters.
Use resist crayon with a stencil to keep watercolor inside the glass, creating elegant edge effects and subtle ice highlights, enabling variations across multiple pieces.
Join me for two different creative, fun approaches to drawing cocktails--or anything you want to draw!
In this class, we’re going to try two DIY printmaking techniques popularized by famous artists: Andy Warhol and Paul Klee.
We’ll use Andy Warhol’s ink transfer technique to make simple ink prints of cocktails, and then we’ll add watercolor.
We’ll also use Paul Klee’s oil paint resist technique, along with modern wax crayons, to make a different kind of handmade, truly unique cocktail print, and we’ll add watercolor to those, too.
These techniques are really entertaining and inventive ways to approach any subject you want to paint—not just cocktails but florals, animals, and anything that inspires you.
With these methods, you can make paintings in series, create greeting cards or party invitations, make placeholders or gift tags, or create beautiful wall art that is truly unique.
Because we’ll be tracing in this class, no drawing experience is necessary, and we’re going to be splashing watercolor around in a loose, expressive way. There is truly no experience required. This class is for everyone!