Daily Food Drawing Practice: A Creative Approach to Mindful Eating

Are you looking for a more mindful relationship with your food? In this class, you’ll learn how to use illustration as a practice to cultivate a more mindful, peaceful, and joyful connection with your plate. You will use these seven prompts, one each day, as inspiration for your illustrations:

1. Breakfast
2. Drink
3. Lunch
4. Ingredient
5. Snack
6. Produce
7. Dinner

Illustrating food has been one of the greatest gifts in my life, and I am so excited to share this practice with you in this class! 

This class is for you if:

• You are seeking a more mindful relationship with your food.
• You are looking to cultivate a more consistent creative practice. 
• You are seeking more peace and joy with your food.
• You are a beginner illustrator.
• You are a professional illustrator.

In This Class, You'll Learn How to:

• Use illustration as a creative practice to cultivate a more mindful relationship with food.
• Use a variety of illustration techniques to see your food in a new way.
• Practice observational skills to cultivate greater awareness for your food.

You'll Walk Away From This Class With:

• A greater sense of connection with your food.
• A greater appreciation of food.
• A new awareness for your food.
• More joy and peace with food.
• The beginning of a consistent creative practice.
• 7 food illustrations to remind you of this practice or share to your portfolio. 
• A more mindful approach to eating.

What You Need:

• A pen or pencil
• Colors (markers, sharpies, paints, colored pencils, whatever you have on hand works great!)
• Blank sheets of paper or a sketchbook
• Food as inspiration

Free Download: 

Ready for more food and art? Download free Prints & Plants Coloring Pages right here: Free Coloring Pages.

Get Social!

Share your journey! Snap a photo of one of your food illustrations and post it to Instagram. Be sure to include #drawandeatwithliz and tag @prints_and_plants so I can cheer you on and share your awesome work to my page! 

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Further Resources

1. Food Justice Organizations:

National Black Food & Justice Alliance

Soul Fire Farm

24 Food Justice Orgs from Civil Eats

The list goes on, and I continue to learn. If there are food justice orgs you love, let me know!

2. “How to Draw: Learning Line”

https://skl.sh/2xtzpG7

3. “How to Draw: Create Compelling Compositions”

https://skl.sh/2LyA4Kf

4. Learn more about Illustration on Skillshare:

https://www.skillshare.com/browse/illustration?via=header

• Welcome! Let's Draw & Eat
• Create Your Class Project
• Gather Your Materials
• Write Down the Prompts
• Day 1: Breakfast
• Day 2: Drink
• Day 3: Lunch
• Day 4: Ingredient
• Day 5: Snack
• Day 6: Produce
• Day 7: Dinner
• Thank You & Next Steps