🍰🎨Fig Cheesecake Watercolor Sketch Tutorial (Patreon)

Our new Friday lesson is here! This time, we’re painting something sweet and delicious — Fig Cheesecake💜

In this step-by-step watercolor lesson, we’ll paint a creamy slice of cheesecake topped with rich fig sauce, fresh figs, and pistachios. We’ll work with soft creamy tones and deeper berry shades, create different food textures, and add small details that make the sketch feel bright and delicious.

It’s a lovely project for practicing watercolor layers, color transitions, highlights, shadows, and tiny details without making the composition too complicated. ☺️

As always, you’ll find the reference photo and tracing template attached to the lesson, so you can choose whether to draw the sketch yourself or use the template and jump straight into watercolor.

Prepare your paints, brushes, and a cup of something tasty, and let’s paint together! ☕️🎨

Happy sketching! 👩‍🎨✨

🎨Here’s the palette we’ll use in this lesson (substitutes in parentheses):

Quinacridone Red PV19 [Daniel Smith] (Carmine PV19)

Cadmium Yellow Medium PY35 [Whits Nights] (Indian Yellow PY150 [M.Graham])

Light Ochre PY43 [Daniel Smith]

Ultramarine PB29 [Daniel Smith]

Phthalo Blue PB15 [Daniel Smith] (Cyan PB15)

Burnt Umber PBr7 [Daniel Smith] (Van Dyke Brown PR102/PBk8 [Jackson's])

Magenta PR202 [Schmincke] (Quinacridone Red PV19 [Daniel Smith] or Carmine PV19)

Share your sketch:

On Instagram with the hashtag #dreamanddrawschool and tag my profile @dreamanddraw.school

In our chat 🎨Dream&Draw Club: Sketches & Homework 👉 https://www.patreon.com/dreamanddrawschool/chats (or go to Community > Chats > 🎨Dream&Draw Club: Sketches & Homework)

Watch the preparatory lessons:

Materials video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sketching-80343147

Liner and Pencil Practice video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liner-and-pencil-80344410

Watercolor Practice video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/watercolor-video-80345551