Still life painting

(Painting of objects)

What is it?

• Still life is defined as a collection of inanimate objects arranged together in a specific way.

• The magic of still life paintings is that they

can show us a new way of looking at the ordinary objects around us. Once they are placed into a specific arrangement and then captured in paint, the light and and shades.

Most important examples

• 16th century in Netherlands

Georg Flegel

• 17th Century

Jacques de Gheyn: Vanitas

• 17th century in Spain: Francisco de Zurbarán

• 19th Century: Paul Cezanne

Techniques

• In order to reflect light and create volume in the fruit we can follow this example:

Look carefully at the light and dark parts and look at how the coloured pencil is used.

STILL LIFE

VALUE IN COLOR SCALE

TINT/ LIGHTER

+ WHITE

SHADE/ DARKER

+ BLACK