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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #322 Still Life
As I think about the last 3 workshops I had done, it dawned on me that I met so many wonderful people that, at first, I only knew as a name online. It made me realize how great it is to be back, face to face when teaching my classes. Teaching you from afar works just fine but being able to watch you and see you actually in real-time, really speeds up the learning and teaching process. There is so much to see when I watch you paint that I don't see when I am
watching you online. Things like how often you put your brush in the water or how much pigment you are picking up in your palette are all things that I watch and something that you miss when I teach many online. I truly hope and pray that the virus doesn't take away the live classes as it did last year... yes we can learn online and it is fine but I truly love being face to face with you, it makes teaching you so much more enjoyable!
YES TO CLASS at the Civic Center in Libertyville July 22nd 1pm to 3:30pm
YES TO CLASS at The Studio in McHenry July 24th 9am to 11:30
When I attended the American Academy of Art, art school, the first year you learn the fundamentals and one of the fundamental projects you have to learn is to paint still life's. The instructor would set up at least 4 or 5 still life's with all kinds of objects and many times the objects had no particular theme or relation to each other. They were set up to help you learn to draw and paint from life and probably still one of the best ways to learn to do both.
Setting up and painting your own still life is an exercise I highly recommend. Setting up the still life helps you in creating a scene and you determine the lighting and in turn, learn how to create a value pattern. You are handling the objects so you automatically grasp the shape of what you will be drawing and painting.
A still life usually only has about a foot to 2 feet of distance but it is still distance so you will learn how to use overlapping objects to show distance.
When lighting your subject matter and picking out the background you constantly need to be aware of the large light and dark value patterns so the scene will work out when you go to paint it. For instance, if everything in the still life is dark with only small highlights everywhere, this would not make for a great scene, you would maybe look for different light and dark objects so they can play off of each other. You could also have all the same color and then have another object that
is totally a different color to give you that great light and dark value pattern.
You may ask what objects should I use in a still life and to that I would say any objects that you like that are in your house. You probably already have a still life set up in your house on a shelf or a table. A still life could be that book and your reading glasses laying on the table under that lamp that you used to sit there and read that book. It could be the garden tools that are laying on the table that you used for planting your flowers. Still life scenes are everywhere in your
house, you just have to look then light it up really nice and either take a photo of it or paint it live right from the live subject matter.
Have fun searching out those still life's in your home, you will be surprised how many are already set up for you to paint.
Finally, a great use for all those knickknacks you have collected over the years!
David
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