Abstract Still Life Painting Demonstrations

Explore a loose still life of wine and oranges, emphasizing composition, palette harmony, and on-surface mixing to create a cool palette with warm accents.

Explore how asymmetrical composition and a strong off-center vertical create a guiding pathway through the still life. Balance circles and diagonals to achieve a cool palette with warmth.

Create a still life of oranges and blueberries through collage on Bristol paper, patching shapes, building texture, and refining with blue and orange tones and a grey crayon.

Demonstrates a dry brush technique with cerulean blue to render blueberries and oranges, refine shadows with bone black and titanium white, and shape the saucers for a lifelike still life.

Analyze how composition shapes and vertical breaks create variety in this still life, using a dominant blue palette with oranges to balance cool and warm tones.

Demonstrate a loose still life using acrylics to build a layered collage of blue flowers and lemon slices, mixing cobalt blue, cerulean blue, green gold, and yellows on Bristol paper.

watch a vase and lemons still life demo layering yellows and blues, drying wet paint with a hair dryer, and building flowers and edges with collage paper, brushes, and pencil.

Explore how a dominant vertical element and an umbrella-shaped floral cluster create balance through large, medium, and small shapes, with blue tablecloth and lemon wedges enhancing color harmony.

Create a loose abstract still life by composing coffee cups and flowers on Bristol paper, using collage textures, layering earth tones, and expressive line work.

Explore how an l-shaped arrangement uses large, medium, and small vases, with overlapping elements, a blue vertical vase and pink cup, and white flowers to create a light, neutral composition.

Explore an acrylics and mixed media still life demo featuring a tea kettle, collage paper background, and hand-drawn details, with layered color, texture, and off-center composition on a white tabletop.

Explore how an l-shaped still life uses large, medium, and small shapes and a warm neutral palette with a green accent to connect table, background, and teapot through the handle.

Paint five varied fish using ink and collage, building free, expressive shapes with washes, texture, and layered marks; cut and glue heads for a dynamic still-life composition.

Explore how a contemporary abstract still life uses a strong vertical movement, balanced with horizontals, neutral black, white, and gray on a warm yellow background, letting white fish pop.

An acrylic collage still-life demo builds a 20x25 inch piece using scrap paper and bone block to craft a striped tablecloth and plan a wine bottle, lemons, oranges, and glasses.

Create a loose still life collage by cutting and gluing strips of dry black college paper over a table, adding earthy colors and a wine bottle as the focal point.

Create a two-piece collage still life of a wine bottle label, pears, and citrus shapes by gluing cutouts, adjusting scale for variety, and blending colors with a water-soluble crayon.

Ground the scene by blending shadows and color, using blues, earth tones, and white highlights across the wine bottle, glasses, tablecloth, and salt shakers in a loose mixed-media approach.

Refine a still life by adding cast shadows, redefining edges with line and charcoal, and balancing background color and composition around the wine bottle.

Analyze the dominant tablecloth shape and the vertical wine bottle to understand composition. See how circles, oranges, diagonals, and warm with cool color accents create movement across the painting.

Explore a large-scale orchid still life created with acrylics and collage on Strathmore mixed-media paper; block in a loose composition, blend wet-on-wet colors, and build a framed tabletop scene.

Cut, collage with paper, and paint orchid pots and leaves, then glue dark scrap trunks and branches, dry edges, and finish with subtle greens.

Finish the orchids with bone black and warm yellows, building a loose, abstract composition through scratching, palette knife textures, and a second, thicker coat while preserving the paper texture.

Join the ongoing class of abstract still life painting demonstrations, tackle new projects, expand your repertoire, and create amazing art as you explore fresh ideas and tricks.