
Transform an empty canvas into a beautiful still life oil painting by mastering composition, color, and mixing, step by step across seven lessons with minimal supplies.
Outline supplies for easy still life oil painting: seven and nine and a half inch canvases or cardboard, synthetic brushes, nine colors, pencil, palette, turpentine, linseed oil, and two bowls.
Set up your working area with two bowls of turpentine for brush washing and linseed oil for paint, and arrange canvas, palette, brushes, and a printout of your photo reference.
Master three composition guidelines for still life painting: the rule of thirds, an odd-numbered object arrangement, and the L-shaped structure to create balanced, engaging compositions.
Transfer outlines to your still life oil painting using carbon paper, matching the reference photo to your canvas, and plan the composition with a horizon line in the lower third.
Practice the painting process for a still-life avocado on a wooden panel, covering background and underpainting, color mixing, shadow and highlight detailing, reflections, and finishing touches.
Master final details in a still life oil painting by layering color, tightening edge separation, enhancing highlights and cast shadows, and refining reflections and background to revive vibrancy after drying.
Varnish the dry painting to protect color. Apply a few drops of Tyroon or Dumar varnish with a soft brush, wipe dust, and dry for 24 hours away from sunlight.
Visual arts are one of the most powerful and widely used languages nowadays. To speak that language, and make people understand you correctly, we have to master the craft.
Through my years as a painting teacher, I realised that a simple approach to mastering the media is the key.
And the question should be raised not "How do you paint this?", but "What do you think, when you paint?"
What you will learn
Artists are visual learners. But studying art by only seeing how it is done is only one part of an apple. Explaining why you do this and how - is the other half.
For this course you will need access to a colour printer.
I will walk you through all the painting processes that include:
*still life composition tips
*colour mixing
*underpainting and painting process
*painting textures and details
This course is for beginners and advanced students who already have some drawing and colour painting skills and wish to proceed to the next level.
After you finish this course, you will have the fundamental knowledge of how to see, analyse and paint almost any object in the future.