1. Still Life

2. What is a still Life? A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages , still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then. Still life gives the artist more freedom in the arrangement of elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture.

3. Glass bowl of fruit and vases. Roman wall painting in pompeii from around 70 AD

4. Still Lifes Have many styles

5. Van Gogh

6. Picasso

7. Baraque

8. You may focus on different details Negative Space

9. Negative Space

10. Contour Study

11. Contour Study

12. Tonal Study

13. Tonal Study

14. Almost every artist has done a still life

15. Vincent Van Gogh

16. Henre Matisse

17. Salvador Dali

18. Georgia O’Keefe

19. Now It’s your turn • Choose where you want to sit for your favorite composition. Each view is a little different. • Using a viewfinder, draw three compositional sketches in your sketchbook. Once you are done, talk to me about which composition you chose to draw. • After you figure out which composition you chose to do, find the size of paper you need, and crop the paper for your composition. • Draw the NEGATIVE SPACE of the still life. This means no contour line. After you are done drawing, ink in the negative space using Indian ink.

20. Sight Measuring • Dominant Eye • Arm Position • Unit of Measurement