How To Paint Still Life: Lemon Oil Painting Study

A great classical still life to practice your painting skills on. Try and keep it simple and let each brush mark count.

What you'll learn

Learn how to draw out the shape of your still life in paint. Correct Proportion, Line and Mass is crucial to a successful still life painting.

Learn how to use light high chroma colours such as cadmium yellow next to a dark background in this case ivory black without getting the edge get messed up.

Learn why and when to use a medium such as Venation Turpentine. How does it help the painting process and what benefits do we get from using it.

Understanding colour and using this knowledge to control the dark shadow areas of the lemon.

Requirements

Some experience in painting is useful but not essential as full tuition is given at every step along the painting process. Beginners will enjoy this still life study just as much as more experienced painters. Remember it's the tuition that counts and makes the learning fun.

Description

I loved painting this lemon study and making it into a course for you all to practice on.   A simple still life can be such a pleasure to paint as it allows you to focus on just one item rather than a multitude of trees, buildings or plants.  You will learn so much about controlling your colours to keep them high in chroma especially near the dark areas of the painting and preventing the warm yellows from going green in the shadow zones.  How to paint this project is covered in 7 easy-to-follow step by step tutorial video lessons that you can relax into at your own speed and without the pressure of others around you.All video lessons are in real time with no timelapse or shortcuts and with full tuition at every stage of the painting process.The project can be painted from a live still life setting that you setup or from a downed printable high resolution colour photograph supplied within the downloadable How-to Paint Guide. More of my tutorial drawing and oil painting projects can be found at the Martin Close Art School. an online learning resource for everyone and all ability levels.I hope you all enjoyMartin Close

Overview

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 2 Video Lesson 1

Lecture 3 Video Lesson 2

Lecture 4 Video Lesson 3

Lecture 5 Video Lesson 4

Lecture 6 Video Lesson 5

Lecture 0 Video lesson 6

Lecture 0 Video Lesson 7

This course is for everyone who would like to learn how to paint in oils.,Still life is a great subject to study and benefits all aspects of painting no matter what your experience is. Even if you're interested in landscapes or seascapes a good still life study always has something to teach you.