Still life painting

(Painting of objects)
 What is it?
• Still life is defined as a collection of inanimate
objects arranged together in a specific way.

• The magic of still life paintings is that they

can show us a new way of looking at the
ordinary objects around us. Once they are
placed into a specific arrangement and then
captured in paint, the light and and shades.
 Most important examples
• 16th century in Netherlands

Georg Flegel
• 17th Century

Jacques de Gheyn:
Vanitas
• 17th century in Spain: Francisco de
Zurbarán
• 19th Century: Paul Cezanne
 Techniques
• In order to reflect light and create volume in the fruit we can
follow this example:

Look carefully at the light and dark parts and look

at how the coloured pencil is used.
 TINT/ LIGHTER
+ WHITE

SHADE/ DARKER
+ BLACK

VALUE IN COLOR SCALE

STILL LIFE