A comprehensive tut on getting your still life spot on.
01. Prep, prep, prep
This stage is all about testing your composition. If there's something you're not liking, now is the time to change it. Try moving the lighting and repositioning the elements of your still life if need be. Remember that placing objects in front of each other within your composition will enhance the feeling of depth in your painting.This stage is about saving all the hard work and preparation you've put into your painting so far.
Because the brushwork is 'painterly', it is inevitable that some of the ground will show though in the finished painting. This is nothing to worry about – on the contrary, it will add a feeling of harmony to your work. Here, we've gone for a roughly 50 per cent toned ground to use as the mid-tone.Two main aspects to colour are saturation – or the vibrancy of the colour – and tone. These two aspects of colour should be tackled separately, but they always inform each other too.
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