Basic Still Life Techniques (North Light Basic Painting Series)

132 Pages·1994·21.829 MB·English

by  Rachel Wolf, Rachel Rubin Wolf (editor)

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Mask- Still Life Techniques. Copyright © 1994 by North Light Books. Printed and bound in Hong Kong. All
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Basic still life techniques edited by Rachel Wolf.-1st ed.
p. cm.- (North Light basic painting series)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-89134-588-4
1. Still-life painting-Technique. I. Wolf, Rachel. II. Series.
ND1390.B27 1994
"51.4-dc20 93-48568
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3l19f02<,?99ifS-° 3/1 CIP
Edited by RachelWolf
Interior design by Sandy Conopeotis
Cover design by Paul Neff
Artwork and text originally appeared in previously published North Light Books. (The initial page numbers
given refer to pages in the original work; page numbers in parentheses refer to pages in this book.)
Albert Greg. DrawingYou CanDoIt! © 1992. Pages 94-95, 102-103, 108-109, 122-123 (pages 24-25, 38-39,
40-41, 42-43).
Dawson, Doug. CapturingLight andColor WithPastel © 1991. Pages 4-5 (pages 4-5).
Katchen, Carole. CreativePainting WithPastels © 1990. Pages 48-49 (pages 64-65) by BillJames; pages 2,
68-71 (pages viii, 102-105) byJane Lund; pages 25, 114-117 (pages 72, 98-101) by Richard Pionk.
Katchen, Carole.DramatizeYourPaintingsWith TonalValue © 1993. Pages 60, 63, 89, 91, 64-65 (pages 29,
44, 48, 49, 50-51; pages 110-111 (pages94-95) byjubb, Kendahljan; pages 54-55 (pages92-93) byWilliam
Wright.
Kunz,Jan. Painting WatercolorFlorals That Glow © 1993. Pages 44-45, 102-103, 104, 118-119 (pages 20-
21, 66-67, 68, 88-89).
Kunz,Jan. Watercolor Techniques: Painting theStillLife © 1991. Pages 28-29, 32-33 (pages 90-91, 96-97).
Lehrman, Lewis Barrett. Energize YourPaintings With Color © 1993. Page 60 (page ii), by Ted Goerschner;
pages 22-29 (pages 56-63), byjoni Falk.
Moran, Patricia. Painting theBeauty ofFlowers With Oils © 1991. Pages 96-98, 84-85 (pages 69-71, 78-79).
Pike,Joyce. OilPainting: ADirectApproach © 1988. Page 57 (page 13).
Pike,Joyce. PaintingFlowers WithJoycePike © 1992. Pages 51, 52-53, 20-21, 40-41, 24-25, 29-33, 22-23,
54-55, 56-57, 114-115 (pages 12, 14-15, 16-17, 18-19, 36-37, 73-77, 80-81, 82-83, 84-85, 86-87).
Smuskiewicz, Ted. OilPaintingStep byStep © 1992. Pages 16-17, 232-33, 42-43 (pages 22-23, 52-53, 54-55).
Sovek, Charles. OilPainting: Develop YourNaturalAbility © 1991. Pages 5, 61, 12-13, 14-15, 22-23. 30, 78-
79 (pages 3, 5, 26-27, 28-29, 30-31, 2^-27, 45, 46-47).
Stine, Al. WatercolorPaintingSmart © 1990. Pages 6-7, 12-13, 16-18, 32-35 (pages 2, 6-11).
Woolwich, Madlyn-Ann C. PastelIntrepretations © 1993- Pages 104-10"7 (pages 110-113) byJill Bush; pages
108-109 (pages 114-115) by Foster Caddell; pages 102-103 (108-109) byTim Gaydos; page 90 (page v) by-
William Persa; pages 100 (page 106) by Mary Sheehan; pages 92-93 (pages 116-117) byAnita Wolff.
Opposite title page:AmberJug, TedGoerschner, 24"xl8\ oilon canvas
Stars andStripesandaPumpkin
WilliamPersa
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
20"x2<?'
pastelonpaper
The people who deserve special thanks, and without whom
this bookwould not have been possible, are the artists and
authors whose work appears in this book. They are:
GregAlbert Patricia Moran
Jill Bush William Persa
Foster Caddell Joyce Pike
Doug Dawson Richard Pionk
Joni Falk Scott Prior
Tim Gaydos Mary Sheehan
Ted Goerschner Ted Smuskiewicz
BillJames Charles Sovek
KendahlJanJubb Al Stine
Carole Katchen AnitaWolff
Jan Kunz Madlyn-Ann C. Woolwich
Lewis Barrett Lehrman William Wright
Jane Lund
TABLE
of
CONTENTS
Introduction Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three ChapterFour Chapter Five
BASIC GETTING DEPICTING LIGHT AND UNDER-
MATERIALS STARTED FORM SHADOW STANDING
Everything Setting the Painting Three VALUES COLOR
You'11Need Scene Dimensions A Strong PRINCIPLES
• • Foundation TheBasics and
Materials for Oil Collecting Still- Massing In
Painting Life Objects Shape and • More
Make Your
Gesture
• • DrawingClearer
Materials for Arranging the The Primary
Watercolor Setup Defining the • Colors
Painting Form ofan Enhance the
• Illusion of
• Design and Object Depth Hue, or Family
Materials for Composition • of Color
Pastel Painting Beyond Simple •
Backg•round Shapes SCtoremnpgotshietniotnhe Tonal Value
and Negative •
Space Painting Groups Intensity or
of Objects Painting a Saturation
• Value Scale
Starting Out •
With Oil PaWihntoilneg a Using Value to LaenadrnMiinxg GtoooSede
Assem•ble a Composition CreoafteInateCreesntter Color
Still Life • •
Doing a Shadow•s and The Palette and
Preliminary Mood Color Wheel
Drawing
12
52
26 38
ChapterSix ChapterSeven ChapterEight ChapterNine Index
SPECIAL DEMONSTRATIONS IN DEMONSTRATIONS IN DEMONSTRATIONS IN
OIL WATERCOLOR PASTEL
TECHNIQUES
118
ForSome
BeginningWith Basket ofFruit Working From a
Difficult a Neutral Tone B&W Photo
Subjects
Casting
• FruitWith Shadows Interesting
Transparent Luster Studio Light
Surfaces in
Watercolor • DesigningWith •
Iris and Hat Black Rendering Fine
• Detail
Reflective
Surfaces in Pretty Bouquet Daisies:
Watercolor Painting Enhance Mood
•
Reflective With Contrast
• Setting in the Surfaces
Reflective and Yard •
Transparent CreatingValue
Objects in Oil Patterns: Two
88 Views
• 78
Surfaces for •
Pastel Painting Subdued Color
for Intimacy
•
Using the Brush •
With Oil LayeringWith
Fixative for a
GlowingSurface
Using the Knife
With Oil
98
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JaneLund
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