Basic Still Life Oil Painting

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Basic Still Life Oil Painting

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Martha Spak

Artist, MLSGallery

www.marthaspak.com  

Martha has been painting for over ten years. Her fine art can be found in private collections and corporations around the country. Visit her website and consider adding a keepsake to be enjoyed for generations.

Oil Painting - Setting up and Arranging the Composition

This video will show how to oil paint and how to set up and arrange the still life compostition.

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Martha Spak: Hi, I am Martha Spak with MLSGallery and I am here to show you how to paint a still life oil painting. Right now I am going to show you how to set-up and arrange a still life composition.

Today I have chosen a simple subject using fruit, pears and I have chosen three pears to put side by side and I am going to lay one on it's side and put it slightly behind the center pear. It's a linear view for a viewer. It's goes from left-to-right or right-to-left. There is another option that you could also chose, which is movement through the painting, back-to-front, front-to-back, but today we are using the linear format. Another important element of choosing and setting-up a still life composition is the lighting. I have a simple swing arm lamp that I use in all my compositions and this helps to decide where I like to place the highlights on the subject or fruit. So right now I am just showing you overhead lighting or left or right lighting and today I am going to choose to place the lamp on the left side, highlighting all the pears in a dramatic way and before we move on I wanted to give you one tip that I use, I take my digital camera and photograph my still life composition so that I can preserve this and use it as I continue my oil painting process. So now let's move on, we are going to set-up our paint palette, mixing mediums and sketch our scene.

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