Classic Still Life Painting: A Contemporary Master Shows How to Achieve Old Master Effects Using Today's Art Materials

by Jane Jones

Classic Still Life Painting shows artists how to create paintings of sparkling brilliance and jewel-like color that look like they have been lit from within-just like the exquisite paintings of the Renaissance masters of the 16th and 17th centuries. Artists learn techniques similar to those used by Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, and other master painters of the past, including using glazing with colors over a subtle underpainting of tones to achieve the effect of sunlight passing through stained glass. Through the advent of fast drying mediums artists learn that they will be able to achieve the same richness and luminosity found in the works of the old masters.




• The only source available that covers how to create mixed-media artworks with an extensive range of mediums

• Finished examples provide creative inspiration

• A valuable reference that includes technical information and demonstrations

Genres: Art

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I keep underestimating this book. The information seems too basic when I skim it. But when I read carefully, the text and images are full of tips that solve practical problems that I've encountered in real life:

Wipe-out tools (Where have you been all my life!) (18)
Sorting paint colors by opacity (21-22)
Blending without accidentally removing paint (41)
How to make the beautiful, subtle, varigated backgrounds that I see in my favorite paintings (23)
Different colors for the underlayer (latter half of the book)
Lightening a glaze by wiping it away vs. thinning it with medium (98)

I bet that with more experience, even more of this book will "click." Worth buying.