STILL LIFE DRAWING

Welcome to class!

In today’s class, we will be talking about still life drawing. Enjoy the class!

This is the drawing of non-living inanimate or man-made objects. Practical still life drawing exposes and teaches students the following;

Basic techniques of drawing, composition and painting.
Proficiency in handling different art media.
Builds the student on the step by step approach to rendering and interpreting tone, mass, depths and colour.
Regular practice to develop and strengthen the student’s natural drawing and observatory abilities.
The drawing, composition and painting skills learnt from still life drawing can be applied to any other subject in art.

To express the artist acquired drawing or painting style or skill.
To capture the unfading beauty of objects as depicted through the eyes of the artist.
To reflect the status of the target audience.
For their symbolic meaning guided a theme.
To explore it as a controlled medium to express the abstract quality of the visual element in objects.

Still life drawing is an observational drawing, so always look at what you are drawing to get details and shapes, proportion, source of light and colour.
Apply your understanding of perspective.
Use grid marks, guidelines or a light rough sketch to get the proportion straight before adding details.
Keep the outlines light as a real object, do not have dark lines running around every edge, rather they are defined by a change in tone or colour. This means the darker the lines, the change in meaning connotation.
Observe and interpret a good range of tone.
Include or omit details as you deem necessary.
Mark making techniques can be used to depict texture where necessary.

In our next class, we will be talking about Nature Drawing. We hope you enjoyed the class.

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