PAINTING A STILL LIFE
Video 1: A Brief History of Still Life Painting
The cultural context for the genre of still life painting gives a deeper understanding of this form of art. For this first video, students should post expamples of still life painting in notebooks.
Watch Video 1: A Brief History of Still Life Painting
Watch Video 2: Painting a Still Life
This video gives a protocol for painting a still life, loosely based on traditional practice: beginning with a dark ground and building layers of glazes.
Artists always develop their own way of painting, but this protocol is a good place to start. These traditional methods were initially based on oil painting, but changed somewhat and adapted to acrylics.
Directions, rubric, vocabulary, and teaching notes below.