Still-Life Painting Assignment

Outside of Class Painting #1 ART 130

Due two weeks from now: October 10^th.

You are to set up a still life outside of class with at least three colorful, interesting, and related objects. 

The Rules:

·        Use any of the four approaches that we have (or will have) gone over in class

·        Your objects must be related

·        You must make sure that you paint LIFE SIZE or larger

·        Set it up so that you have a strong light source, and always paint at the same time of day.

·        Your subject must be at or just below the viewer’s eye level.

·        Do not crop (or even crowd) your objects, though they may overlap.  Choose a subject small enough to fit easily on your support, and arrange the subject to justify your rectangle shape.

·        Your painting may be no smaller than 9x12 and no larger than 11x14 on any support appropriate for oil painting

·        You must not say “But I don’t have anything interesting to paint. . . “Poppycock!!!  Find a way!  Thinking that way is simply lazy.

Helpful hints

·        Take some time to research some artists that specialized in, or otherwise mastered, still life painting.  Try to paint like them. Fairfield Porter, Janet Fish, William Bailey, Chardin, De Heem, Caravaggio, Emil Carlson, Tom Buechner, Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Georgia O’Keefe, Picasso, Giorgio Morandi. . .all come to mind.  Ask yourself: “How would they do it?”

·        Feel free to bring your partially finished paintings into class for feedback before the due date