Realistic still life painting demo

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Still life oil painting demonstration. A larger painting this time. I used a slow medium (3 parts linseed oil 1 part Graham Walnut Alkyd) so I could paint wet into wet for several days (during the night I put the painting in the freezer). In this way, the first 2 days the paint is very liquid and the 3d day it gets a bit sticky. This allows different techniques to be used each day.

In the movie you can see how frequently I take the painting off the easel. As I painted in artificial light (in a darkened room), I often take it into day light to check if it looks ok.

I just uploaded an image of my setup to

http://josvanriswick.blogspot.com/2011/07/still-life-setup-for-lemon-still-li...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• still
• life
• oil
• painting
• realist
• realism
• demo
• demonstration

[josvanr]

Calculating back from the number of snapshots: 13.6 hours. But this is not counting breaks, interruptions etc...

[KittyTempleton]

Fab as always. Could you please show us how you set up your still lifes for painting including the light source etc. Thanks

[josvanr]

@KittyTempleton hi, please see my blog (see the link in the description of this movie)...

[suntanners]

Welke borstels gebruik je AUB. Hog bristle?

[josvanr]

@suntanners het meeste borstel ik erop met kwasen van Xenos. Dit is varkenshaar (hog) maar minder hard dan de 'kwaliteits'-kwasten die ik ken. Ze hebben de goeie lengte (lang haar). Meestal maak ik ze nog wat platter door er aan de zijkanten haren af te knippen. De kwaliteit is idd niet heel goed, soms moet ik de bus met plakband vastplakken. Maar ik ken geen andere kwast die kan wat deze kan. Verder gebruik ik nog Vincent ('ox hair'), 1 marterharen sleper en een kleine runderhaar kwast.

[greg90pl]

hey I notice you are handling your values and paint in general really well. My question to you is: how do you prevent your painting from becoming muddy when painting wet into wet. A lot of times even when I try to add a dark or light accent (for example, the deep cast shadow underneath the lemons) they usually come out very grey and not as dark as I would like. Same goes for color accents as well, where the color sort of blends with the paint rather than stay on top. Any advice?

[josvanr]

@greg90pl Hmm it sounds as if you are using low-pigmented paint, ie. student quality. With this kind of paint it is difficult to paint wet into wet, as it contains too much oil and filler, so not enough capacity to cover paint that is already there. I use Old Holland paints, with that one its easy to paint over. For my palette, please cf the faq on my site (josvanriswick. com). Alternatives are Williamsburg or maybe Rembrandt and Winsor & Newton Artist Grade paint...

[TheANBart]

This is such a dream. It looks "easy" (for a talented person) but this is still on a completely different level. I love how it looks in 2nd minute the most ^^

[nessieanderson]

I can't stop watching these videos; these would go good with some music! You have such inspiring artwork

[ClMarie]

So beautiful!!! I've just discovered your site. Thanks so much!! Blessings always, Cl-Marie

[gorgonramsay]

@josvanr I always wondered the same thing - thanks!



[hushcolours]

You're too good.

It's not fair :-)

[TheLMack]

How many hours did this take?

[alankingwell]

Brilliant.