Still life is about more than just the objects in front of you – composition and lighting do the heavy lifting, accounting for about 70 per cent of the impact. The rest is observation and execution.

This live art-making class is inspired by Walter Stuempfig’s oil painting Still Life (20th century). In this session, we will explore drawing drapery with a focus on the anatomy of folds and creases.

Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting. It’s often seen as a tedious exercise reserved for hyperrealists – or for those who’ve supposedly run out of ideas. But ...

Still life crayon drawing G.C.S.E art By John still life drawing... Title says it all really :P Pencil... By Fairground Tiger Pencil... Same reason as the tiger drawing, a good challenge ...

How to host a 'joyful' still life painting party Artist Laura Dawe shares how to embrace imperfection, find your style and create something beautiful — no experience required.

Hallie Ford Museum of Art’s contemporary still-life exhibit is dynamic, relevant, ... Do you recall the apple that your middle-school art teacher forced you to draw with painstaking detail.

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has ...

The last time the Vanitas still life hit the auction block, at Phillips London in 1994, it was described as being “attributed” to Peeters, and it fetched only £28,000 ($43,709).

In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. ... And it wasn't that much technical drawing methods but really more about the why of things.

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. ... the genre painting Young Student Drawing, created around 1738.