Drawing Skills
A Kitchen-Table Still Life Checklist
A short checklist for setting up a still life on a kitchen table, from the light and the crop to the ellipse and the values.
Tag
still life
4 posts tagged "still life".
Drawing Skills
Comparative Measuring for Reliable Drawings
How to compare one part of a drawing with another, using halfway marks and plumb lines instead of guesswork.
Drawing Skills
Drawing Ellipses on Cups, Plates and Wheels
How to draw an ellipse that stays symmetrical, and how the angle of a cup or wheel changes the curve.
Art History
Vanitas Still Life: Objects That Keep Time
How vanitas still life used ordinary objects to talk about time, and how to borrow the looking without the costume.