For an artist who loves painting, having a still life object to paint is often more comfortable to deal with. Many still life objects are used with oil paintings and have been quite popular in the western world since the 17th century. An artist with still life objects has the opportunity to work with more control over the subject that he or she has chosen. Inevitably still life art prints give the artist an opportunity to render their own story or treatment with the subjects that they have chosen. Objects such as flowers, tableware or fruit often make good choices for paintings. These objects also offer such a beauty and contrast in colors that the artist can use in a paintings. A step-by-step guide to painting a basic still life painting is as follows:

1.Creating the setup

Objects can be manipulated into any arrangement. Choose a subject you want to paint and arrange its setup or reference to suit your still life wall art. For example, in this tutorial, we are drawing some oranges and lemons in a basket.

2. Blocking-in

Start by blocking the shapes of the objects such as the lemons, oranges, and basket on the paper. Do not worry if it starts to gets a little messy, you can fix things later.

3. Establishing the value range

There will be some objects in your painting that you may want to give a greater emphasis to and others that will become secondary. In order to do this, you will need to establish a value range of darker and lighter colors that will help to recede the secondary objects.

4. Draw the background

Before you create any detail with still life art prints, complete the background first. It is more practical to paint objects back to front, as this renders the detailing work easier to paint and give it a 3D appearance.

5. Getting the color composition right

Finally, its time to add the orange and yellow elements to the oranges and lemons themselves. The success of the painting here depends completely on choosing the right composition of colors.

6. Finish the background detailing

After filling in the objects with the appropriatecolors, complete the background. Fill in the detailing of the table or floor on which the basket is placed.

7. Give detailing to the edges and other objects

At this point, you might be close to achieving the exact picture of your still life wall art but there is one thing that needs to be done that is detailing. Detailing gives life to painting, adding minor details like a shadows that can make a painting lcome alive.

8. Finishing touch

Sharpen up the details of the dark and sharp the edges and foreground objects. Finish the painting by applying the final coat of the varnish on the paper.

Conclusion

Still life art prints are a real work of art and depicting inanimate subjects like the objects that may derive from nature like plants, rocks, flowers, and shells. By the same token, subjects can be man-made things such as books, coins, vases or even jewellery placed in an artificial setting. You can choose your own setup of objects and start to paint a still life masterpiece.