Still-life painters focus on inanimate objects under a controlled light source. More than landscape painting, portraiture, or figurative work, still-life painting is a great way to practice, mainly ...

Still Life Painting Tutorials : A still life is an exercise in design, as the artist arranges the elements. Learn what it takes to make a great still life painting—what makes an interesting still life ...

The term ‘still life’ was derived from the Dutch word 'stilleven', with Dutch and Flemish painters depicting various subjects including dead game, meat, bread and decadent, blooming vases of flowers.

Eric Rimmington, who has died aged 98, was an artist whose skills as a draughtsman were evident in a range of genres, from ...

Although the author of this still life is not known, it is close to the early work of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, one of the most gifted seventeenth century Dutch still-life painters. Indeed, during ...

At a time where women had barely any possibility to educate themselves in any field, including the field of painting, it is remarkable that Rachel Ruysch managed to develop her talent, growing to be ...

“But, for Rimmington, this is only the start. “For the greatest still-life painters – the ones who animate the inanimate – the picture plane is not just an abstract space for shifting ...

[4] Like other still life painters of his generation, his work was influenced by the leading Dutch still life painter Jan Davidsz. de Heem who worked in Antwerp for a long period. Willem Gabron ...