Hello everyone! Today, I am going to be posting a still-life painting done by me, for all of you. All of my paintings have been done using poster color media, save a few. I have used color pencils for them. Most of the themes of my paintings are those given to us by our arts teacher, and I have painted most of these in school. The paintings I am going to post are in random order, and not according to the order of my painting them. If you have not seen my earlier paintings, please do so. And I hope you will enjoy this:
Painting: Wallet, Mobile, Car Keys, Wristwatch, and Handkerchief:
This still life contains a brown wallet, a mobile phone, a car key, a wrist watch and a handkerchief. In this case, the wallet is the main object, with the remaining four surrounding it. I had kept an olive-green cloth as the background and the foreground. As you can see, there are five objects in the painting. It is generally recommended to select one object as your center piece and then select the other smaller objects to complement it. The complementing objects and the main object may have a matching color scheme, or they may be things which are usually found together.
While painting with poster colors, I recommend mixing dull colors with brighter ones, just because they look a little more real. For example, if you are painting a lemon, you may use a little bit of yellow ochre along with your regular yellow and lemon yellow to give the paint a little more depth. In this particular painting, For the wallet, I have mixed a little yellow ochre along with different shades of brown. For the handkerchief and the mobile phone, you can see that I have not used the pure white color anywhere. Even the lightest tint is a little off-white in color.
Even pure black is a bold color and therefore I have mixed very little white in it while painting the car keys. And as for the straps of the wrist-watch, I started out with peacock blue, and later toned it down and darkened it with Prussian and ultramarine blue. For the background, on the whole, I used a mix of olive green, regular dark green, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, black, and white.
Highlights and shadows are very important to make the painting look real. Most people only use black and white colors. But if required, you may also use a lighter or darker shade of the same color, as required. To make the highlights pop out and to give an extra effect, I use normal color pencils in my highlights. It is clearly visible in the painting.
Well, that is it for today, everyone! I hope you liked the painting and found the tips useful. If you did not like like it, still, stay tuned for more; who knows?, you might like the next post I post. I would recommend you to please check out my other posts, if you haven’t already. Please like, and subscribe to my blog. It’s fun, and it’s free. And most importantly, stay home, and stay safe. Arrivederci!