Sharon Stars International SchoolPAINTING
Painting is a fom of piture making. It is a two-dimensional art and it is classiied under Fine Art. It also involves the arangement of lines and colours on a flat
surface like paper, boards, canvass or wall, etc
Still Life Painting: Still life painting is the painting of inanimate objects, that
is, objects without life or lifeless objects.
PREPARATION FOR STILL LIFE PAINTING
1. Assemble your painting mateials such as colours, brushes, palette, palet
knife and water before the exercise.
3. Spend a few minutes to examine the composition or arrangement of the Object
2. Choose your range of colour to select a view that appeals to you most.
4. Make an outline of the basic shapes of the objects before your composition
Check for corectness of shapes, sizes, positioning, relationship an
5. Studying the effects of light on the parts of the various objects.
6. To obtain a darker tone of any colour, add slightly darker colour in your palette
or a little bit of black. This could be applied to dark areas of the objects drawn.
8. To liahten a colour white is added to it or a related colour like yellow which warm colour is used to apply to light areas or source of the light on the objed
drawn.
9 Cool colours are for dark areas of objects, while wam colours are used showing bright parts and areas of highlight.
Nature Painting: Nature painting refers to the study and painting of plant and animal life as they exist in nature.
landscape painting: Landscape painting refers to a paiting representing or showing a view of natural land scenery done in colour or paint.
Imaginative Painting Composition: Imaginative . painting is the Composition done from memory of real or imagined life rather than from a set model. It is simply a painting of objecis from memory.
Figure or Life Painting: Figure painting is the painting of human figures.
It is an area that studies the paintings of human intricate forms. The first important
task in figure painting is obtaining a model. A model is any person who poses for
people to draw. However, a student-artist may ask a friend, brother r or sister to
pose for painting.
MATERIAL FOR PAINTING
Brush
Colors
Paper
Palette
Palette knifes
Drawing boards
Easels
Cardboard sheets