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Eric Wert On Painting a Realistic Still Life Commission
How a still life commission led to a gratifying collaboration between artist and collector.
How to Paint a Still Life in an Hour
In this interview with Eric Rhoads, artist and educator Mandy Theis walks us through her steps for painting a beautiful still life in just an hour. Watch or follow along!
Realism Art Guide: Portrait, Figure, and Still Life Paintings
Accelerate your realism art by studying from the finest artists in the world who are creating portraits, figurative art, and still life paintings. Realism Today is the FREE weekly publication for the realism movement...
Magnolia Still Life: A Realistic Watercolor Step-by-Step
See how a painting that includes leaves, crystal, and some unexpected challenges comes to fruition, step by step.
Still Life Realism: Getting Lost in the Process
Laurin McCracken is a realist watercolorist whose work is largely influenced by the Dutch and Flemish still life painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. In this guest blog post, he takes us into his process for painting: "It is like a very good novel; you want it to go on forever."
Watercolor Still Life: Why I Paint Withered Sunflowers
Inspired by a symbolic circle of life, Soon Y. Warren shares why and how she paints sunflowers using watercolor. Bonus: View her realistic still lifes that show a mastery of painting crystal.
Flowers and Faces: Photorealistic Still Life Portraits
Inspired by the women in her life, Narelle Zeller is creating a series titled "In Bloom," which is also a collaboration with a talented florist who creates custom pieces for the portrait paintings. Discover Zeller's process in this exclusive article.
Eric Wert: Inspired by Dutch Still Life
Go behind the scenes of how Eric Wert creates masterful Dutch-inspired still life paintings of subjects that are common, yet "unknowable."
Bringing a Deeper Meaning to Still Life Art
"Finding a clever connection between objects and observations can be exciting but it’s important to avoid the pitfall of letting the message overwhelm the mechanics." Katharine Krieg explains why the constant underlying job of any painter is to make a structurally sound painting with building blocks like balance, value, and good drawing.
Still Life Spotlight: From the Hearth
Congratulations to Barbara S. Groff, whose work has been recognized in the PleinAir Salon.