Preparing their Still Life projects

Today was an exciting beginning for new ideas. The girls prepared a composition using almost the same elements in a Still Life, incorporating different textures such as glass, wood, clay, basket or fabric into the image they wanted to create.
The idea was to get inspired in "Dutch Still Life (e.g. Pieter Claesz)" as we see in the image above.

With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound.

I took pictures of each and every one of them and then had them sketch it in pencil. Look at the wonderful compositions these young artist created:





Maddy



Lauren


Sofia


Taylor


Paula



Katie




Agnes



Alicia

Alexa


Keep posted to see how these ideas will develop in great acrylic paintings! Good luck to All.