Still life isn’t just about bowls of fruit or dusty vases – it’s a powerful way to sharpen your observational skills, deepen your understanding of form, texture, and light, ...

Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting. It’s often seen as a tedious exercise reserved for hyperrealists – or for those who’ve supposedly run out of ideas.

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

How to host a 'joyful' still life painting party Artist Laura Dawe shares how to embrace imperfection, find your style and create something beautiful — no experience required.

Except there was an art book sitting on a little ottoman in front of me, and on the cover of it was a still-life painting. It was a 17th century Dutch breakfast painting.

Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still Judith Linhares’s works comprise just a few elements, yet they are bodied forth in endless permutations that convey both whimsy and menace.

For clay/pottery, Nancy Norman says that “working in clay can be very simple or extraordinarily complex, best of all, it’s ...

In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. The hunk of cheese goes uneaten. The candles do not flicker. That's the rule according to the ...

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.