Still Life Painting

The clematis flower provides opportunities for the artist learning how to paint flowers to use splashes of colour and expressive brush strokes.

Sep 30, 2009 - Rachel Wills

Flowers provide abundant inspiration for the artist, but they can also cause pitfalls. A few painting tips may help the artist progress in floral painting.

Sep 23, 2009 - Rachel Wills

A painting of flowers can only be as good as the photograph available. A few tips will increase the artist's likelihood of producing vibrant floral paintings.

Sep 22, 2009 - Rachel Wills

Sunflower oil paintings never fail to catch the eye for the rare opportunity they provide the artist in using pure colors. The following oil painting tips show how.

Sep 21, 2009 - Rachel Wills

Learning how to paint flowers such as the petunia plant, particularly in their natural setting is likely to yield satisfying results for the artist.

Sep 18, 2009 - Rachel Wills

Strawberries offer the ideal opportunity to explore bright colours against a subdued background. This step-by-step demonstration in oils shows how.

Sep 8, 2009 - Rachel Wills

Wet into wet relies upon happy accidents by pigments bleeding into one another. The riot of colour that flowers offer is an ideal subject matter for this technique.

Aug 23, 2009 - Rachel Wills

This demonstration on oil painting a still life with a garden shed with tools compliments a technique known as sgraffito, which involves scoring the paint.

Jul 16, 2009 - Rachel Wills

Part of the battle of executing a successful painting of still life is the arrangement of the objects.

Apr 28, 2009 - Rachel Wills