Still life has been a popular form of art for many hundreds of years, offering a wide choice of subjects, styles, and scale. Whether you want to work outdoors or at home, with carefully detailed studies or bold sweeps of line, with classical subjects or simple objects that you might find in your home, you will never be at a loss to find inspiration.
In Drawing Still Life, Barrington Barber explores this genre in all its richness. A teacher as well as a working artist, his clear and comprehensive instruction for artists of all levels is supported by easy-to-follow illustrations.
• Includes information and advice on materials and techniques
• Covers ways of representing different objects and textures
• Looks at different approaches to combining objects, themes, and at composition
• Offers step-by-step drawings and exercises to practise
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