Hello everybody, I hope you are all well. Lots of people are keeping busy during the lockdown by trying their hand at baking, I know I have. Have you been baking at all? This week let's take a look at artist Wayne Thiebaud's still life paintings, you might notice a common theme. Wayne Thiebaud paints a lot of sweet treats! This week your challenge is to use a treat as the subject of a still life. It's your choice for what media you want to use - pastels, watercolor, acrylic, torn paper, crayon, sidewalk chalk, pencil, etc! Work from real life ! Set up the food on the table where you can work. Try putting it up on a stand by stacking some books until its at eye level. This can give a "right in front of you" point of view instead of looking down at it. Sketch it out first. Do a quick, light drawing to get the main shapes on the page, then refine by adding detail. His compositions are simple a...
