Still life painting can be creative or exercise-oriented. The former is a genre of creation, that is, reflecting a certain theme through the theme of still life. For example, there is a still life creation entitled "Relics of Soldiers", which combines the relics used by fallen soldiers in war life, such as helmets, backpacks, kettles, etc., into a still life, which makes the audience feel deeply nostalgic and reverent for the young soldiers who died for their country. As the basic study of gouache, still life sketching is different from creation. It is a subject with teaching and research significance, mainly to understand the performance of gouache, master the tools skillfully and use the color law. It is a teaching activity aimed at training techniques. The content, progress and requirements of still life sketch must be based on the proposed teaching plan. This is the difference in nature between still life sketching and still life creation.
how to organize still life
(1) In still life sketching, we should pay special attention to designing and arranging the sketched still life, which depends on teachers' experience and accomplishment in this respect, and must also have fully complete props and equipment, including all kinds of objects with perfect shape, different shapes, sizes, colors and textures, as well as large and small interlining with different hue, purity, lightness, warmth and coldness, texture and so on. Designing and arranging a group of still life sketches with artistic conception will certainly stimulate students' interest and enthusiasm in learning, which will help to obtain better teaching results.
(2) To decorate a color still life, we should first establish the theme, and then choose various objects that meet the requirements of the theme. A theme is the central content of a group of still lives. A group of still life can't contain too many miscellaneous contents, especially can't put together items that have no connection in meaning and are not in harmony in form. The unity of content and form is an important principle to form a still life. If the still life is based on the items related to farm life, the simple pastoral flavor and rural sentiment can be produced by choosing fruits and vegetables, farm household pottery, blue flower porcelain basin and hat apron to form a still life; If you use a still life composed of milk bread, glass basin, cutlery, glass bottle and coffee set, you will think of the western food style. Two groups of different still lives, and the contents of the selected objects, are closely related to different themes. If you put coffee sets, knives and forks in the first group of still lives and a pumpkin in the second group of still lives, it will be extremely uncoordinated. Therefore, to combine still life, we must first make clear the theme, select relevant objects, and then arrange them according to the coordinated formal rules, so as to make the whole unified and aesthetic.
The display of still life, daily utensils and other objects that are often used are mostly designed by practical artists through modeling and decoration according to practical and aesthetic requirements. It often reflects the living customs, aesthetic tastes and artistic styles of people in different times, nationalities and regions. If there are different characteristics of classical, modern, oriental and western. In style, there are elegant and simple, simple and simple, full and solemn, light and beautiful, magnificent and exquisite, and so on. When combining still life, we can't ignore these characteristics. We should try our best to fully show different styles through the selection of utensils, colors, composition and other means. Still life often requires temporary purchase of fresh fruits, flowers and other items as the main objects of still life. When purchasing this kind of fruits, we should consider whether the shape and color meet the requirements of sketch. Generally, there are many round fruits. In order to avoid the single shape, we can mix them with bananas, grapes and other varieties with different shapes to achieve better results. Pumpkins, tomatoes, eggplants, scallions, radishes, corn cobs and vegetables in agricultural products, and all kinds of fish and crabs in aquatic products are very good subjects for sketching. Of course, fresh items, which take a long time to sketch, are easy to deteriorate and need to be replaced halfway. You can draw the items that are easy to deteriorate first.