Video: Framing a Pastel Still Life

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Still life pastel paintings do not recreate reality but imitate it according to the artist's desire. Learn how to decide what goes into your still life painting in this free video.

- Adding Initial Background Color in Pastel Paintings
- Refining Edges with Pastel Background Colors

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Ok. Now as I look at this you'll notice that in our still life over here that there's a poster up there. And, the way that I have the still life framed all we would see of that poster is the very bottom of it. Which, wouldn't provide very much information. If we just saw the bottom of that, it would be confusing. We're creating a piece of art. We're not recreating reality. That poster as nice as it is isn't going to be, there's not going to be enough of it in the painting frame that I established for the primary items of interest to be worth dealing with. So, I'm just going to eliminate it. It doesn't exist in our painting. I'm just going to forget about it and do our background using again that same yellow to create the area behind where the flowers will go to help establish. And I'm going right where that poster would be as if it didn't exist. Because in our painting it won't exist. It's not important.

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Framing a Pastel Still Life

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