Still Life Oil Painting

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Vince Fazio, and I'm here to talk to you from the Sedona art center about one session oil paintings. We started outdoors with plain air painting as one way of doing a one session painting. I have some samples here. This is near Sedona out in Boyton Canyon, a one session painting. This is a five by seven format. Very small, portable. This is a set of spires near Sedona, and this is another one session oil painting. And another Sedona view, one session painting. So I talked about some of the advantages of doing a one session painting in general, which, part of which is that you're able to do a painting like you would do a drawing, in other words, a painting can become a big grand affair, and it can demand more and more and more, especially on a large scale. Doing a one session painting is more like doing a drawing. More like, you're going to finish it now, so it's about the moment. Another kind of one session painting would be a still life, and I'll show you how to set up something like this to get dramatic lighting, a couple, an onion and an onion skin there. Two apples, one cut in half. This one's onion and grapes. These are kind of in a way traditional still life paintings of food in a small scale, something like that might be sellable. We're going to now take a look at a way of setting that up in an advantageous lighting situation. This is a different kind of painting done from a photograph. Working from photography gives you the possibility of doing something that's very candid, doing a travel scene, doing something that you can really only catch with photography, and then re-looking at it in terms of painting. One of the neat things about that is that you'll be surprised. What will carry over into a painting? What will work? This is a very spontaneously taken photograph of my daughter shopping in Athens, and it worked out great as a little painting. So she's the one in the orange dress. So now I'm going to show you how to set up still life as one of the options."