You can use various house items for the setting.
Painting a still life picture can be very easy. As opposed to portraits and landscapes, still life pictures allow the artist a greater control of the composition and proportion. Still life arose from religious images painted in the Middle Ages. Such views continued throughout the 15th century and the Renaissance, and only with the beginning of the Baroque period still life became an art theme, free from religious or allegorical meanings.
Instructions
1. Arrange your still life setting. It is an important stage of the creative process and requires time. Pay attention to the direction of the light and the viewing angle. All shadows must point out to one light source.
2. Draw simple lines to define the space and shape of each subject. Hard edges attract the eye, so use hard edges in the focal areas of your painting.
3. Start the painting from the main subjects and details you want to concentrate on. For example bananas, or another kind of fruit, or figures; also, think about colors you will use.
4. Leave blank areas, which will be used for the highlights and leaves of the fruits.
5. Draw the first paint layer. Work on the light and dark areas of the painting, foreground and background. Many dark paint colors are not opaque, so you will not be able to paint your shadows as dark as you want with the first paint layer.
6. Let the first layer dry and then darken it with another layer of paint. The shadows get darker as they move away from the object.
7. Give form to the main subjects of your art. Focus on the balance of the major areas of the painting and develop the color and value relationship between them.
8. Define the light and shadow and enrich the colors of the subjects. Pay close attention to the reflective colors from other subjects in the setting.
9. Add colors to the different areas of the composition one layer at a time to make the painting more detailed and interesting.
