Article · Will Kemp Art School
How to Paint an Impressionistic Still Life: A Step-by-Step Guide
By Will Kemp
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
A small impressionistic painting of purple flowers in a vase, done in about ten photographed steps: a colour study, priming the board, sketching, mapping values with acrylic markers, shadows in high-flow acrylic, mixing the background and three greens, then layering purples and refining.
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