The idea for Still Life came to London in the middle of the night — he was feeding his newborn daughter and staring at a book with a fine art print on the cover. "It was a 17th century Dutch ...

In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. The hunk of cheese goes uneaten. The candles do not flicker. That's the rule according to the ...

Done well, it affords a close-range, still-life chance to appreciate creatures we might never encounter in the wild. We see them absent the bars of a zoo, arranged as they might be in nature—and ...

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and ...

Bring the torch into action and the results become far more creative. You can either hold the torch still or move it around to avoid patterns from the bulb or hot spots appearing. One thing you'll ...

Still life art is drawing or painting objects that are arranged in a certain way. These objects can be anything from fruit to vases. The aim is to look and think about the shapes and size of the ...

Signed in pencil and numbered 4/100. Colour lithograph and screenprint in colours, 1974. Published by Multiples, Inc., and Castelli Graphics, New York with their blind stamp verso. Printed by Styria ...