Still Life Image

For this quarter I decided to do a Still life Image . My art had a story behind it just a light one though not to crazy.My Still life image included a Mason Jar, Mortar and Pestle, and Grapes. For this creation I used shading pencils, regular pencil, eraser, and a color pencil. I wanted my Still Life Image  to be somewhat dry and not too shiny this is why I chose these tools . My portrait consist of no colors what’s so over making it bland but detailed I really like this because the art really speaks to you. The colors don’t throw you off you just sit there and look at it.

This Still Life Image has a short story behind it. The creation of grape juice and what not.. In my creation the mortar and pestle are shaded more because they’re behind the Mason jar and for the grapes they’re resting on the mortar and pestle causing the top part to be shaded as well. The story is the creation of grape juice of course. Mortar and pestle are used to smash herbs and make medicines and what not. So basically you smoosh the grapes until they’re all mushy and nasty with mortar and pestle liquidate it and then pour it in the Mason Jar.

I Am more of a visual learner so while drawing I pulled up images of the things you see in front of me as well as had the physical objects in my general direction. While doing the outlines of the object I made sure to make it poke out which is why I used the shading pencil. I then had to rearrange the initial positioning of the objects to create as little space there was. When done with that I used different shading utensils giving the objects distinct colors making sure no object mimicked the other.. An artist that inspired me is Willem Kalf.. His art is very abstract and he’s known for doing Still Life Art.

If I could change one thing it’d be to add more color, add a surface, and redo the grapes. I hope to get better with the shading.

All in all I feel as though this project went really well. I learned a lot while doing this such as the different type of utensils as well as multiple ways you can use them. I also learned that I have a little bit of artist in me. I was actually proud of my art it looked great! I also learned that something so basic could come out so complicated or be considered abstract art when lots of time is put in.  I hope to use my experience now for projects later on in the future. I can’t wait to do more projects close or similar to this one and see the improvements.