Lesson 3: Composition on canvas

We are going to start by making our flower still life, a classic theme but one with a lot of colour. With paint, we are going to apply the contours directly onto the canvas with a number of simple guiding lines. A kind of sketching with paint. But where do you place the flowers on the canvas?

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Material

• Acrylic paper

• Canvas paper

• Acrylic paint

• Palette

• Brushes

In this episode we look at Ginger pot with anemones van George Hendrik Breitner.