Beggs – Still life, pots and onions

Still life paintings are an opportunity to ponder the everyday items one might find in a home or a garden. An aspiring representational artist soon learns to practice representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional support. A still life painting, taken directly from life (not a photograph) teaches one how to see, how to understand the behaviour of light and shadow, and how to create a composition.

This is my first still life. It’s a hodge-podge of things I could quickly locate and set up. There was little thought of composition, just an opportunity to represent real things, taken directly from life. The difference between this and painting from a photograph was greater than I expected. In some ways it was easier.