Impressionist Oil Painting: Still Life Cherries

Impressionist Oil Painting: Still Life Cherries free download

Master brushwork | Deliver impact | Still life | Impressionism Oil Painting | Loose style

This is a paint along course where I will cover some basic, beginner friendly techniques to achieve a beautiful realistic still life impressionist oil painting of a few cherries. Still life is a great way to exercise your brushwork and by painting fruit you can expand your skills and learn a lot about lighting and reflections. Since this is an impressionist oil painting, we will focus primarily on how light shapes and colors the subject.

Molding the shape of the cherries with the brush and exploring blending techniques will do wonders for your overall control. This step by step process is all in real-time and there is something to gain for all levels, especially beginners and intermediate painters.

Small paintings like this are perfect for enhancing creativity when trying to achieve that loose painterly look that everyone just loves. That’s why, even though the canvas is pretty small, we’ll be using mainly larger brushes to move the paint around and very rarely the small detail brush. In the end, the painting will appear loose, confident and will deliver great impact.

We will focus on the cherries and getting vivid and realistic colors to blend beautifully with each other but don’t be afraid to experiment and play around with the color variation. Use the palette knife if you feel it helps, use only large brushes if you want and skip the small ones, or paint the cherries a different color. It’s all about having fun.