Refine your Colour skills
Learn how to create accurate colours and realistic textures as we paint the sunset at Dee Why beach.
Learn how to create accurate colours and realistic textures as we paint the sunset at Dee Why beach.
Master composition and chroma with this still life by Cezanne. All the beautiful cool pastels in the background are low chroma versions of the warm colours in the foreground.
In this painting we focus on an excerpt from Cezanne's "Still life with fruit dish, apples and bread" of 1880
Read more: Cezanne: Still life with Fruit Dish, 1880 (excerpt)
Cezanne's delicate watercolour still life gives us an opportunity to get watercolour effects from acrylic paint.
A close up of my version, with real apples in the foreground.
Picasso said: " Without Cezanne there would have been no 20th century!"
Let's try and get an idea of Picasso's meaning as we interpret one of Cezanne's 600+ still life paintings.