Daniela Astone: Creating an Elegant Still Life

This cinematic video production includes: How to find the right color palette... The step by step process of creating a composition... How to arrange a still life... Creating a pleasing composition... Premixing colors... Building the layers of a painting... Making shadows feel realistic... Using transparency to enhance darks... Making highlights stand out... Blending the right background... Making color stand out...   Do You Want to Know the REAL Secret to Creating Elegant Still Life Paintings? Two decades ago, if you wanted to study the techniques of the Old Masters, you'd have found it almost impossible. Very few places existed that had documented and preserved their techniques, which had been passed from generation to generation but then were almost lost as the world became obsessed with modernism and abstract art. "Just express yourself, do your own thing," was the mantra of the times. Those who wanted to study the figure and learn to paint like the Old Masters were told that th