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Still life in dutch style (acrylic painting) Hi friends! Today I want to tell & show you haw I painted this picture which I named "Russian still life in Dutch style". The article of drawing says about my intention to make a picture stylized as old Dutch painters. The original of tutorial written for Golos https://golos.id/goldvoice/@gerdananeis/khud-konkurs-vkusnyie-fantazii-russkiij-natyurmort-v-gollandskom-stile-vne-konkursa?invite=gerdananeis

For reference I chose my own photo of country summer lunch. It's set of materials I painted: acrylic paints, synthetic brushes & medium for acrylic paints (to make their more wet on the paper). https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/daring_celt/21759813/528799/528799_original.jpg

Sketch

As can be seen from the reference, the photo shows a white tablecloth and a light background. I made them dark, mixing black and brown paint. Then I added some colors of brown are scarlet and canary yellow colors what a background was be not so smooth. Yes, in process of drawing I slightly "lowered"a horizon line.

I start my painting with the most difficult subjects - from a bouquet of flowers in a transparent vase and from the main dining dish - fish cutlets with fresh vegetables. I used two green shades & bright yellow for painting a foliage; gray, ivory & heavily diluted grassy green - for glass. Cutlets I painted with brown, scarlet and two shades of yellow. For a cucumbers I chose grassy and light yellow paints, for lemon circles are light yellow and gray.

Then I painted a dinner's dishes with mix of cobalt blue & gray.

The samovar (*a vessel for making Russian tea*), unfortunately, is not an old copper one, but a modern one from nickel-plated alloys. Gray, black and ivory colors were great for it.

Then I painted a shadows on dishes with mix of cobalt blue & brown - those parts that are closer to a table. I apply glare in ivory color to have a matte gloss effect on porcelain. Tomato juice is drawn with a mix of scarlet with two shades of yellow, a glass - with colors of gray, ivory and brown diluted with medium. With the same colors as the juice and dishes, I draw a reflection in a side of the samovar's surface. Above it is slightly I glazed with a very diluted gray to dim the brightness. At the same stage, I put shadows under each object - with mix of brown and cobalt blue.

Finally strokes: in the right plate are slices of fried potatoes with a green onion (scarlet, green, two shades of yellow and brown), wooden handles at tableware (yellow and brown), salad in the central cup (scarlet, two yellow and green), yellow and pink - little flowers. And burgundy-red cranberry droplets in lemon slices. I correct the contours of objects, and here is the result!

I hope you like my painting tutorials. Maybe it will inspire someone to take brushes and paints too Have a nice day! Regards