Welcome to Tea Table Still Life Painting

Acrylics

This project is inspired by Post Impressionist still life painting. Post Impressionism was an innovative and experimental art movement from the beginning of the 20th century, drawing on many influences and styles.
Working from real objects where possible, Still life is a great way to improve your observational skills and decision making.

A step by step project video, to create an interesting composition, use impressionist and precise brush strokes to depict elements of a table set out for tea, using a variety of objects, from china, glass, reflective, flowers and folds of fabric.

Please use the following password to access your video content, please note they are case sensitive:

Tea Table in Acrylics Part 1 : Objects

Video Length: 25 mins

Tea Table in Acrylics Part 2 : Tableware

Video Length: 71 mins

We hope you enjoy your painting course!  If you have any queries please contact us via email. We’d love to see your creations, feel free to send your paintings in to us to feature on our social media!

Many thanks and happy painting!

Jessie, Discovery Art Class

Tea Table Still Life in Acrylics

Part 1 – Preparation and Drawing

Drawing on Post Impressionist influences, working from real objects where possible, Still life is a great way to improve your observational skills and decision making.

In this section learn to create a composition, draw and prepare the canvas with an underpainting.

Don’t forget to watch the video on full screen! Enter your password then click on the square icon (bottom right) to enter and exit full screen mode.

You may need to turn the sound on – roll over the top right of the screen and the sound button will appear.

Tea Table Still Life in Acrylics

Part 2 – Tone and Detail

Drawing on Post Impressionist influences, working from real objects where possible, Still life is a great way to improve your observational skills and decision making.

In this section build your painting using tone and detail, using a combination of impressionist and precise brush strokes to depict elements of a tea set, glass, and reflective objects, flowers and folds of table cloth fabrics.

Don’t forget to watch the video on full screen! Enter your password then click on the square icon (bottom right) to enter and exit full screen mode.

You may need to turn the sound on – roll over the top right of the screen and the sound button will appear.

MATERIALS

  • Pencil – HB ( for light sketching)
  • Rubber and ruler – any ordinary pencil rubber and ruler
  • Acrylic paper/ or canvas board
  • Acrylic paint
  • Acrylic brushes
  • Board
  • Masking tape

Downloadable Materials list – – a list of good quality materials and suggested suppliers. Please note that the links will take you to another company’s website, which is outside of DAC data control.

Please click below to download:

Acrylic Materials List

REFERENCE IMAGE

A copy of the final painting for reference, feel free to choose your own!

To download image:

Mac users: Hold ‘Control’ Key down, Click on Photo. Select ‘Save Image as’…, then ‘Desktop’ – Save.

PC users : Right click image, select ‘save image as’, choose location.