Still Life: The Working Process

STEP ONE

Spend time arranging an interesting assortment of fruit and objects in a pleasing composition. Remember to choose things that have colours that are complementary to each other. Check your colour wheel. Reds and greens together, yellows and purples together for example. Think then about where you want your light source to come from - where the highlights and shadows will fall. The shadows and highlights become a major part of the composition.

When you are happy with the setup, draw it lightly onto your paper using a soft pastel pencil. I find Sennelier Pastelcard is a good paper