Cezanne Still Life With Apples

[Music] my name is nina kamplin and i am the online arts facilitator for the vc gallery welcome to another one of our live watch parties and today we're looking at doing a still life with apples based on the painting by paul cezanne and this is a tribute to cezanne as yesterday the 19th of january was his birthday so i've started with um i've got old canvas i'm recycling i've just put a yellow ground on that just to block out what was underneath it really so to start with i'm just going to set the camera up so it's closer to the easel so looking at um paul cezanne he did um a lot of different things but um i chose this one just because i haven't done a still life on one of these watch parties before um so i thought it would be quite a a different subject matter to use and uh paul zazan i can only guess the way he painted this but um different to the way i would have done it i would have put the whole background in so i would have started with the background ball and then the table and then i would have added the the fruit into the front of it but i looked at um the way paul cezanne has worked on this this is the painting that has been taken from it looks to me that he drew it out first that he had his composition already sorted because you can see how the background is kind of painted around the objects it's not continuing through and i also notice that the level of the desk is not consistent it looked like he was concentrating on each piece of that individually rather than painting the whole thing first so i'm going to look at each part of this composition separately so it's very different to the way i would normally work and i am going to start with the background but i'm going to paint it around the fruit okay so looking at this original it's composed of small vertical strokes so i'm going to start doing that and i'm using a cerulean blue lots of white and i'm just going to start adding different colors into it as i'm doing it so i'm going to start off with the this is cerulean and some white and i'm going to start by just putting in vertical strokes and then i'm going to just add a few different colors into these there's a little bit of the crimson there and i'm gonna just do the whole background in the same way if i get too dark i'm gonna add a bit more white to it just small vertical strokes cezanne was um he was described as very architectural in the way that he painted he looked for these kind of circular shapes in everything that he painted and he tried to break up the shape of everything he did into geometric basic shapes to make it easier to draw them so this could obviously be done with a lot more detail than this but i don't want you to be spending ages watching me just filling a background in apparently when cezanne used to paint he used to take her about 100 different sittings for each piece of work that he did and he'd really contemplate each brush stroke before we put it down and he wanted to make sure everything was exactly as he wanted it to look so he he planned it so each stroke needed to contain the air the light the object the composition the character the outline and the style so that's quite a lot to put into each stroke which i'm really obviously not doing here i'm looking for an overall likeness to what he's done now i'm going to paint this top apple here and i'm going to start by putting down just a yellow base i've drawn this out in charcoal so it picks up in the paint a little bit but i'm not going to worry too much about that so i'm going to put just a small tint of i'm just taking the red here i'm just going to mix that into the eggs i don't want it to be too strong very pale orangey color around the bottom of this apple so yeah just pale orangey red to give it some shading around here and then i'm going to blend that out and i'm just going to put a little bit more of it on this i think it's where the stalks come out again blend out into the yellow and then i've got um i want to put a dark area in on this side as he had in the original i'm using a little bit of the burnt umber here i'm going to mix that into the orangey color and i'm coming in from this side in fact i'm going gonna add a little bit of the blue just to take the redness out of it so we're going in there and he also kind of puts a a very fine outline around his fruits so i'm going to come around with the same color and take it around the bottom as well and in between the fruit there's quite a dark shadow in there and then we've got the indentation where the core was there's a little dent in the apple there too some marks on the side so i'm going to try and blend that in a bit more using the yellow taking this out a little bit darker i think i might work from left to right if i go to this apple first so this one in his his painting is down very green so i'm gonna use the cerulean and cadmium yellow together i'm trying to leave it quite pale in the middle here so i'm going around i'm going to build it up darker around the sides take the cadmium yellow into the middle to blend it into and then i need to make this darker around the edges so i'm going to add in some burnt umber mixing the umber and the cerulean together you go too dark with this and you want to take the yellow back into a bit more but it's too translucent to go over this just add a little bit of white to it and then you can bring some more yellow into the green areas okay well i'm going to go onto this one here now i'm going to start off by putting just a yellow base down and then i've got red coming in from the right so just here i'll blend that into the yellow bit more and then on this side i'm just going to add a little bit of green to show it reflecting the green from the other apple just quite pale and then i'm going to do this final apple here again going in with the yellow first cover it with yellow and then i'm going to take the red and add it to this side here and somewhere on this edge too and then it just needs to blend in with the yellow and then i've got to do a bit of detail with the burnt umber i've got a tiny mark on this apple here and then we've got another indentation where the stalk would have been in here this is very wet now and i'm gonna just take this shadow down a bit further as well it also comes an outline that comes all the way down between the apples there's an outline around here in fact we have another distant apple behind this one and i've got a shadow on this one here and here so let's put this uh the green apple in behind and i'm gonna put in the desk and so that it looks like it's on a different plane to the um the background the background strokes we did vertically i'm going to do them horizontally on the table let me use black umber and again i'm going to do as soon as i did with the background i'm going to mix it with the other colors so i'm using it with a white to start with and i'm just going to start putting in some horizontal strokes and i'm going to add a little bit of blue to it blue especially in this area here really needs to be much smaller strokes than this lots of really small strokes but i don't want to be here doing this for hours now let's give the back of this table a darker area where it comes out from this apple goes along the back and then just blend it in a bit and then we've got a dark top to the table on this side as well and some shading underneath this apple so we've got a dark shadow in here comes out to almost the same width as the apple and we've got an outline around this plate now i'm going to put the plate in i'm using i've got some white here that's got some of the other colors mixed into it because i don't want to really go pure white so let's use this mix a bit more white into it and i'll put a base down first of all for the white and then it's got a little bit of blue coming from the back and blue just in front of this apple here so i'm going back to the the burnt umber with the cerulean a little bit of red in there as well and the shading from this sample kind of comes down and around this yellow one at the front so we've got almost an outline around this one and then we lose a bit of the plate in the background and i think it's always better to rather than try and get really strong defined lines and you'll spend ages trying to get these apples look the right looking the right shape i always think it's better to blur it rather than try and define it too much so you can even rub it with your finger to lose the line and this comes out into the plate here so again you could just rub it into the color and then we've got some dark around this side as well and around this apple let's just lose that bit of the plate now on the edge of his plate he's got some just splashes of yellow and red use a kind of orangey color one about here a bit more yellow i think it's just about about there i hope you enjoyed watching um that little demonstration of paul cezanne's apples and um if you do do a version of your own at home please do post it on our vc gallery um facebook page or on the bright side because we'd love to see what you've done and i will see you again next week bye [Music] you

Channel: Nina Camplin

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Length: 13min 59sec (839 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 21 2021