Instructions:

• Step One:

  Select your paper. You have several to choose from:

  • Large white sheets,
  • Manilla or
  • Construction paper
• Step Two:

  Select your drawing material. Like the paper, you have several to choose from:

  • Oil pastels
  • Pencil crayons
  • Regular pencils
  • Markers
• Step Three

  Organize the still life to suit you. When you have it set up, do a small sketch on newsprint paper, just so you have a sense of the shapes and the organization of the still life.

• Step Four

  Start drawing. You can sketch it first and then add colour, or you can jump right in and use colour right from the beginning. You can try “realism” making everything look as real as possible. You can be “impressionistic”, and go with shapes, colours, and images that inspire your feelings and sense of the still life.