MY STILL LIFE ART
By Richard Schmid
280 pages, 385 color images, 5 drawings
In Richard Schmid’s MY STILL LIFE ART, he invites you to enjoy his lifelong affair with still life painting. Although Richard painted a wide range of subjects, such as landscapes, marine paintings, portraits, figurative works, etc., it was still life painting that allowed him the privacy and unlimited time to develop and fine-tune his techniques and color perception. With MY STILL LIFE ART, Schmid shows us how an artist can transform even the most ordinary things into objects of astonishing beauty and sometimes surprising complexity. He explains that the objects in a Still Life need not be thrilling in and of themselves, but rather it is the way they are painted that makes them so compelling.
With over 300 color plates, this book features many close-up images revealing the different ways he uses his palette knives and brushes. As you turn the pages of this book, you will discover Schmid’s efforts and achievements in capturing not only the world he sees, but also the world of his imagination.
