Dear Subscribers,

 

Greetings!

 

Good news. My painting "Smolder" was a June Finalist
  in the Raymar Art Painting
Competition! Check it out: link
 

 

Continuing from last week's painting-from-imagination
  exercise:

I like painting old metal stuff. I thought a cannonball would be fun to
paint. Problem: I don't have one. Solution: try to paint one anyways.

 

Early stage:

 
 

 

Next stage:

 
 

 

And the finished painting (to be included in my One-Man show
  in September), "Cannonball"
  (8x8):

 

  

 

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In my still-life painting class
  we
did a drapery study demo/paint-along which resulted in another finished
painting.

 

The setup:

 
 

 

First stage:

 
 

 

Next stage:

 
 

 

Next stage:

This is how far we got in class:

 
 

 

Students set up behind me:

 
 

 

I was liking the composition, so after class I kept going.

Next stage:

 
 

 

And the finished painting (to be included in my One-Man show
  in September),

"Half Dome"   (12x12):

 

  


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On a recommendation from Susan
 , I recently read Ernest
Hemingway On Writing
 . This book delves into work habits of an artist (similar to
themes in my favorite book on being an artist: The War of Art
 ).
Here is an excerpt that I love:

 

I happen to be in a very tough business where there are no alibis. It
is good or it is bad and the thousand reasons that interfere with a
book being as good as possible are no excuses if it is not. You have to
make it good and a man is a fool if he adds or takes hindrance after
hindrance after hindrance to being a writer when that is what he cares
about. Taking refuge in domestic successes, being good to your broke
friends etc. is merely a form of quitting.

Ernest Hemingway
to Mrs. Paul Pfeiffer, 1932

 

So good.

 

Until next week,

David A. N. Cheifetz
www.davidcheifetz.com

 

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