Dear Subscribers,

 

Greetings!

 

I am the December judge for the the Boldbrush Painting Competition
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Awesome! It will be fun.

 

New still life.

The setup:

While setting this up I'm thinking of a geometric treatment of the
background to reinforce my choice of the plum as the center of interest.

 
 

 

First stage:

I decide to ditch the other plum and go for grapes instead.

 
 

 

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Painting imaginary grapes is one of the great pleasures of life.

 
 

 

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And the finished painting, "Red Plum"
  (8x8):

 

  

 

(Click through the image above to Like it, Pin it, Tweet it. This
painting will debut at my Solo Show July 2013 @ STUDIO Gallery)

 

And the animation for the above progression:

 

 
 

 

I've decided to compile all of my painting animations in one place. New
page on the site: ANIMATIONS
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I did another paint-along demo in my still life class
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didn't result in a finished painting, but still time well spent.

The setup:

 
 

 

First stage:

Blocking in shape of shadow.

 
 

 

Next stage:

Our goal was to make the mandarin orange the center of interest, so we
painted that first.

 
 

 

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This is where we finished at the end of class.

 
 

 

Next stage:

I kept working on it.

 
 

 

Next stage:

I decide that the other pieces of orange and the blue cloth aren't
working for me. I don't like them in this composition.

 
 

 

Next stage:

Where I terminated the painting.

 
 

 

This was a situation where I had a clear vision for the painting at the
beginning but it didn't work out. Usually when I fail a painting it's
because I didn't have a clear vision. This time was different. It didn't
work. It felt rote and uninspired, and I lost the connection with it.
To finish it would have been an exercise in busy-work, and I would not
have been proud of it. It felt like being in a rut. Still it was good
painting time and good practice. Moving on.

 

Until next week,

David A. N. Cheifetz
www.davidcheifetz.com  

 

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