Dear Subscribers,

Greetings.

I finished this little painting early in the week. No progress pics this time, woops.
Mixing it up with an imaginary fruit-thing. Still life = no limitations. You're the boss. I rolled a blue cloth into a ball and nestled it against the pumpkin for help locating the reflected light.

"Alien Fruit Dominating A Pumpkin" (6x6):



Knife-painted. Nice and thick.
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The extra bits, skip unless you're bored:


Then the week got sticky. Had an interesting idea, tried it out, scraped it out after a day. Tried next evolution of same idea, much larger this time, painted it for 3 days, scraped it out. I thought it was a great idea and was genuinely excited, but it took trying to realize it wasn't going to work. Yes indeed, this is a little frustrating on a creative level, but much more frustrating on a practical level.

Self-employed artist advantage --> many things.
Self-employed artist disadvantage --> no $salary$, no $hourly$

So when days and hours of hard work results in no actual saleable product, it's like a knife in the gut.

That's okay. All is temporary.

Might as well show you a little.
Here was the setup. Imaginary elements were to be added:



The block in of compostition, omitting imaginary elements:



This was then brought to probably 75% finished, with funky stuff not shown here. I'm not going to explain the rest of it because I'm a bit sick of it and I've mentally moved on. ;) Have a good week.

Until next week,
David A. N. Cheifetz
www.davidcheifetz.com

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