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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