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Greetings,

Today the Schuler School of Fine Arts Holiday Exhibition continues! I hear it's a particularly awesome one this year. If you're in the Baltimore area, check it out.

Three more weeks remain for my Holiday Charity Sale.

New still life. With this one I was planning to prove a point to myself--> That value would definitely trump color when 2 conflicting focal points went head to head for dominance. So I went into this thinking of the pear/peel area as subservient to the orange.

The setup:


Camera battery depleted! I missed the earliest stages. We pick up here: knife, lots of thick paint. Pure color on pear. Darkest darks and lightest lights at and around the orange. That cloth is purple in real life. Ah, cameras....


Palette action:


Next stage. Refining orange:


And the finished painting, "Value v. Color (A Dispute)" (8x8):




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So in the end, the battle was much closer than I'd anticipated. Probably because I have some very light lights in the pear/peel as well. My eyes keep bouncing back and forth. Tension. But even so, I think value slightly wins.

I use photoshop for adjusting the colors to match real life as closely as possible. Sometimes I have fun with it to see what could have been.
3 alternate outcomes:

-If I had gone more purple/red in the orange. Kinda cool. Undoes some of the conflict and unifies the painting. Wouldn't have been in line with my goal but interesting:


If I had severely desaturated the orange. Would have been a more pure example of my experiment:


If I had severely desaturated AND pumped the contrast in the orange, and decreased contrast in the rest of the painting. Note to self: I quite like this one:


Anyway, enough with the digital hijinks.

JUST SOLD!:


  
"The Chase"  ;  "White Dawn"  ;  "Wizened Creamer"  ;  "Starkrimson on Ledge"
    

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

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