Dear Subscribers,

 

Greetings!

 

Thanks for those collector photos 
. Keep 'em coming.

 

New still life.

This painting was born from a paint-along day
  in my still
life class.

Another dumbbell. I love how the object looks. This one with a shinier
finish and darker color. The composition is similar to Hex
 , but with a different set
of challenges.

 

The setup and shape-of-shadows:

 

 
 

 

Next stage:

 
 

 

Next stage:

 
 

 

We controlled value to keep the focus on the right side of the dumbbell.

This is where class ended and I continued later.

 

Next stage:

 
 

 

Next stage:

Going tighter in the right side of the dumbbell.

 
 

 

Next stage:

Tweaking and correcting the drawing and perspective at every
opportunity.

Reworking the values in the onion's turning-shadow.

 
 

 

And the finished painting, "Fifty Pounds"
  (9x12):

 

  

 

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JUST SOLD!:

  

"Heart of Red"   sold from
RS Hanna Gallery.

And the .gif animation of painting this guy.
 

 

 

This coming weekend: Workshop! 

 

Until next week or the week after that,


David A. N. Cheifetz
www.davidcheifetz.com  

 

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