Dear Subscribers,

 

Greetings!

 

Last weekend I taught a private workshop to an awesome group of artists
in Herndon, Virginia. Intense and fun. Thanks to Tricia Ratliff
  for masterminding and hosting this
event.

 

Artist Suzanne Lago Arthur posted some fantastic workshop notes on her
blog
 .

 

The focus of the workshop was composition, my favorite thing in
painting to talk about. I've heard it said that you can't teach
composition. I used to think there was something to this statement, but
over time I've come around and now I strongly disagree. When it comes
down to it, composition is about focus, and there are many concrete
ways to create focus. You can definitely teach composition. You just
can't teach taste, and rightly so. That's up to the individual artist.

 

Did two demos over the workshop. The setup for the first one:

 

 
 

 

The following process pics are courtesy of Debra Keirce
 . Thanks Deb!

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

And the finished painting, "Demo of Walter's Turkish Kettle"
  (9x12,sold):

 

  

 

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And I did a knife-painting demo. The setup:

 

 
 


 

More photos from Deb:

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

And the finished painting, "Demo of Glowing Mandarin"
  (8x10, sold):

 

  

 

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Until next week,

David A. N. Cheifetz
www.davidcheifetz.com  

 

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