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Greetings!
I'm back from paternity leave. We have some catching up to do. This is going to be a long freakin newsletter....

"The Experiment" was an August Finalist in Raymar, woot.
It was also an August Finalist in Boldbrush, woot again.



I'd recorded two podcast episodes in advance so Impasto Logs has been going strong and there are 4 episodes currently up on iTunes. Subscribe through iTunes for automatic downloads.



It was helpful to break from newslettering, but I couldn't stay away from actual painting for very long. The initial preparation for this new still life idea started a month ago (what I was working on when I got the call at T minus one day). It began with some sketching of various critters from reference:





Now that I had some loose introduction to various critter anatomies, I began creating my own bug-thing:





With the help of a handy little table-top easel, I was able to start mocking up the bug in paint while tending to paternal duties:



Nana, a peer from my time at the Schuler School, gave me this little homemade cigar-box painting box, which I used as my palette below. Normally you can put a tiny panel or paper on that tilted surface. Very handy. Thanks Nana :





This one is good-natured and smiley.


This one is extra glowy.


Things become more refined against a light background:


All this led to a first painting in the series, "Flrrbl With Red Apples" (8x10):



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Detail of flrrbl:


I sketched different poses to use in the next painting, this time with wings popped out in a beetle-ish way:



I hung small tubes of paint with fishing line with the desired tilt and location to give me an idea of shadows. Some old crappy rum stood in for the whiskey (I wouldn't waste actual whiskey, obvi):






And the finished painting, "Flrrblz Circling Whiskey" (12x12):



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Details:




JUST SOLD!:

"Brew"

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

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