Dear Subscribers,

 

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
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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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