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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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