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Dear Subscribers,
Greetings!
A new large painting.
A big painting requires lots of paint. Lots of paint means a large palette. This is a repurposed upside-down 16x20 cradled gessobord (with an old botched painting face-down). Works great. Except all that dry surface soaked up the oil and made my paint dry at first. I've been wiping it down with extra linseed between sessions and now it is much better. Give it a year of use and it will be glossy and nice:
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At this point I posted it on facebook etc, thinking it was done (you can still see that post because...well, you can't replace an image without losing all those Likes). Then one thing started to drive me crazy. I tried to ignore it, but it was too big of an issue. The barbell was severely misaligned with its sleeve. This is the downside of starting loose. Of course from a technical standpoint the misalignment was bad, but more importantly, a powerful aspect of the painting was missing: the feeling of weight and strain. The bar should be slightly bowed down, and if anything there was an illusion of the opposite happening. So I tweaked it and now it is much better.
And the finished painting, "The Deadlift" (36x36):
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See larger image here.
A new episode of the podcast is now up on iTunes! Impasto Logs Episode 6: Composing a Still Life (with some q&a). Thanks for your subscriptions and ratings.
My painting "Vacancy" won the Best In Show $2500 Award among some excellent competition in the Richeson75 Still Life & Floral 2014 Exhibit. The show was juried by Elizabeth Robbins, whose commentary is below:
Until next week,
David A. N. Cheifetz
www.davidcheifetz.com
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