Dear Subscribers,

Greetings!

One year ago I sent this newsletter. What a great year it has been.

The reception for "City Streets" at Gallery is today! 1-6 pm. I won't be able to make it but my newest 'scape will:

("Organism" 8x16)
It'll be a great show. If you go, let me know how it was.

New still life.

Some paintings just take more blood and sweat than other paintings. If I had not taken my own advice and not stayed present while painting each individual portion of the still life below, and instead had become preoccupied with the slowness and difficulty of the painting as a whole, this painting would not have been created. Tunnel vision and long, late hours saw this one through.

The setup. The setting is a corner made of cardboard, how fancy. I like the smoothness and the color. There is a usb cable running out of the pitcher--this is reference for shadows of an imaginary flower-thing. The stopwatch is also a shadow reference for imaginary petals. The light is isolated with foil around the lamp. The studio was kinda dark, and I had to switch on and off several lights during the process so I could see my painting better:


First stage. This is a rare painting that is equal parts knife and brush work. I think that because the flower and petals were coming from imagination, they lent themselves more to brushwork so I could sneak up on them a little more. But the background and kettles were good for the knife.








In the stage above I reached a point where I was reasonably sure that the concept of the painting could work out the way I imagined it .... as long as I continued to press on. It was the turning point.



The central pitcher (which I have painted so many times) was giving me a hell of a tough time in this lighting scenario while trying to push the color. It was a back and forth battle, as you can see with the sudden smooth texture shift in the above attempt, followed by a return to rough knife texture below.



Finally the flower came to life.





And the finished painting, "Backed into a Damn Corner" (16x20, SOLD!):



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The process seemed like it would never end, then all of a sudden, voila, the painting was finished. For me the meaning behind this painting is twofold.

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

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