Dear Subscribers,

 

Greetings!

New still life. Actually, does this type of thing even qualify as a
still life anymore? I'm not sure. I'll just say new painting:

The setup:

 
 

Big fat expensive grapes. I put the dark ones up there too because I
was thinking I might be incorporating some of those dark values into
the mutant cluster of grapes. Didn't end up looking at them but you
might as well be prepared.

Hung on nails:

 
 

 

First stage. I used a previously scraped panel with the intention of
leaving some of those interesting marks showing through. A grape
cluster is usually just a dark mass, so I massed it in. Much easier
that way:

 
 

 

Next. With the exception of that ocher-y swatch of background to the
left of the cluster, it's basically just knife from here on out. Now
defining grapes, one by one. A good mentality for grapes is 'slow and
steady wins the race.' I somewhat needed to restrain the instinct to
jump around the painting.

 
 

 

Good thing I like painting grapes.

 
 

 

Normally I would have painted the focal blue grapes first, but in this
case I felt it more useful to work top-to-bottom because grape shapes
were casting shadows on lower grapes, and I didn't predraw them.

 
 

 

Not quite grapey enough yet, needed more bloom to give form.

 
 

 

And the finished painting, "Outlier"
  (14x11):

 

  

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I recommend viewing the larger image HERE
 . Much more tasty.

 

On Friday I'll be in Denver for the opening reception of Contemporary
Realism at Gallery 1261  .

  

  

  

  

As a bonus I'll be able to catch Daniel Sprick's "Fictions" at the
Denver Art Museum before it ends! Yes!

 

Until next week,

David A. N. Cheifetz
www.davidcheifetz.com  

 

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