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Dear Subscribers,
Greetings!
This is what happens when I don't write a newsletter for over a month.
A long ass newsletter. Brace yourself.
New painting: An extremely rare portrait commission. Rare because the
constraints of a commission can potentially be in conflict with the
creative freedom I require to produce my best work, and thus, not
something I want to put out into the world. However, when I have
completely free reign over a commission (as in this case), it is no
different from my normal process. Well, no different but with one major
exception: the commitment to pursuing a more precise likeness.
Here is the beginning stage. You'll notice the loose grid which helps
me get things started more efficiently, while still relying on the
proportional judgments of my eye.
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Next stage. Still pushing the features back and forth, searching for
correct proportion. You'll notice that at the time of this photo, the
eyes appear slightly "wall-eyed". For those without experience with
drawing/painting, you'd probably be shocked at how slight a deviation
in proportion it can take to make the most absurd and distracting
errors, lols.
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Closer. I'm laying down juicy strokes with as large a brush as I can
stand. I do this in order to make sure that I'm making intentional
progress.
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When the proportions of the face are close enough, I expand to the rest
of the composition. I start experimenting with broken color in the face
before committing to any refined details.
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I start reducing brush size as necessary.
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I'm refining the features while trying to retain saturated color.
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The face is slowly improving, and I like where it's heading.
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Between the progress shots above and below, I reach a turning point. I
posted this statement on Instagram:
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I recently posted about the unexpected benefits of an
unintentionally protracted painting process that has become common for
me these days. And so, the theme continues. This portrait has turned a
corner. I thought I was approaching a finish, but then yesterday I
realized that in order to satisfy my own evolving expectations, I had
to take it to another level of refinement, and so a new can of worms
has been opened. I'm coming across technical urges that likely would
not have occurred to me had I been able to paint at a quicker and more
desirable pace. This is pretty cool. #painterthoughts #tinyassbrush
- @davidcheifetz
And so I was committed to more refinement, and the likeness continued
to improve:
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In these progress pictures, the work represented between each step
increases exponentially. At this final stage I made many tiny
adjustments to get the likeness to where I wanted it. But of course, a
portrait painting is more than likeness. I struggled for this to be
bold yet soft and colorful yet accurate. There was always something to
be tweaked. Finally, I was happy with the result.
And the finished painting "Di in Light Air" (9x12 oil on panel, sold):
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This is a special painting because Di is my awesome sister-in-law. She
runs Breath of Fresh Wear , a blog
dedicated to her exploration of all things sartorial.
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Contemporary Realism
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September 1, 2018
Gallery 1261
Denver, CO
The biennial Contemporary Realism at Gallery 1261 is happening next
month! I will have these two paintings in the show:
Overgrowth
Overgrowth
The Mages Flame
The Mage's Flame
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RUBICON
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IX Gallery is the first online-only gallery
dedicated exclusively to contemporary imaginative realism. IX has been
running physical events for years, but this particular online venue is
a new thing. The new exhibition RUBICON is
now live! I've got 4 works in it, including the recent "Prey, Grace".
From the website:
Abend Gallery showcases some of the finest realist painters in the
world. For RUBICON, David Ethridge (curator/owner of Abend Gallery and
director of Gallery 1261) has culled a selection of those galleries'
finest artists and turned them loose in the world of the imagination.
Mia Bergeron * Greg Block * David Michael Bowers * Gordon Brown * David
Cheifetz * David Gray * Dana Hawk * Ron Hicks * Quang Ho * Kieran
Ingram * Marshall Jones * Shana Levenson * Alexandra Manukyan * Kevin
Moore * Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund * Dave Santilanes * Daniel Segrove *
Adrienne Stein * Mark Tennant * Nicolas Uribe * David Uhl * Michael Van
Zeyl * John Wentz * Anna Wypych * Elizabeth Zanzinger * Zack Zdrale
Prey, Grace
Prey, Grace
Genesis Ex Tempore
Genesis Ex Tempore
Fire And Ice
Fire And Ice
Protector
Protector
I especially like Nicolas Uribe's painting
in this show.
Check it out!
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You might remember some progress shots of this. I was working on a
large abstract painting last year before moving from Seattle to
Olympia. Well, I finally unpacked it and took a good photo.
THAÛMA POUR
"THAÛMA POUR" (oil on panel, 30x30)
My gallery assistants helped me hang this up.
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For the love...How long is this newsletter going to take to write? How
"meta" of me.
PODCAST APPEARANCE
I appeared on the awesome John Dalton - gently does it... podcast
again. It is episode no. 111
. I'm featured in his "ask an expert" segment
and I talk about how to light a still life. The start of my segment is
at 1:10:40 but the whole episode is a great listen.
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Also there's a new art/painting podcast called Waiting To Dry (hosted
by fellow oil painters) that I'd like to mention because I've been
enjoying it and I keep getting very nice shoutouts on there. Probably
because I pay off the hosts. Check out episode #18 Carole Gray-Weihman
"Rosemary of Palette Knives"
and episode #30
Bryce Cameron Liston "Beer With A Side Of Cantaloupe"
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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT PENDING
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I've been on hiatus from teaching/travel for over a year due to
childcare logistics, but I've got a workshop coming up in LA. Details
very, very soon. I'll send another newsletter blast for that.
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JUST SOLD:
Nomad
Nomad
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Thank you for reading! See you in a month-ish. -David
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