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David Cheifetz

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Oil painter.

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David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Sep 2, 2018, 11:18 PM UTC

How to ship a painting: Custom box

Hello fellow artists and Steemians, Shipping a painting can be an intimidating, nerve-wracking, and expensive process for artists. Hopefully I can make this task a little less opaque for some of you.…

54 upvotes 4 replies $0.01
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Aug 24, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

"Di In Light Air" (12x9 oil on panel) painting process

Hello Steemians, 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 bes…

167 upvotes 2 replies $1.06
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Jun 26, 2018, 3:08 AM UTC

"The Mage's Flame" (16x12 oil on panel) painting process

Greetings Steemians and Artists, detail New still life painting. Here is the setup. My initial visual concept is to play equal parts warm (candle) and cool (glasses with partially evaporated food-col…

29 upvotes 8 replies $0.88
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Jun 16, 2018, 8:24 PM UTC

"Overgrowth" (16x16 oil on panel) painting process

Greetings, It's been a little while. Today's post is about my newest painting. detail Here is setup: To explain the messy/amorphous first stage below: I had a technical idea here that I wanted to exp…

155 upvotes 10 replies $3.25
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz May 3, 2018, 9:40 PM UTC

"The Spire" (9x12 oil on linen panel) painting process

Greetings Steemians and Artists, This painting remains a personal favorite. There is no greater thrill to me (in painting) than transcending (or attempting to transcend) the limitations of "reality".…

19 upvotes 10 replies $4.53
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz May 2, 2018, 5:11 PM UTC

"Queens" (24x18 oil on panel) painting process

Greetings Steemians, "I think of composition as the final frontier in painting. An infinite area of discovery. For this reason, I don't put stock in any "rules" of composition. Rules are finite. Rule…

71 upvotes 5 replies $3.99
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Apr 29, 2018, 10:26 PM UTC

Still Life Painting Workshop Recap (Jack Richeson & Co)

Greetings, The following is a recap from a trip out to Jack Richeson Gallery & School in Wisconsin to teach one of my Still Life Painting/Composition workshops (this one in 2015). Just recently (…

38 upvotes 0 replies $0.18
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Apr 29, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

A pair of tiny figure paintings (each 6x6 oil on panel)

Greetings, A few years ago I made this pair of 6x6in paintings for a miniatures show. Painting tiny figures is an interesting challenge. In the detail shot below, the hand's width across the knuckles…

25 upvotes 10 replies $0.79
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Apr 17, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

"Goblet Filled With Light" (9x12 oil on panel) painting process

Greetings Steemians and Artists, New painting! Just finished yesterday. It took far longer than anticipated (especially for such a small size), but that's how it goes sometimes. As a result, I got pl…

348 upvotes 24 replies $18.34
David Cheifetz
@davidcheifetz Apr 10, 2018, 9:03 PM UTC

"Abandon Me" (16x16 oil on panel) painting process

Greetings Steemians and Artists, Staring at still life objects as much as I do, it's hard to avoid some contemplation about the incredibly transient nature of the world of objects (not to mention the…

25 upvotes 14 replies $0.52