One more ancient painting: Tea Smoked Duck. That duck lived in my studio for a number of days as I painted it from life. Had to return the hook to the chinese butcher shop afterwards, and were they ever confused. You want the duck AND the hook ?
posted by chuck pyle at 7:14 AM
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Haha... great painting. It didn't start smelling after a couple days?
I'd have been tempted to eat it while trying to paint it. I struggled once with one of my still life's that had a very delicious looking and smelling sourdough loaf. For this reason I find painting food hard. :D
sacrifining one of the senses in favor of another, ah, the artit's lot! The idea was to not eat one so tht by painting it I would be able to buy many down the road!
the painting looks great
these paintings are epically awesome chuck!
If you look closely at the Examiner, you might even be able to see the date. Monico was right, the duck had started to turn a bit, but, my studio was so cold that it did not quite reek. Did tie it to the bumper of a good friend's car after i was done with it.
Love it.
I loved the shapes and colors. I would just stand in front of the Chinese butcher shops, mesmerized, by the rows of ducks on hooks. The smells were wonderful, too.
When one starts thinking he's getting serious enough about his art, a quick stop at Chuck's blog and a moment of appreciating his painting of a duck over carefully rendered pages of newspaper can be an amazing moment of humility and eye-opening.
Thanks Chuck.
You, Theo, need no humility reminders.
beautiful image. Now I'm in the mood for some bbq duck and rice.
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