Landscape Pastel and Charcoal Show
July
29, 2012
All these
pastel and charcoal drawings are background
studies for my ongoing Kickstarter project Man
and Woman.
I am offering
them as Kickstarter awards. You can go
here
for more information and to add them to your
collection.
Below are examples of
the framing and other awards.
One of the
greatest challenges in figurative work, or
any art work is to have something new to
say. I am doing that in two ways: the first
is by finding unique and fresh color
harmonies. These pastels are the major
component of that.
The second way is
by literally and figuratively turning the
theme of Adam and Eve. Instead of facing us
with their fig leaves and modesty, they are
turned towards their open future.
One of the best ways to find unique color
harmonies is go out in nature and look - and
leave the preconceptions at home. I have a
great way to use pastel through applying
many layers of warm and cool colors, which
ultimately arrives at very nuanced color
combinations.
In an ideal world I
would just go out and draw the perfect
background and use that. But I find that it
doesn't enable me to explore many of the
possibilities. Here, with the pastel
landscapes I have exhausted every
possibility of color combinations that I
could find in real life.
Michael
Newberry
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Four 2 |
Beach 4 |
Beach 12 |
Rust Blue 11 |
Rust Blue 12 |
Rust Blue 13 |
Rust Blue 14 |
Four 1 |
Four 3 |
Four 4 |
Beach 1 |
Beach 2 |
Beach 3 |
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Beach 6 |
Beach 7 |
Beach 8 |
Beach 9 |
Beach 10 |
Beach 11 |
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Beach 13 |
Beach 14 |
Beach 15 |
Rust Blue 1 |
Rust Blue 2 |
Rust Blue 3 |
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Rust Blue 4 |
Rust Blue 5 |
Rust Blue 8 |
Rust Blue 9 |
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Waves 1 |
Waves 2 |
Waves 3 |
Waves 4 |
Waves 5 |
Waves 6 |
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