Monthly Studio Update - June, 2007
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Studio Update:
Open Studio
I live in a cool pocket of artists' lofts on the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn, only 15 minutes from Manhattan. I will open my studio up for viewing on the 2nd and 3rd. There will be lots of new work available. It's a great weekend to see all the energy going on around here. --- Everyday, for the last month, I have been working on Venus. I have approached her all wrong; I am working here and there and everywhere on the surface of the painting. I will touch up a little of the sky which will effect some element of the rocks; they, then, effect her body. My ideal way to work is to finish the background first then complete the body, usually leaving the face for last. I will do that unless I find that something doesn't work--then the juggling routine begins. I have never been one for rationalistic or pure deductive methods--painting is more of dialog: you try something out, and the painting either looks better and becomes more alive, or it looks worse than before. Originally, the sky, rocks, and water were much lighter--but over the course of working on it I came to see that those lighter areas were all competing against her, and she had always been my main focus. The setting has shifted to summer dusk, before the electric roar of the cicadas will engulf the sounds of birds and breeze.
--- In mid-May, I was interviewed for Kaizen, a publication of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Rockford College, conducted by Virginia Murr and philosopher, Stephen Hicks. I will keep you posted when it is available online.
3-Day Intensive Pastel Workshop in Central Park September 14-16, 2007
If you are interested in taking the workshop, contact me. --- That's it for June.
Michael Newberry
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