Category: Drawing

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A Little Greek Pastel Painting Trip by Michael Newberry

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Years ago I took a pastel painting trip of a lifetime, for three months I traveled from Athens, Greece to many islands, eventually to Istanbul, and slowly back again to Athens. My first island was Tinos, from the harbor I rented a scooter, booked a tiny house outside of town for 15 dollars a night. The porch had a sloping view over gray-green olive groves down to the dark and brilliant ultramarine blue Mediterranean, about 300 ft to the left was a small, room-sized luminous white-plastered Byzantine church.

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Five Pastel Still Lifes

Newberry, Double O, pastel, 18x24"

There is difficult oxymoron in painting and pastel which is that color kills light and light kills color, but I think with these I achieved the perfect balance bringing out the best of both.

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Lessons From France

Our first morning was a bright windy day as we drove to St. Remy guided by Mathieu to visit and draw at the St. Paul Asylum where Van Gogh was a patient around 1888-9. It was also the period when he did many wonderful works. Incidentally, I did my final art history paper on Van Gogh's painting of the asylum. We saw the VG bedroom and then we started with our first pastel drawing lesson directly underneath its window.

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Rend

Newberry, "Little Light of Mine", charcoal on Rives BFK, 26x19 inches.

Newberry, "Not to Be Answered", charcoal on Rives BFK, 19x13 inches. Death touched my life when three people near me, in the same year, died.  The horrible result was that I felt nothing. One of them was a Dutch woman I didn’t know very well, but we were related in a sense.  I knew she …

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Newberry at To Dentro by Thodoris Archontopoulos

Archaeologist Thodoris Archontopoulos takes us on a journey through Newberry's works in progress. Originally published in the Greek newspaper the Rodiaki, 1996. The Pond, wip, oil on linen, 54 x 48". Destroyed. Michael Newberry exhibits his works in Rhodes at the salon-like gallery To Dentro (the Tree), June 15th through July 13th 1996. Newberry has …

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