I drew this the other evening from a live model. It is play on Duchamp's Nude Descending
Nude Reclining
Five Pastel Still Lifes
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.
Today Blasted Through Finishing Touches on These Pastel Landscapes
Michael Newberry recent pastel landscapes.
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.
John’s Sunset by Michael Newberry
My brother committed suicide and this is a memorial drawing. Newberry, John's Sunset, Charcoal on Rives BFK, 26x19" Studio Collection. A few years ago I got the sad news of my brother's passing. The moment I heard I knew I would be doing a memorial drawing. I was a little scared to do it, I …
Michelangelo’s Drawings: The Conceptual Transformation from Touch to Sight
Eye Excitement: Why Ruins?
If you are an artist looking for something interesting to draw look for differences in everything. That will keep your eye busy and excited and the viewers' too.
Rend
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 …
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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