Newberry Art Tutorials Then Add Light! One of the most important lessons I teach in my workshops is to find the shadows first. It is almost a guarantee that if you find interesting shadows then the rest of your drawing or painting will work! The hard part is that looking for shadows (cast, core shadows …
Crazy Journey Last Night – The Kiss
Would you, could you, pose with your mate tonight for the "Kiss" painting?” He said: "Yes!"
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 …
The Sky Problem in Landscape Painting
Newberry Art Tutorials The Problem: A Bright Sky In real life the daylight sky is bright, much brighter than the landscape's trees, vegetation, mountains, and water. Think of it as a large lamp. But when you paint a landscape truthfully the effect backfires, the sky will be bright but the earth part will be dull …
Damn Complex Chaos to Visual Language
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.
Mark Making Movement in Pastel
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 …
Transcending Oblivion
Horrified by the subject's meaning backfiring I went through my options, never forgetting that I had already put 3,000 hours towards this work. Every way I looked at it there was no solution that appeared to improve the painting. Michelangelo hacked away a figure not working ...

