Sonia L’éatarde, ‘No, we don’t like being eaten up’ it said. Oil paint, 24 x 30 cm
Student Work, Yellow Rose by Susan Surber
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Newberry Idyllwild Studio — Summer, 2020
My Collection of Students’ Works
Student Works During Quarantine
Very proud of my students, these works were done independently of me. They took what they had been learning and applied it on their own, self-motivated, and, in my mind, very successfully. Sonia painted the two girls from masterworks from the Prado, but they are free transcriptions. We've been working with color theory and forming the structure of the face. Sonia's recent lessons with me was to freely copy some classic sculpture heads to learn form. The roundness in her children's faces is superb. And they look like children, one of the most difficult things to do in art.
Rebirth: Death and Life through Art
Today is Easter, a symbol of death and rebirth. It is a beautiful thought that though the child passed away 14 or 15 years ago, she lives on the memory -- through a drawing that will always be alive.
Michael Newberry 