Imagination
Oil Paint Glazing
Erotic Symbolism in Visual Art
Newberry Art Tutorials O'Keeffe, 1923, Grey Line with Black, Blue, and Yellow Representational painting, such as landscapes, people, and furniture, is normally viewed at face value. A flower is just a flower; a chair a chair. But the manner in which an artist uses shapes can convey more than the literal content of the painting. …
Details Don’t Mean A Thing If They Don’t Swing
Creating Denouement
Painting Denouement was a chance to live inside glowing, colorful light and to express through art what love feels like to me.
Detecting Value Judgements in Painting
A few years ago I read the book What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand by Torres and Kamhi. I was disquieted to read their take on Rand's definition of art, specifically about the meaning of metaphysical value-judgements. Perhaps the thing that was the most surprising to me was that their perspective on this issue is so much not the way that I experience art; either as a creator or as in appreciation, or how I understand Rand's meaning. In a sense, their book has been the catalyst for this lecture. I hope to answer them by showing how you can detect metaphysical value-judgments in painting. But, more importantly, I hope to show you how to find and, perhaps, share the artist's incredible passion that lies just beneath the surface of the paint.
Integration, Part 2: Color
Jacob Collins, Sensuous Nature of Light
"I find beauty in observing and in furthering my knowledge about light, the identity of plants and trees, and even such things as the nature of the formation of rocks and land masses."
5-Minute Palette Clean Up
Newberry Art Tutorials 5-Minute Clean Up by Michael Newberry If you are like most artists, you love to start with a clean oil painting palette. But like most of us, a day or a week of painting goes by and your palette becomes crusty with dried paint. Okay, some of you have decades old palettes …
Michael Newberry 