Newberry, Gold Santa Monica Apartment Building, pastel
Monet’s Cast Shadows
Facing Oblivion by Michael Newberry
Workshop Series: Composition!
Newberry Art Tutorials Some Guidelines For Great Compositons In my workshops students have plenty of time to compose the work, the line drawing set up before painting begins. The following tutorials show techniques you can focus on as you map out the painting's composition. Composition in One Easy Lesson For demonstration a markup of Van …
Workshop Series: Find the Shadows First
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 …
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.
Crazy Journey Last Night – The Kiss
Would you, could you, pose with your mate tonight for the "Kiss" painting?” He said: "Yes!"
Damn Complex Chaos to Visual Language
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 ...
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