Sowing Stars and a Little Bit of Space Dust
Newberry Art Tutorials Painting Is a Lie That Helps Us See More An important part of being a true artist is exploring visual knowledge. In this series of small 10x8" paintings I tested my hypothesis that the hue (color) of shadows would have similar hues in spatial depth. The idea was gleaned from two things: …
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Newberry Art Tutorials https://youtu.be/yJgO3x4FrWM In this 14 minute video I mix some of my favorite color combinations showing how you play with warm and cool colors, and how to tweak some highlights by the color you add.
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 …
Newberry Art Tutorials From Simple Placements to Super Complex Things The very first thing I teach in workshops is to compose using triangulation. It is a sight method of finding two main landmarks then triangulate to find the third landmark. The problem: when you are just drawing freely it is easily to over generalize, and …
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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 …
Michael Newberry recent pastel landscapes.
Newberry Art Tutorials Time-lapse triangulation of a magnificent convent in France. 34 sec. One of the lessons from our @ProvenceArtExperience workshop April 2019, was how to draw this church's beautiful interior using triangulation. It is an awesome technique which artists can use to place a few objects like a group of trees and a pond, …
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High noon and not a shadow to be had. My students will tell you I veto painting things with no shadows, broke my rules, and decided to paint with the focus on the soft dusty arid colors.
Quite tricky in the sense of getting all the colors to “rest” on the surface, so there is no sunken or dead colors, and if I can bring it to the surface the color feels alive.
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