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Posted on July, 2026July, 2026

Newberry Books

Posted on December, 2025December, 2025

Unlocking the Passionate Artist Within

Posted on September, 2025

Alexandra York’s Review of The Art Studio Companion

Posted on August, 2025July, 2026

Memoir: Chapter 16, Navigating LA (Part 1)

An Art Memoir: Depth, Light, and Love I was pedaling my bike up a small hill on a narrow, beat-up asphalt road—this was LA, and I didn’t own a car. The sky was clear, cerulean blue, and the bright California sun shimmered through eucalyptus leaves, casting dappled light on me, the green hedges that lined …

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Posted on July, 2025

Reflections on Art by Michael Newberry – The Wraparound Effect

Posted on July, 2025

Mentoring Chan Luu

Posted on May, 2024

Art Companion: Chapter 34, Background Embrace Effect and Transparency

Posted on February, 2024

Chapter 8, Perfecting Ellipses: Giving Your Still Life Wings

From my upcoming new edition of The Art Studio Companion Drawing ellipses is an essential skill that can transport your viewers to a world of harmony and serenity. Perfectly drawn ellipses of the rims and bases of plates, glasses, and bottles will take your artwork to a whole new level. Though it requires technical precision, …

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Posted on April, 2023

Timing: Two Pastel Interiors – Work in Progress

Newberry, Bay Window, wip, pastel
Posted on February, 2023

Chapters 5 and 6, Ellipses and Cast Shadows

Newberry, Energize Your Art
Posted on February, 2023

Three Visual Axioms

Form, Light, and Space Cover Image
Posted on October, 2022October, 2022

Composition in One Easy Lesson

Posted on June, 2022June, 2022

Creation, Proportions.

Newberry, Study for Creation, wip, graphite

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The Space Series—Secular Gods Ennobling and Uplifting Humanity
Rapture: The Space Series
Rapture: The Space Series is a cycle of 24 life-size paintings (each 64×48″, oil on linen) of gods and goddesses set against nebula backgrounds. Spanning birth to old age.
The theme is that their shadowed selves are transparent and the stuff of the universe, lines mark their boundaries, and light defines who they are. 19 of 24 completed.
Michael Newberry painting on location in Australia
Michael Newberry
Michael Newberry (b. 1956, La Jolla, California) is an artist whose lifelong aim is to be the best artist he can be. Since selling his first artwork at 17, he has sold over one million dollars' worth of work worldwide and exhibited internationally from New York and Los Angeles to Greece, Rome, Brussels, and Washington, D.C. He is currently (2022 to present) completing Rapture: The Space Series, a cycle of twenty-four 64×48″ paintings of gods and goddesses against nebula backgrounds.
Newberry Books
Newberry Books
Sharing a lifetime of practice and reflection through eight books.
Newberry Art Inventory
Newberry Art Inventory
Newberry Art Inventory is my site dedicated to offering available artworks from my studio.
The Newberry Art Files
The Newberry Art Files
The Newberry Art Files contain over 1,500 works created across more than five decades.
The Dreamgate Vision
The Dreamgate Vision
Dreamgate is a vision for a permanent sanctuary dedicated to Rapture: The Space Series.
Newberry Art Inventory
Available art from my studio
Figurative Drawings
Figurative Oil Sketches
Figurative Pastels
Figurative Sketches
Landscape Pastels
Landscape Plein Air Oil
Still Life Drawings
Still Life Paintings
Still Life Pastels
The Wave Series
Available Major Works
Available Major Works
Rapture is not for everyone. But if it is for you, then so are my major works.
Figurative Major Works
Archive of My Major Figurative Paintings
The Wave Series
The Wave Series, Available As One Work
The Wave Series is a collection of sixteen pastel wavescapes working out my color theory, and how it enhances form, light, and space.

Social links:
Facebook Where I communicate with friends and collectors.
Substack Sharing my writing and art with other creatives.
Reddit Over 2.5 million views on my art posts.
YouTube Tutorials, talks, time-lapse, and reveals.

Michael Newberry at work
Photo of Michael Newberry by Stephen Hicks
Amazon Author Page
Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea: The Transformative Power of Art
In this short reflection, I explore Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea—a stunning depiction of transformation and artistic creation. The painting captures the moment an artwork comes to life, embodying the timeless idea that art has the power to awaken the spirit and make the inanimate radiant.
Contact
I welcome inquiries about my work for private, public, and museum art collections.
Michael
Email: mtnewberry@gmail.com
Stephen Hicks on Michael Newberry
“My favorite living painter is an artist named Michael Newberry.” — Philosopher Stephen Hicks
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