Creation, Reference and Composition
Hefferlin Section in Evolution Through Art
Newberry, Ocean Avenue View (s), pastel
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 …
Pushing the Composition Envelope, Melissa Hefferlin Still Lifes
It is interesting to contrast Hefferlin with Picasso (he is one of my favorite artists). He created some of the best compositions of all time, but he frequently distorted the subjects – like the woman's face, body, and other objects – to make very clever compositional arrangements. But in distorting reality so much he threw the baby out with the bathwater. He was visually saying that reality is a chaos of distorted perspectives that are not true to real life. What is exceptional about Melissa is her ability to tweak these pattern motifs while keeping a realistic perspective, a feat of integration that Picasso doesn't match up to.
Creating Denouement
Painting Denouement was a chance to live inside glowing, colorful light and to express through art what love feels like to me.
Michael Newberry 