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. …
Creating Denouement
Painting Denouement was a chance to live inside glowing, colorful light and to express through art what love feels like to me.
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 …
Charcoal Drawing Part 2
Newberry Art Tutorials Charcoal Drawing Part 2 by Michael Newberry In Charcoal Drawing Part 1 you will find what are quality materials you need to get the best results. With this tutorial, I will take you through the drawing stages. The preparation takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Now that you have prepared the paper …
Charcoal Drawing Part 1
Newberry Art Tutorials Charcoal Drawing Part 1 by Michael Newberry Charcoal drawing is 30,000 years old and marks the dawn of humankind. When drawn on great paper is one of the easiest and most rewarding techniques in all visual art. It is perfect for the beginner because it quickly conveys the image; mistakes are easily …
Seek the Big Form: Study Sculpture
Being an Artist: Approach Art Like a Child
Newberry Art Tutorials Expressing artistic vision, aside from all of the technical stuff, is really no more difficult than a child, left to his imagination, creating a little universe out of paper and crayon. On the other side of the spectrum, da Vinci and Michelangelo went beyond the confines of being craftsmen to establishing themselves …
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