Pregnant Woman, found object, by Michael Duchamp Newberry
Composition in One Easy Lesson
Creation, WIP, Shadows and Picasso
1999 Satisfying the Soul: An Interview with Michael Newberry
Gift From Manet 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 …
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.
The Sky Problem in Landscape Painting
Newberry Art Tutorials The Problem: A Bright Sky In real life the daylight sky is bright, much brighter than the landscape's trees, vegetation, mountains, and water. Think of it as a large lamp. But when you paint a landscape truthfully the effect backfires, the sky will be bright but the earth part will be dull …
True Lies: Warp Negative Space
Newberry Art Tutorials "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." Picasso With this tutorial I will show how to shape negative space by warping it, thereby creating a believable 3-D image on a 2-D surface. Painting is made up of positive forms and negative spaces. Think of planets and the empty space …
Michael Newberry 