Artist Chasing Eudaemonia, ACE
Newberry Color Theory is extraordinarily advanced. It might be the most important development in understanding the nature of light and color since Monet’s consistent execution of daylight colors of light and shadow. Newberry Color Theory compels the reader to conceptualize space, atmosphere, light, shade, and things as they are. And, the most difficult, to integrate …
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I am creating a book discussing the color theory behind my recent Wave Series. There are the sixteen pastels seascapes each with a different color approach, involving the color of atmosphere, the color of light and shadows, the color of depth and foreground, and the color of the things themselves. When the process is integrated …
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 10×8″ 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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Breaking my rules! These last weeks I have been exploring the color sheen of the light that bounces upwards from the color of the ground. In this pastel that sheen serves as screen between us and the water and sky. So that the blue sky and water take on a yellowy-warm tints turning them into …
Newberry Art Tutorials This online tutorial is a transcription from a 2002 lecture I gave at the Courage of Your Perceptions Conference (Satellite to the EC’s Vision Scientists’ Conference) in Glasgow, Scotland.Given a two-dimensional surface, transparency and contrast are a means to place identities/forms through spatial depth. In Part 1 I discussed how this theory …
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Very proud of my students, these works were done independently of me. They took what they had been learning and applied it on their own, self-motivated, and, in my mind, very successfully. Sonia painted the two girls from masterworks from the Prado, but they are free transcriptions. We’ve been working with color theory and forming the structure of the face. Sonia’s recent lessons with me was to freely copy some classic sculpture heads to learn form. The roundness in her children’s faces is superb. And they look like children, one of the most difficult things to do in art.
“I began art lessons with Michael as a true beginning student. Michael was patient and kind, but honest, which allowed me to progress while not feeling intimidated. I was excited to learn about technique with different media, color theory and light. Michael’s passion and knowledge instills positive energy in his students.”
Michael Newberry 