Artist and Aesthetic Activist
November 15-20, 2020 Color Workshop with Michael Newberry I am always in hope of making a discovery there, to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.Vincent Van Gogh Join us this Fall in Palm Desert, California for a …
Using color theory of cool shadows and warm highlights, I corrected this student’s painting. The student got stills with instructions of the steps, here it is simply a time-lapse. Shadows and distance are often either cool or warm, cool shadows imply a cool background. It works. I did about 12 steps, cooling up the background and shadows. For example, on the lips, I changed the blood-red shadows to violet,
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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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.”
How do you say “bless their hearts” in Martian? With the American election coming up soon, with its intense divide bordering on civil war, making sunsets has a kind of symbolic duplicity: either the sun is setting on American or this chapter ends happily every after with the hero cowboy riding off into the sunset! …
Just signed this and my eyes are still buzzing. The red paper is bright and intense. Color theory is difficult enough by itself but when red paper is thrown into the mixed it electrocutes my brain. Van Gogh writes about what this feels like: “…sheer work and calculation, with one’s mind utterly on the stretch, …
I relied on color theory for the edits of this piece — a little complicated to write. I chose the light to be cool, and the shadows warm. And the depth would have turquoise tint, so as the clouds receded their yellow tint highlights would be an aqua-green (cool light and turquoise depth), and their …
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Today’s edit. Compared to indoors, the sun’s light outdoors is crazy bright. Even with the sun behind you, the landscape is some like 100 times brighter than what can be done with paint or pastel. One way to give a sense of natural brightness is for the painter, me, to brighten the shadows. Here I …
