Newberry, San Onofre Pink
Do more than criticize, make something you love.
Thank god I am an artist and can make this on the most important US election of my lifetime -- I can breath, stay calm, stay balanced and enjoy my contribution to good works.
Continuing the color theory exploration, this time pink atmosphere, light green highlights, and medium-tone rust orange shadows (the color of the paper). [Too bad the Guggenheim is taken over by anti-evolutionary humans or I would propose a show of these works.] I could do this everyday for the next year, we'll see.
Some of you know I am working on a big nude, Model in the Studio, it got interrupted, I got the composition exactly where I want, but I was pausing about its lighting. Now I understand the pause was more to do with color, with minute changes I can zap it to glow. I am looking forward to taking what I learned from these pastels and imbue my future paintings with this theory of the triangulation of atmosphere, light, and shade.
When I see the white yellow-green highlights of the waves and then adjust to the pink-violet sky I feel a satisfaction of a elegant solution to a sensory problem. Couldn't be happier.
Do more than criticize, make something you love.
Michael Newberry, 11/3/2020