Background
Newton, Barbara Benedetti was born on October 25, 1943 in Puyallup, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Andrew Joseph and Ethel Vivian (Heimsoth) Benedetti.
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Colored pencils are a fascinating medium, offering a palette rich with nuance, versatility and creative potential. Successful colored pencil artists and teachers, Janie Gildow and Barbara Benedetti Newton answer the most commonly asked questions about colored pencil techniques. Over twenty easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations show you how to: • Select the right tools, as well as set up your workspace to optimize efficiency and comfort • Effectively express yourself through color and value to create light, shadow and mood • Use and master basic essential colored pencil techniques • Create the look of realistic metal, including brass, copper and silver • Create glass that sparkles, mirrors that reflect and water that distorts • Create realistic texture, from slippery satin, fuzzy peaches and velvety roses to coarse linen and the bumpy surface of corn • Fix common mistakes and problems with easy-to-use solutions Whether you already enjoy working with colored pencils or are looking to try this exciting medium for the first time, this book will provide you with all the information you need to create your own colored pencil compositions.
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In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature. Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history.
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Newton, Barbara Benedetti was born on October 25, 1943 in Puyallup, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Andrew Joseph and Ethel Vivian (Heimsoth) Benedetti.
Graduate, Burnley Art School, Seattle, 1966.
Owner Bina Designs, Renton, Washington, since 1988. Instructor, owner Colored Pencil Workshops, Renton, Washington, since 1993.
(In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The Ne...)
( Colored pencils are a fascinating medium, offering a pa...)
Artwork published in Best of Colored Pencil series (5 books), Creative Colored Pencil, 1996, The Best of Flower Painting, I and II, 1997, 99, Exploring Colored Pencil, 1999, Colored Pencil Explorations, 2002. Co-author: Colored Pencil Solution Book, 2000. Contributor articles to Artist's Magazine, American Artist Magazine, International Artist Magazine.
One-woman shows include Renton (Washington) Arts Commission Closing Artist, 1995, Kent Arts Commission Opening Artist, 1995, PACCAR Incorporated, Bellevue, Washington, 1994, Auburn Arts Commission Visual Arts Exhibition, Washington, 1993. Exhibited in group shows at Western Washington State Fair, 1992, Gango Gallery, Portland, 1994-1996, Eastside Association Fine Arts, 1994-1995 (Best of Show award), 97-98, Sidney Gallery, Port Orchard, 1995, Artsplash, Redmond, Washington, 1995-2003, Sidney Gallery, Port Orchard, Washington, 1996, Sitka Art Invitational, Portland, 1996-2000, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York City, 1996, Bellevue Art Museum, 1996, Realism, 1996-1998, Parkersburg (West Virginia) Art Center, 1996, Oregon State University, 1996, Mercer Island (Washington) Gallery, 1997, CPSA award), Ellipse Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia, 1998 (CPSA award of appreciation), Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, 1998 (first place award), Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1998 (Best of Show award), Oregon City (Oregon) Carnegie Center, 2000 (second place Floral award), Old Redmond Schoolhouse, 2001, H.K. Holbein award of excellence, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, 2002 (honorable mention award), Burien (Washington) Gallery, 2002 (Art Supply award), Edmonds Art Festival, 2002 (first place award), Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, Washington, 2002 (Technology Excellence award), Issaquah (Washington) Gallery, 2002, Don Charles award.
Colored Pencil Society of America (signature, newsletter editor 1991-2000, national membership director 1993-1994, president 1994-1995, advisor to board 1995-1996, Appreciation award 1998), Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Allied Artists of America (associate), Eastside Association Fine Arts, Women Painters of Washington (newsletter editor since 1998), Northwest Pastel Society.
Married Charles William Iles, Junior, June 26, 1965 (divorced 1983). Children: Tobin William Iles, Andrea Iles Foster. Married Jay Newton, April 25, 1987.