Artist Palette Challenge

Barbara Benedetti Newton

Born 1943 in Puyallup, Washington, attended public school in Auburn, cosmetology school in Renton, and Burnley School of Professional Art (now renamed Art Institute of Seattle) where she studied with William Cumming among others. In 1965, Newton began her professional art career as a fashion illustrator for a major Seattle department store.

In 1990, after several life-changing events she returned to full time to art. The humble colored pencil became her path back and her introduction to color. Working exclusively in colored pencil for more than a dozen years, Newton became one of the masters of the medium and co-authored Colored Pencil Solution Book, published in 2000.

In 2002 Newton began exploring other mediums and has been working primarily in soft pastel since then. Making the transition from a precise, time-consuming, transparent medium to spontaneous, fast-paced, opaque soft pastel has been a journey of discovery. With a change of medium, Newton also departed from her trademark light-filled still life subjects to impressionistic landscape scenes. She participates in exhibitions nationwide; her work is included in collections across the U.S.

Source: This is an edited version of the biography on barbaranewton.net

Thanks go to timanttimaarit for suggesting this artist

Queen Anne's Lace by Barbara Benedetti Newton, 2011

Chorus Line by Barbara Benedetti Newton, 2002

Pear in Silver by Barbara Benedetti Newton, 2002

Queen Anne's Lace by Barbara Benedetti Newton, 2011

Barbara Benedetti Newton ~ Sunset

Barbara Benedetti Newton ~ Sitka Meadow