BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter August 16th Local or Made up Color
Published: Tue, 08/16/22
Hello
Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #377
Last week I painted more paintings in one week then I think I have ever done since I
was a student at the Academy getting my finals done. I am on a mission to learn as much as I can about plein-air painting and urban sketching before I start entering a bunch of plein-air events. I have the Grand Marais Plein-air fest coming up in September but next year I plan on getting involved with a couple more since they are so much fun to attend. If you get a chance to enter a plein-air event, I highly recommend them!
Yes to Class, at the Civic Center in Libertyville August 18th 1pm to 3:30pm
Yes to Class, at The Studio in McHenry, August 20th 9am- 11:30am
Email me at Beckerart@gmail.com for any info you may need about my classes or workshops.
Local or Made up Color
In the last three weeks I have been doing a bunch of plein-air painting and also watching a friend work plein-air and urban sketching around
France and in Prague. I was painting each day either a plein-air piece or sometimes in the studio from images of France and then Prague. As I was seeing what the workshops in France and in Prague were painting in plein-air and then as urban sketching, I came up with a few questions that I didn't have the answers to because I had never done urban sketching and I am still learning a lot about plein-air painting.
My biggest question was about colors. When
I paint in the studio I usually come up with whatever color scheme I feel best fits the scene I am working on. When I have been plein-air painting with other artists I usually see that they are trying to emulate a lot of what they are seeing in the local colors of the scene. Then I saw that in the urban sketching workshop they were using whatever color they felt best fits their scene. I started wondering if there was a general rule or if it's basically the artist's choice.
So I ask you if you are an urban sketcher or a plein-air painter, what colors do you use to create your plein-air piece or your urban sketch?Beckerart@gmail.com
Here is a YouTube video demo of one of the paintings I painted in my studio that I pieced together from my friend's video reel she had posted on Instagram and this is
where I then questioned what colors I should be using. I did the painting as a watercolor but the workshop was urban sketching so it was way different from what they had done with scenes from this square in Prague.
The demo painting in the video
A painting I did from a photo my friend took at the urban sketchers workshop. Here is also a fast sped up video of how I painted the scene above.
NORTHEAST WATERCOLOR SOCIETY, Green Bay Oct 4-5th 2022 Info to come
Morris Watercolor Guild, Morris IL. Friday Oct 28th Info to come
VILLAGE ART WORKSHOPS Paint Party January 15th 3:30 to 6:30 2023 Info to come
VILLAGE ART WORKSHOPS Watercolor 2 day class January 16-17th 2023 Info to come
VILLAGE ART WORKSHOPS Acrylic 2 day class January 18-19th 2023 Info to come
Product of the Week
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Paint-a-long Details: Everyone has been asking for me to teach about rocks/boulders and underwater rocks... this image has both so that's what we are going to learn and paint this week.
If you want to show your paint-a-long work to my Facebook BeckerArt Group
January 1st the Sale Ends and I will be going back to before Covid Prices.
Over 700 Original Watercolor& Acrylic Paintings! Daily paintings are available for purchase, on sale $150 now $90 dollars
Covid Pandemic Prices to help me out. Sale ends at the start of the new year. Click HERE to buy my original daily painting below.
