BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter Jan 2nd Thumbnail Sketching

Published: Tue, 01/02/24

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #449

Happy New Year! I hope you are as excited as I am to start the new year fresh and from the beginning. We will be starting with one color and will be learning and doing a refresher course of the fundamentals of watercolor. It doesn't matter how good you are with your skills of the medium, it is always a good idea to go over the fundamentals of painting.

Anybody interested in my 3 day Watercolor/Gouache workshop in St Augustine, Vilano Beach Jan. 29th, 30th and 31st Click this link to check out the webpage for this workshop.
I also will be at The Villages Art Workshops January 21st paint party, 22nd, 23rd Watercolor, 24th, 25th W/C Gouache

The watercolor above was done on my Sunday Demo with David

The Sunday demo is usually at 9am cst on my YouTube Channel.

Yes to Class at The Civic Center in Libertyville, Thurs, Jan 4th, 1pm to 3:30pm

Yes to Class, at The Studio in McHenry, Sat, Jan 6th, 9am to 11:30am

Email me at Beckerart@gmail.com for any info you may need about my classes or workshops.

Thumbnail Sketching

We start out this 1st week with painting a one color study even though the photo is a multi colored image. please watch how I sketch up a thumbnail sketch in the video below and then I want you to try doing some thumbnail sketches. The sketches can be of what we are painting on Thursday or take any of your own photos and practice doing thumbnail sketches of them.

BeckerArt Thumbnail Sketches for Designing a Value Pattern

Workshops 2024
Click Links below for more info and to sign-up
For those workshops that don't have a link please email me

Workshop at The Villages Art Center, W/C & Gouache, Florida Jan 21- 25th

St Augustine, Vilano Beach, Florida, Watercolor and Gouache Jan. 29th 30th 31st

Kanuga Watermedia Workshop, Montreat, W/C & Gouache, NC March 24-29

Southern Wisconsin Watercolor Society, W/C, Reedsburg WI May 1-2

Northeast Wisconsin Watercolor Society, W/C, Green Bay WI May 7-8
Dillmans, Lac du Flambeau, W/C & Gouache, WI June 10-13

Bagley Area Arts Collaborataive, Bagley, MN June 18-20
For more info on these workshops please email me

Product of the Week

Available Here

12 woodless pencils that will work really well with your thumbnail sketches.

Artist of the Week

Margaret Merry Spotted her work on TwitterX and loved the colors of her paintings.

The BeckerArt Paint-a-long Live Demo
Thursday January 4th at 6:30pm CST... Link below.

BeckerArt One Color Horse Riding Sunset Paint-a-long

The image in color and grayscale are for this week's Paint-a-long, which will be a one color exercise. You can also use black and white with that one color.
Click on image to open in a new window and then you can download it.

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