BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter February 23rd Subject Matter

Published: Tue, 02/23/16

 
Hello 

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #43 Subject Matter

I can't believe I have already written up 43 newsletters, I have so many more things I want to teach every one, so I won't be stopping anytime soon. Thanks to all of you that have written to me, to thank me for writing this newsletter, It has been my pleasure my pleasure.
I am looking to update my website and I would like to get some testimonials and reviews of my newsletter and my BeckerArt brushes. If you would like to write a review, you could send it to me at david@davidrbecker.com

Today I am excited but also a little sad because my daughter is heading off to Seattle to start her new Physical Therapist job. Hopefully, I will get a chance in the near future to visit her, so If there is an art league or group in Seattle that needs a workshop instructor, send me a message, I'll be happy to pack my bags to teach there along with visiting my daughter!

This week I talk about subject matter being everywhere.

YES to Class this Thursday at the Civic Center in Libertyville
YES  to Class this Saturday at The Studio in McHenry.

Cheers!
David
 
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Subject Matter
I know many students that have the problem of not knowing what to paint. First off I always say paint what you love and know a great deal about, many times this alone doesn't do it for a student.
Here is some advice I once received and now I pass it on to you... "Most everything and anything is paintable". I have 100s of photos to prove that I would try to paint most anything when I was a student at The Academy. I have photos of things like a tree stump, a gutter spout, a door knob and so many other things that if you would look in my student photo albums you'd think I had a few screws loose. 
But to be creative one shouldn't just copy what other artists have done through the years, try to be creative with everyday things you see and love.
Below is something I read on the web a couple of days ago and it holds so true to what I am talking about this week in my newsletter.

"The advice I like to give young artists or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case." -Chuck Close

Just Paint will be my new slogan this week!
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Watercolor Artist of the Week
Each week I will be bringing you an artist that I admire and that amazes me. I hope these artist's will amaze and inspire you to keep on painting and develop your own style as much as they inspire me.

This guy paints a few things I'm sure you never thought about painting. Things like plastic bottles in the ground. Like I said everything is paintable.
 
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