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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #45 Different Mediums I am very excited this week, I have my Greek Island workshop room reserved and now I can't wait to head off to paradise on October 5th. The Greek Islands will be a workshop of a lifetime and if you can come with
me on this workshop I can guarantee you will be getting some amazing painting done. If anybody needs more info on the trip, you can contact me personally and I will try to answer any questions you may have. Thanks to all of you that are already signed up.... we still have room for more. I also may need a roommate, if anybody is interested, let me know, it could save us both a lot of money.
Tonight I am demonstrating at the Northland Area Art League in Woodstock IL. at 7pm. at The Opera House. I will be demonstrating in Holbein Fluid Acrylics.
This coming Thursday Is the Lakes Region Watercolor Guild meeting with Fatima Figueirdo as the demonstrator. For more info go Here
YES to Class this Thursday at the Civic Center in Libertyville
YES to Class this Saturday at The Studio in McHenry.
Happy Painting! David
Using Different Mediums as Watercolor |
Tonight I will be demonstrating the use of Holbein's Fluid Acrylics for the Northland Area Art League in Woodstock IL. Showing the League how to use them like watercolor. I have been asked why I use Fluid Acrylics.... I tell all my students it is very good and creative to always try many different kinds of mediums and painting surfaces, you never know
when you will find the medium and surface you love the most. Many of the masters had always used all sorts of different mediums, for instance, Andrew Wyeth had done watercolor but was probably more famous for his egg tempera paintings, like Christina's World. My mentor Irving Shapiro also used acrylics way before they made Fluid Acrylics.
One of his acrylics is pictured below.
Don't be afraid to try new things, it keeps your creative juices flowing and who knows, you may be the first person to do a medium in a way that nobody else has done before.
Both of my paintings in this newsletter were done in Fluid Acrylics.
`This painting above was done on Arches Watercolor Board with Holbein's Fluid Acrylics and was the demonstration I did for the Lake Region Watercolor Guild. Pictured above are the Holbein Fluid Acrylics that I will be using in my demonstration tonight at The Northland Area Art League, Woodstock IL. at The Opera House at 7pm |
Yes you can use my BeckerArt Brushes with Fluid Acrylics...Just make sure you rinse them real good after you use them with Fluid Acrylics. |
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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.
Linda kemp is a good friend of mine that was the
first person that taught me how to turn my watercolors into acrylics by adding a gel medium.
her watercolor and acrylic work are amazing!
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Before there were fluid Acrylics there were artists that were using acrylics like watercolor, my mentor Irving Shapiro was one of them. He has a lovely painting published in this book which I scanned out of this book and posted below.
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