BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter January 26th Moving Water

Published: Tue, 01/26/16

 
Hello 

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #39 Moving Water

Can't wait until this coming Sunday when I will be demonstrating at the Marco Island Arts Center in Florida. It's always fun meeting new artists from other states. I hope to talk to a few places about doing a workshop down there next year. 

Monday morning my computers hard drive crashed, luckily I had most of this newsletter finished.
I am now looking into saving my files on the cloud, along with saving files on another external hard drive. I will put my findings, about backing up one's files in a future newsletter. Sooner or later every hard drive will fail so if you don't want to loose all your files, one needs to back up those hard drives. Something I should have done long ago..... live and learn.

YES to Class this Thursday at the Civic Center in Libertyville
NO CLASS Saturday at The Studio in McHenry.

Happy Painting!
David
 
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Moving Water

My favorite three things I love to paint are cities, boats and water, and this is the reason my favorite place for painting is Venice, Italy. 

When it comes to painting moving water I had a great teacher and Mentor that did some of the best-looking waterfalls, his name of course, was Irving Shapiro. He did a great job teaching us how to paint so many different things, but the place I learn the most about painting the ripples and spray of water was from watching Disney animated movies. If you watch Bambi or The Fox and the Hound, or any of those older Disney classics you will see how they simplify the water movement by just making the ripples and spray by using  white or a very light color.below you can see a few examples of how simple light lines and areas are used to show the movement and look of water splashing or rippling.  

In my paintings, I use the white of the paper to show splashing water or the movement of the water surface.     You can see by the samples below that if you want to show spray or movement, leave the paper white.

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Check out the white moving water at the Dillman's Festival of Artists at the Marco Island Center for the Arts Jan. 31st
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On January 31st, I will be demonstrating for the Dillman's Festival of the Artists in Florida at the Marco Island Center for the Arts.
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BeckerArt Brushes
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NEW! The BeckerArt Brushes are now available to purchase.

1 1/4" Flat Series 020, #16 Round and a #4 Rigger Holbein Gold, Short Handle, Superior Synthetic Blend Watercolor Brushes. Made to my specifications, which were, The point of the 1 1/4" flat brush and the # 16 round had to come to a razor sharp point, along with a bounce back to straight action when applying watercolor to paper. The # 4 Rigger had to be the perfect length, the perfect thickness and the perfect point.


The BeckerArt  1 1/4" brush retails for $40.65  you can get a personally autographed BeckerArt Brush direct from me for $25.00
The BeckerArt  #16 Round retails for $25.00  you can get a personally autographed BeckerArt Brush direct from me for $18.00

The BeckerArt #4 Rigger retails for $8.75 you can get this brush direct from me for $6.00 To small to autograph

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NEW!  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 is the master of negative painting and the teaching of negative painting. 
I have the pleasure of seeing Linda at least once a year in Vermont at Holbein's Vermont Art Event. I have taken a few of her classes and she is an amazing teacher. You can also get her videos and books on her website.
 
Link of the Week
You can learn a lot from watching how the artists at Walt Disney draw and animate.
 
 For any other info please email me at david@davidrbecker.com