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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #151, Kanuga
This entire week I am teaching a workshop in North Carolina for the Kanuga Watermedia Workshops. Read this week's newsletter to see what this workshop is all about.
You can start bidding at the Art for the Paws fundraiser. To bid or just take a look go HERE
NOTICE! I will not be teaching local classes this week.
The Libertyville class will have Sue Macfarlan teaching this Thursday and Gary Wigman will be opening up the BeckerArt Gallery for those that want to go and paint on Saturday.
Sue Macfarlan teaches Class at the Civic Center Libertyville, Thursday, April 12th 1
pm to 3:30 NO Class at The Antioch Fine Arts Foundation, Thursday, April 12th Gary Wigman will open the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry for those that want to join him and paint, Saturday, April 14th
Kanuga Watermedia Workshops |
I have been here at the Kanuga Watermedia Workshop since Friday and I just want to say this place, the people and the workshop are outstanding. It only happens once a year and is such a huge event.
Many
students of mine know how much I love Dillman's in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, so much so, that I teach there twice a year. When I am asked how to describe Kanuga I say, "Kanuga is Dillman's on steroids". Kanuga is very much like Dillman's with the wonderful cabins, lake, things to do, wonderful people, great professional teachers and both places are just downright
wonderful!
Taking a workshop at a Kanuga or Dillman's lets artists spend 4 or 5 intense wonderful days learning their craft from professional instructors that come to these places from around the world. Full day workshops in general are so good for artists when wanting to advance their skills. At Kanuga and Dillman's you may just have one instructor for the week but you get to meet and talk art with numerous instructors and many student
artists that are also there looking to learn and meet other artists and instructors. It isn't just that you take a class for 4 or 5 days it is also meeting and networking with teachers and artists, along with watching lectures and demonstrations, going to galleries and Cheap Joes in the evening after the classes. At Kanuga it also means all your meals and drinks are part of the package.
Students and instructors stay in cabins or in the main hotel and
these places have everything you can think of when it comes to things like tennis court, shuffleboard, climbing wall, Yoga, trails, fire pits, canoes, kayaks and boats, bikes, towns close by if there was something that you forgot, art store and much much more. Usually, there is so much to do you really don't get enough time to do it all.
I have a wonderful group of students in my class this week and it feels like I have known them for years.
Teachers don't teach
here every year, they teach every other year, so I am hoping I get invited back in 2020. This kind of workshop is something I highly recommend and I would even consider taking a class myself one day, it's that fun and good.
If you have never taken a workshop like these from Kanuga or Dillman's you should put it on your bucket list of things you need to do.
David
Instructors Gallery and after class Happy Hour Place |
My BeckerArt Workshops and Demos in 2018 NEW WORKSHOPS JUST ADDED DEMO, Dupage Art League, DuPage, IL. April 16th For Information Click Here
DEMO, Dillman's Festival of Artists, Lac du Flambeau, WI. May 27th For Information Click Here
Le Mars Arts Council
Workshop, Le Mars, IA. June 5th -7th, For Information Click Here
Dillman's Spring Workshop, Wisconsin, June 10-15th, For information Click
Here
Vermont Art Event Classes. Burlington VT, July 23rd -27th, Information to come
Dillman's Fall Workshop, Wisconsin, September 9-14th, For information Click Here
Artisan Materials Expo Classes, Santa
Fe, September 27th-30th, For Information Click Here
Perquimans Arts League, Hertford NC, October 15th and 16th, For Information Click Here
Jacksonville Watercolor
Society Workshop, Jacksonville FL, October 24, 25, 26 For Information Click Here
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I have been a fan of Carol Carter for years and this week I was going to take her workshop but it just so happened I had to teach my own workshop so I couldn't make the Carol Carter workshop or demonstration with the Lakes Region Watercolor Guild.
If you get a chance to see or take her workshop please let me know
how it went even though it will make me totally jealous. Love her work and how she promotes herself.
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I now have 2 sets of BeckerArt Brushes... they are the original set which includes the 1 1/4" flat, the #16 round and the #4 rigger. My NEW brush set includes the 1/2" flat, the 1/4" flat and the #8 round Click Here
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