BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter October 16th, Green

Published: Tue, 10/16/18

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #178 Green

Thank you to all of you that have sent my dad well-wishes and prayers, it is very appreciated.

To make things even more unbelievable, Last Thursday I was called and told that my mom was in a roll over car accident with entrapment. It ended up that my mom and her friend are fine and my mom only had a deep cut on her arm. I was so relieved. More good news was that my dad is also on the mend and he is recovering so well... knock on wood!

I have decided that I am cancelling the Armed Forces November preview exhibition and will do a full blown out exhibition in May 2019 for Memorial Day. This will give me enough time to do this exhibition correctly and I can take on more photos that I keep on receiving. Thank you for sending your pictures, I'm so glad that I can now paint more of them to honor our Veterans.

This week I am in North Carolina teaching a watercolor workshop for the Perquimans Art League

Next week I will be in Jacksonville Judging, instructing and demonstrating for the Jacksonville Watercolor Society.

Yes to Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville with Sue Macfarlan, Thursday, Oct. 18th 1 pm to 3:30

Yes to Open Studio at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, Oct. 20th 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Green

Summer is a great time of the year but I feel it is the most uninteresting look for artists to paint because everything is green. Here in the Midwest the grass, leaves and plants are all the same color green, from the foreground all the way to the background. I was told by Robert Wade that even if the greens in the background are visually the same as the foreground greens you need to grey down and dull down the background greens.

While driving to North Carolina this weekend I saw first hand how wonderful the fall colors are compared to everything being green. Painting trees with yellow, orange and reds really makes a painting so much more attractive. Just like a sunrise and a sunset are more attractive then a plain blue sky.

When I do use green in my paintings I mix my greens by using Quinacridone Gold and mixing it together with any of the blues on my palette. This gives me more natural greens compared to straight greens out of a tube.

If you use green in your paintings make sure you use a reddish earth tone to compliment the green. Red and green are compliments on the color wheel so they work together well in a paintings color scheme.

The greens I love are the blue greens like turquoises and dark blue greens. Lime green also works well with purple because of that green is more like a yellow, which is a compliment to purple.

Here's to Kermit who loves being green

David

Workshops and Demos in 2018

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

Workshops and Demos in 2019

Dillman's Festival, Marco Island Center for the Arts DEMO, Florida, January 27th, For Information Click Here

Marco Island Center for the Arts WORKSHOP, Florida, January 29th-30th, For Information Click Here

Morris Watercolor Guild Workshop, IL, March 1st, Information to come

Dillman's Acrylic Workshop, Lac du Flambeau, WI, June 3rd - 6th For Information Click Here

Vermont Art Event Workshop Classes, VT, July 29th - August 2nd, Information to come

Cheap Joes Workshop, Boone NC, Sept. 9th - 13th For Information Click Here

Dillman's Watercolor Workshop, Lac du Flambeau, WI, Sept. 23d - 26th For Information Click Here

Artist of the Week

Joe Miller is Cheap Joe's founder and many people don't know this but he is also a great teacher and artist.

Below is a video where he shows some great art tips. When I think of North Carolina I think Cheap Joes and why I made him Artist of the Week.

Five Quick and Easy Free Art Tips from "Cheap" Joe Miller

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For any other info please email me at david@davidrbecker.com