BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter Jan. 8th Used Materials

Published: Tue, 01/08/19

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #190 Used Materials

I hope you all had a great holiday season and are now enjoying the New Year. Are you all psyched about 2019 and ready to make this an amazing year for you and your art? I wish you all the best for making 2019 the best creative year ever and I hope I can help you and motivate you to create.

This year I have a bunch of things planned when it comes to my art. First off I have a new website... it is still in the beta stage as I keep on testing and making changes to it but I finally got it close to finish. see it here

Did you enter AWS? If you did I hope you made the cut and if you got in congratulations!
I entered for the first time this year but I did not make the cut. I am not disappointed as I know there are 1100 people that entered and I know this is a very hard show to get into. I will try again next year and see how it goes.
The painting that I entered is pictured below.

Steve Puttrich is the guest demonstrating artist this coming Thursday at the Lake Region Watercolor Guild here in Illinois. Information HERE

For those of you that are or have been on the committee of the Lakes Region Watercolor Guild while I have been President, I am offering a 1-day free workshop for you on January 14th from 9am to 4pm. I will bring it up again and give more info at the meeting on the 10th.

Yes to Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville, Thursday, Jan 10th 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Yes to Class at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, Jan. 12th 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Used Art Materials

One of my favorite past times has always been picking and if you aren't sure what I mean when I say picking check out American Pickers on the History channel. When my kids were young I use to take my youngest to estate sales, garage sales, yard sales, you name it sales every Saturday morning until I started teaching on Saturday mornings. There is something so satisfying about finding a good deal.

This week's newsletter will give you places where you can hopefully get a good deal on used and new art supplies. I always check these sources when I am looking for something I can't afford new but probably can purchase used.

The first thing I do before I look for a certain item is to see how much it is new and I usually do that on Amazon or for art supplies I check out all three big art stores online, which are Blicks, Jerry's and Cheap Joes. I educate myself on how much the items cost new, then I go looking to see if I can get them used or like new at a great price.

Here are all the places I look for deals online:

Then there are the sites that are more specialized to art supplies:

Creative-Resale
Facebook has groups where they sell art supplies
The Artist Garage Group
Artist Supplies: Give, Take, Sale

There are local places:

Don't be afraid to ask your art friends if they have any supplies to sell. At our meetings of the Lakes Region Watercolor guild, there is a table set up at each meeting where members can bring any of their supplies and they can sell to other members. Start something like that at your art club or just do it personally with your artist friends when you attend a get-together. I know many artists tell me they have supplies they would like to get rid of or would be happy to trade.

Warning! don't buy old watercolor paper. Watercolor paper can go bad and the sizing breaks down making it terrible to paint on. I know this first hand as I once bought a large supply of watercolor paper where I thought I got a great deal... all the Arches paper was old and didn't take watercolor smoothly... I did gesso the paper and used it for acrylics, worked in the end but this is just a warning.

Here is to finding a great pick!

David

WORKSHOPS and DEMOS in 2019

Dillman's Festival, Ft Myers Beach Art Association DEMO, Florida, January 26th
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Dillman's Festival, Marco Island Center for the Arts DEMO, Florida, January 27th,
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Marco Island Center for the Arts WORKSHOP, Florida, January 29th-30th,
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Dillman's Festival, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, DEMO & Paint Party, Florida, February 1st
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Dillman's Festival, The Villages, Demo & Paint Party, Florida, February 2nd
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Morris Watercolor Guild WORKSHOP, IL, March 1st,
Information to come

France Workshop WORKSHOP,France, April 13th-27th,
WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT

Dillman's Acrylic WORKSHOP, Lac du Flambeau, WI, June 3rd - 6th
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Vermont Art Event WORKSHOP Classes, VT, July 29th - August 2nd,
Information to come

Cheap Joes WORKSHOP, Boone NC, Sept. 9th - 13th
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Dillman's Watercolor WORKSHOP, Lac du Flambeau, WI, Sept. 23d - 26th
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Artist of the Week Josep Cruañas

This week's Artist of the Week is a painter I found who liked my page on Instagram. I went to his site after he started following my page. This is a good way of finding artists, see who follows you on Instagram and Facebook and go and check out their pages. While you are at their page go ahead and follow them back, it's a great way to learn of new artists that you may never had heard of before and you will both help each other out with new viewers.

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