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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #198 Stencils
What a packed couple of weeks it has been for my students, myself and the art world. First, it was the Dillman festivals followed by New Blick store in Evanston IL. with its artist bar, then the NAMTA EXPO with the NEW Black Stonehenge Aqua and Holbein Chromashine, ending with a workshop for the Morris Watercolor Guild in Illinois and a huge paint party in my studio on Saturday night. But it doesn't end there, I still have this coming Friday where I will be demonstrating for the
Dillman's Festival of Artists at the LaGrange Art League along with a paint party before the festival. Check it all out HERE.
Did you enter the TWSA exhibition? Last Friday the invited and not invited letters went out and I was lucky enough to get one of my paintings invited. If you entered I do hope you got in.
Thanks for the great responses and questions about the Black Stonehenge Aqua watercolor paper. I will let you know when they launch the paper into stores.
I have had some spots open up for the France trip in April so if you are interested please contact me ASAP. Here is some info on the trip. FRANCE TRIP
I met a great artist Trish McKinney at the NAMTA EXPO and she showed me a couple of things that I want to pass on to you in this newsletter.
Yes To Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville, Thursday, March. 7th 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Yes To Class at BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, March. 9th 9:00 am to 11:30 am
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Almost like clockwork I tell students each week that they should always try new things and this week I am bringing you something to try... the world of stencils. Stencils are shapes cut into a thin plastic or paper and you can use them to apply shapes to your paintings or remove shapes from your paintings.
Stencils are not a new thing but I am noticing that more and more watercolorist are using them. Stencils have been used with airbrushing for a long time but artists in the fine art field of mixed media have taken the stencil to a whole new level. Now watercolorist have found a great use for them too and it has become very popular.
About a year ago I was introduced to using a stencil to rub a circle in the sky so it would look like a moon. Then I also used a magic eraser for wiping off the paint over a stencil of a seagull which instantly makes a light seagull appear in a blue sky. That kind of stenciling was all I thought could be done with a stencil. Then I took Jean Pederson's class in Vermont last year and I saw how she uses it as a design element throughout the whole painting.
Below I did a regular painting of a Rooster like it was in a photo, a rooster in a setting of a barnyard with a fence. Then in a class, I decided to show the students that I could also do the same rooster but this time use a stencil to enhance the design and not put the rooster in a realistic setting but instead make it appear as part of a design element. There is no right or wrong to these paintings of the rooster below, it is 2 ways of creating a painting of a rooster, some like
the rooster in a setting and some like it to be part of a design.
Where can you get stencils like the one I used in the work below. Go to StencilGirlProducts.com
Start creating art and don't be a slave to the photo, don't think that you have to copy exactly what the photo shows you. Create art and do it the way you like... tight, loose, photographic, abstract it, push the colors, use one color, do whatever you heart desires and create! Try new things and who knows you may come up with a style that you can call your own.
Create!
David
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WORKSHOPS and DEMOS in 2019
Dillman's and, LaGrange Art League, DEMO March 8th
PAINT PARTY 1-3pm DEMO 4-7pm Click Here
France Workshop WORKSHOP,France, April 13th-27th,
WORKSHOP has 3 more openings info HERE
Dillman's Acrylic WORKSHOP, Lac du Flambeau, WI, June 3rd - 6th
For Information Click Here
Dillman's Festival of Artists DEMO, Hibbing Minnesota June 7th
For info Click Here
Dillman's Festival of Artists DEMO, Ely Minnesota June 8th
For info 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
Last week at the NAMTA Expo in San Antonio I met an artist, Trish McKinney, working in a booth next to the one I was working at and I was astounded by her work. I talked with Trish a couple of times and she gave me some great advice about teaching and painting. At one point I brought over a piece of the new Black Stonehenge Aqua paper I was working
on and I asked her if she would show me a few things that she was doing on my piece. She took out a stencil and made the art work look amazing. The exercise piece we did together is below. I took it back to my booth to exercise on it more but I then wreaked the whole thing by playing around with it to much. But watching her with the stencil made me see how great you can make a painting with a little creative touch.
For any other info please email me at david@davidrbecker.com |
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