BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter March. 12th Mounting Panels

Published: Tue, 03/12/19

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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #199 Mounting Panels

Happy St Patrick's Week to all of you! This time of the year for us Midwesterner's can never come soon enough... it's that time of year when winter is coming to an end and the weather will hopefully start warming up. St Patrick's day and March Madness is also pretty fun and it is the only time I use green in my paintings:)!

I want to thank all that came out to watch me demonstrate for the Dillman's festival of Artist's at the LaGrange Art League. The 45-minute demonstration I did at the festival is shown below.

This Thursday is the Lakes Region Watercolor Guild's meeting/demonstration. Peggy Macnamara is the demonstrating artist for this month. Get info HERE

Yes To Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville, Thursday, March. 14th 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Yes To Class at BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, March. 16h 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Painting above is the demo that I did at the LaGrange Art League

Ready to Mount Panels

I have one more product that I have to share with you that I saw at the NAMTA EXPO. I think you will like and will benefit from this product if you like mounting your watercolor paper onto a board.

The product is from a family owned company called Multimedia Artboard. They sell different art paper panels that are ready to be used but the product that I liked was the ready-to-mount-panels. You can mount your own paper to these panels with ease and the panel is a very sturdy panel with a thickness that is a perfect size along with being lighter then hardboard panels.

The owner of the company came over to the booth I was demonstrating in and asked if he could mount a sheet of the Black 140lb watercolor paper that I was demonstrating on. I, of course, said yes, and In less than 5 minutes he had a watercolor panel ready for me to use. Then he asked if he could also mount a piece of YUPO paper for me and he got that one back to me even quicker. The paper was mounted onto these panels and made the 140lb paper and the Yupo wonderful to work on since now it was like 1000lb paper and it didn't buckle or wave a bit.

Here are a few reasons why you may want to mount your paper or canvas to a thicker hard surface.

If your paper is thin and it wrinkles when applying water, mounting it will illuminate wrinkles.
If after you painted a watercolor on thinner paper and it became wavy and you want to flatten it for framing, mounting it to this board will make it nice and flat.
300lb paper is great but when painting on it many of us tape it to a board so we can move it or put it on an easel. If you mount it first to one of these boards there will be no need to tape it to another board.
The best thing about this is you can mount any kind of paper you usually work with and make a board out of it in minutes without getting messy using gessos or acrylic grounds.

I am not endorsing this company, it's products or getting any money to say these things about this board, I just thought it was a cool product and wanted to share it with my readers.

Watch the video below to show you how easy it is to mount your paper to this board. The Board itself is white and made of some kind of sturdy plastic. The owner told me he cuts the panels with a table saw.

David

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WORKSHOPS and DEMOS in 2019

France WORKSHOP, Limoux, France, April 13th - 27th,
2 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

Artist of the Week

Peggy Macnamara

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.

Trish told me she gets many of her stencils at StencilGirlProducts.com and you can see her line of stencils there.

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