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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #201 Watermedia Workshop
This is my 201 newsletter and I rarely use my newsletter for just advertising, I have written this newsletter for the purpose of educating and helping my student subscribers in as many ways as I can when it comes to creating works of art. I love when I give out tips and information and then I see students using those tips in one of my classes, it makes it so well worth it. This week I am breaking my rule of not using my newsletter to advertise just for this week to tell you
about one of my workshops. I feel it necessary to talk about this workshop at Dillman's in June because it is a totally new class for me and I believe it will be one amazing class that I don't want my students to miss out on. I will talk about the workshop below.
This coming Saturday I head to Kanuga Watermedia Workshops in North Carolina to do a week as the Artist In Residence. Last year I was so inspired by teaching this workshop that I had to go back this year even though I will not be teaching a class. I will be one of the Artists in Residence and I plan on getting a lot of painting done with a bunch of different mediums and hopefully new styles. I also hope to
meet a lot of artists and I hope we all can inspire each other. Watch for my newsletter next week as I will be updating you on my progress as the artist in residence.
I am disappointed that I will not be able to make the Dillman's Festival in Hopkins, Minnesota this year in April. I have made that festival ever since it was started. This year my last minute France workshop coincides with the festival so I will be in France when the festival takes place. To all my artist friends and students in Minnesota, I am sorry that I won't see you this spring, however, if you are around Hibbing Minnesota June 7th I will be at that Dillman's Festival demonstrating. I will not be able to do the Ely, MN Dillman's Festival on the 8th because I have to get back to the TWSA Awards Dinner in Kenosha as one
of my paintings was accepted into that exhibition. It is an awards dinner I don't want to miss.
Yes To Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville, Thursday, March. 28th 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
No Becker Class but there will be an open studio at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry,
with Gary Wigman Saturday, March. 30th 9:00 am to 11:30 am
The Most Important
Watermedia Workshop
June 2nd - 7th at Dillman's
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I am super excited about this new watermedia class I will be teaching this coming June at Dillman's. I am excited about teaching this class because it is something totally different for my students and for me too.
In the last couple of months I have been working a lot with trying out new techniques and mediums with watercolor and acrylics on all sorts of different papers and now I want to share with you everything I learned. This workshop in June will be 4 days of totally new lessons with every lesson being something different that you probably have never tried before.
My hope is that students will come away with inspiration to try new mediums and techniques and to use these new techniques to create new styles and techniques in their work. I want students to work at finding new ways of painting that will hopefully advance their artistic abilities. Using watercolors together with 4 other types of acrylic paint can truly spark your creative side and hopefully will inspire students into a new way of painting and creating.
I have learned many new techniques from artists like Bob Burridge, Linda Kemp along with Jean Pederson and all these artists have done both watercolor and acrylics and they gave me some great insight on how all these styles and mediums work so well together. This will be very exciting to share with my students, I can't wait to see what every student will come up
with.
A great thing about this class is that you just bring yourself and an open creative mind to fill with all new techniques and many wonderful mediums. The sweetest thing is that all the art materials we will be working with are supplied by me with help from Holbein Paints and Legion Papers.
The class will be working with Fluid Acrylics, Ink Acrylics, Heavy-bodied Acrylics, and Acryla Gouache along with Holbein Transparent and Opaque watercolors. There will also be some additive mediums we will mix with our watercolors to make them translucent and make the watercolors become acrylic. We will use watercolor paper along with the newly released Black watercolor paper, Yupo paper, and Canvas pads. We will be using masking fluid and many different kinds of brushes. Remember that all
art materials will be totally supplied so you don't have to bring a thing to this workshop. This reason alone makes the workshop very attractive to many students. If you had to go out and buy all the supplies for a workshop like this with so many different mediums and papers and brushes you would spend well over 500 dollars. This is a one time deal that I have put together using my Holbein and Legion papers connection and I don't think I will ever be able to give my students this
kind of deal again. Please sign-up asap so you don't miss out. Sign-up at Dillman's.com HERE or call them at 715-588-3143.
Check out some of the paintings I did with a combo of acrylics and watercolors at the Dillmans website HEREThe only paintings that I didn't send to Dillman's for their website are the Acrylic Inks on Yupo, that image you can see below.
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WORKSHOPS and DEMOS in 2019
France WORKSHOP, Limoux, France, April 13th - 27th,
For Information 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
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
NEW! Question of the Week
One of my students this week asked me "how do you apply paint with a stencil in watercolor"?
My Answer: This may seem like a silly question but it actually is a great question because it is very important when applying paint over a stencil in watercolor to not make it a wet wash with a brush. I recommend you use more of a dry brush effect with very little water. A good example is shown in the first title painting above that I did of the crane background.
Another good way of using a stencil on a watercolor is to not paint on the stencil but instead wipe and scrub away the paint with a damp sponge over the stencil and blot with a paper towel. This way gives you a light stencil look instead of a dark applied stencil look.
I Found this artist on Pinterest and his work just spoke to me... Beautiful, with a very clean style. I tell all my students to try to keep their paintings clean and fresh.
I also like this artist because he also does other mediums besides watercolor, I think acrylics or oils, couldn't tell exactly what medium he used.
For any other info please email me at david@davidrbecker.com |
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