BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter July 9th, Water Sparkle

Published: Tue, 07/09/19

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #215 Water Sparkle

Yesterday I had the opportunity to demonstrate for a small art club up in Oregon, Wisconsin. They only had time for me to do a 1/2 half hour demonstration so I got into illustrator mode and whipped out a fast painting. See me Holding the painting below. It isn't about how fast you can paint, it's simplifying the large shapes and making large value patterns and having 35 years of experience in painting and being a storyboard artist also makes one pretty quick.

I am looking to get a few more people to sign up for my Cheap Joes workshop in September. This is the only 5-day workshop where I cover everything from basics to working on the new Black Stonehenge watercolor paper. This is the workshop where you get it all... my only 5-day workshop where you get everything and it's at Cheap Joes, no better place to learn so many new things. Please sign-up ASAP so I can make this workshop happen.

SIGN-UP HERE

David

Yes to Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville, Thursday, July 11th

Yes To Class at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, July 13th 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Water Sparkle

One of my favorite subjects to paint are boat and water scenes, and just recently I learned a great trick to make your water in a scene look super great!

I add sparkle to the water which happens a lot when you look over a body of water where the sun is directly in front of you, over the water.

So if you have a plain boring view of a water scene like I have posted below, take a minute and add some sparkle. See the 2 paintings below to see how I changes an overcast scene into a sunny bright scene.

To put the sparkle in your watercolors just use masking fluid and put loads of dots in the water and keep the sky really light above those dots, and that's it, instant sparkly water.

Have a Sparkly Day!
David

Above is not so exciting a scene, then with a little sparkle in the water the scene below becomes a little more exciting.I turned an overcast day into an extremely sunny day!

I also put a little sparkle in the water behind the ladies head below.

WORKSHOPS and DEMOS in 2019

Morris Watercolor Guild CLASS, Liberty ARTS Festival, Morris, IL. July 20th

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Vermont Art Event WORKSHOP Classes, VT, July 29th - August 2nd,
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Wallacks Art Supply store CLASSES Ottawa, Ontario August 10th

For Information Morning Class, Afternoon Class

Art and Soul Watercolor Group WORKSHOP, Baldwinsville, NY, August 12th - 14th,
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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Product of the Week

The product I am posting this week is a Artist Pochade Box Easel. There are so many of these types of easels on the market and many are super expensive. I think this one for the price seems like a really good deal.

This easel attaches to a tripod.
I like that you could do watercolors that lay slightly on a angle with this easel and still have a place to put your large watercolor palette. BUY HERE

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Question of the Week

Questioned Asked:

Hello David- I am new to watercolor and as I was buying supplies for a class I had asked around about watercolor paper and what is the best watercolor paper on the market, and it seemed that Arches was the paper that most people mentioned. Is Arches the best watercolor paper on the market.

Questioned Answered:

That is a question I don't think I can totally answer because I don't think there is only one paper that is the best because the best paper for some could be the worst paper for others. Arches is a very popular paper because it holds up as one of the toughest papers and can take a good beating, but a personal taste for certain papers are even a bigger factor. I, for instance, love Arches but I love Strathmore Bristol board even better. So I believe it's more about what you like in a paper that will decide what paper you will like best.

I recommend you try samples of premium papers and then you decide which is the best paper for you.

If you have a question that you want answered, write me at david@davidrbecker.com

Artist of the Week

Catherine Hearding

I found this ladies work in the AWS catalog and I looked her up on google. She just so happens that she does some amazing water scenes. If you look closely at the water in this scene you will see that she too uses little dots to put sparkle in her water.

BeckerArt Brushes work with all the color schemes you can come up with.

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