BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter Dec. 3rd, Poolside Sketching

Published: Tue, 12/03/19

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #236, Poolside Sketching

I'm finally back home after a nice 3 week's away in Duluth and last week in Miami, Florida.
If you are an artist I highly recommend Miami, they have art everywhere.
So many buildings that are all painted up... and I have to say many of the buildings that have graffiti painted on them were really really good paintings. I guess some call them graffiti but I call them great works of art.

Thank you to those of you that wrote me about the special newsletter last week in memory of Norma Jeanne Wasicke. Norma's passing came so suddenly for many of us in my class, we are going to miss her so much and the Saturday morning class will never be the same without her.

Next Thursday the 12th of December is the Lakes Region Watercolor Guilds meeting with Gordon France as the demonstrator.

Yes to Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville,Thursday, Dec. 5th 1pm to 3:30pm

Yes to Class at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, Dec. 7th 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Poolside Sketching

Something that is becoming really popular with artists is this Urban Sketching thing. Urban Sketching or many call it a type of plein-air painting seems to be the thing to do these days for many artists. Last week in Miami I had the pleasure of sitting on a beach and by a pool and had a great time sketching the scenes around me.

Below is one of 3 sketches I did while traveling in Florida last week. The spiral bound pad is a Stonehenge pad of paper and I just used 2 simple brushes in my very small palette filled with Holbein paints.

These sketches are a really fun and fast way to keep on painting even when you are on vacation.
See below the steps I took to create a poolside sketch.

Here is the image of the scene I sketched while in Miami, Florida.

The first step is a pencil sketch that I did with a regular 2b pencil.

Next I start painting in the large light colored areas. I don't get to tight with these sketches because they are after all sketches and not a finished tight painting. Look to get in all the light large areas of the sketch.

Next wash I start putting in the medium washes and finish up all the light and medium colors.

I finish off the sketch by putting in all the darks and the details. This part takes the most time because this is when the painting comes together because the darks identify objects and make the details appear.

WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020

DILLMAN'S FEST & PAINT PARTY Village Art Center, Summerfield, Florida, Jan 12th INFO TO COME

WORKSHOP Village Art Center, W/C, Summerfield, Florida, Jan 13th and 14th, INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Village Art Center, Acrylic, Summerfield, Florida, Jan 15th and 16th, INFO HERE

PAINT PARTY Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida, Jan 24th INFO TO COME

WORKSHOP Dunedin Fine Art Center, W/C, Dunedin, Florida, Jan 25th INFO TO COME

WORKSHOP Morris Watercolor Guild, W/C, Morris, IL., March 6th INFO TO COME

WORKSHOP Brevard Watercolor Society, W/C, Melbourne, Florida, March 15th-17th INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Lake Superior Watercolor Guild, W/C, Duluth, MN, March 26th- 28th INFO TO COME

WORKSHOP Dillman's, Lac Du Flambeau, W/C, Wisconsin, June 29th to July 2nd INFO TO COME

Product of the Week
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The sketch pad up above was something like this pad
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