BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter March 31st, Traveling the World

Published: Tue, 03/31/20

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #253, Traveling the World

Well if you aren't sure of what day it is, it's Tuesday week 2 for all you artists-in-residence and I hope you are staying active and painting up a storm. Then again if you are anything like me I have been thrown off my schedule and need to get back on some kind of schedule that will work better then what I have been doing. If you don't have a schedule as of yet, may I strongly suggest you start making one and make sure to make it easy enough to follow and include some painting creative time in the mix.

I am still working on getting some online classes going with Zoom.us and thanks to all of you that have emailed me to help with advice and those that want to start taking some online classes. If you want to set yourself up so you will be ready for many of the online classes on the internet, you might try getting yourself acquainted with Zoom.us and make sure you have the right equipment to take an online course. I will let everyone know when I am ready to teach online.

Thank you to those people that go through my website to get to Amazon, it is greatly appreciated and helps me bring you this newsletter. You can also use this LINK TO AMAZON TO HELP

for those of you that love to travel and paint, today's newsletter is for you, see below

NO CLASSES at the Civic Center in Libertyville until further notice.

NO CLASSES at the BeckerArt Gallery until further notice.

Traveling the World Online

Are you one of those artists that like traveling to new places looking for new and wonderful things to paint. I am one of those artists and since we are all inside painting and can't travel too faraway places to paint or to look for wonderful places to photograph, I am here to show you how you still can take those trips and find wonderful scenery around the world.

Every once in awhile I go on a virtual online trip to find interesting places to paint. How do I do this you may be asking, well I use street view on GoogleMaps or BingMaps to do that.
https://www.google.com/maps
https://www.bing.com/maps

Both these websites have a Street View feature where you can travel down streets all over the world.
I usually just pick a random country, then a random town and then a random street and I look to see what I can find.

Not only do these sites have Street Views but they also have boats and walking views of the world.
It is an endless amount of views that can bring you to almost every tourist attraction known to man. Then when there isn't a street that google maps or bing hasn't gone down, you can find what other people post of that area in a 360-degree photo. Those images are identified on street view with a small blue dot.

So next time you feel like you don't have anything to paint because you are stuck inside... go on a Street View virtual trip and don't forget to bring your journal.

Happy Virtual Traveling, don't forget to send postcards

David

Click on these image above and below and it will take you to google maps and it will show you exactly where I found these images on a world map.

Sometimes they change the street view on Google maps so you can sometimes travel back to the same location and get a different view. Picture above and painting below are from Cheap Joes town of Boone, NC.

WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020

WORKSHOP Lake Superior Watercolor Guild, W/C, Duluth, MN, CANCELED will be Rescheduled

DEMONSTRATION_DILLMAN'S FEST at my Gallery in McHenry, IL. May 3rd CANCELED

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

WORKSHOP Vermont Art Event, W/C& Acrylic, Burlington, Vermont, July 27th to July 31st CANCELED

WORKSHOP Thousand Island Art Center, W/C, Thousand Island, NY, August 4th to August 6th INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Goshen Painters Guild, W/C, Indiana, August 13th to August 15th INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Dillman's, Lac Du Flambeau, W/C, Wisconsin, Aug. 31st to Sept. 3rd INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Artisan Expo, W/C & Acrylics, Santa Fe, MN. Sept. 24th to Sept. 26th INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Sangamon Watercolor Society, W/C, Springfield, IL. Oct. 9th to Oct. 12th INFO HERE

Product of the Week
Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress 140lb

Are you painting so much at home that you are running out of paper. If you are I would highly recommend you try the Stonehenge Aqua Pad of 140lb coldpress paper.
Buy it here

Maybe you are not a 140lb user and you only use 300lb then you need to get this pad HERE

Artist of the Week

John Singer Sargent

Saw some Sargent watercolors this week online and it just reminded me how much I love his watercolor works.

You can get a great watercolor book of Sargent's work by clicking book below.

BeckerArt Brushes

Click Here to Purchase BeckerArt Brushes

Shop Amazon by clicking the logo below to help me fund this newsletter... Thank You!

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