BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter Jan. 21st, Transfer Paper

Published: Tue, 01/21/20

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #243, Transfer Paper

Hello from Miami Florida. Probably one of the most artsy towns I have ever visited.
If you ever visit Miami I highly recommend that you see the Wynwood Walls. In this area of Miami most of the buildings in that area are covered with some of the most amazing murals.

This coming weekend I will be in Dunedin, Florida. If you are looking to take a one day class from me and are in the area, GO HERE to sign up. I will also have a Paint Party there on Friday the 24th at 6pm GO HERE FOR INFO

In February I will be heading back up to Minnesota to do 2 painting sessions for the Borealis Art Guild in Hibbing MN. These are more of a paint party type class, one is in acrylics and the other is in watercolor.

Painting above was painted in 45 minutes for the Dillman's Festival of Artists at The Villages Art Center last weekend.

While I am in Florida please see below for info if my weekly classes are running with substitute Sue Macfarlan or Gary Wigman.

Yes to Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville with Sue Macfarlan,Thursday, Jan. 23rd 1pm to 3:30pm

Yes to open studio with Gary Wigman at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, Jan.18th 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Transfer Paper

For many of my workshops, I tell my students to use the transfer paper that I supply so that they can quickly get the drawing onto the paper. This gives the class more time to learn about the watercolor medium. My classes are about learning to do a watercolor or an acrylic painting and the drawing part I can not teach in that short time so I focus more on the painting. In time I will probably start teaching a drawing class but until I do I have the classes use transfer paper to get their drawing from the photo to the watercolor paper.

The transfer paper I use is sold by Jack Richeson and it comes in a roll. I find this type of transfer paper works better than the graphite transfer paper by Saral which is made with the dark part being actual graphite which I find to be very messy to work with. Saral transfer paper also comes in a roll.

I have bought sheets of transfer paper at places like Hobby Lobby that come in 9x13" sizes. these sheets are too small for my classes since a quarter sheet of watercolor paper is 11 x 14".

Transfer paper is very easy to use, follow simple steps below:
The first thing and this is important, find out which side of the transfer paper gets placed onto the surface of your watercolor paper. Most of the transfer papers you will place the darker black side down onto the paper or surface you will be painting on. The lighter side faces up and is what you place your print reference or line drawing onto.

There will be 3 layers the bottom will be the surface you later will be painting on that will have the line drawing, the middle layer will be the transfer paper with the dark side down. The top layer is what you will be tracing on and that tracing will transfer to the painting surface.

When you are tracing make sure you do one line and right away check to see if it is working and see how hard you have to press to make the transfer dark enough so you can see it. Don't do the whole transfer without looking first to see if it is working. many of my students do that and find they did one mistake like put the transfer paper upside down and wasted the whole time tracing the image just to have it transferred to the printed reference.

Some of the transfer papers like the Richeson paper leave a dark line that can't be erased so you need to be aware of that. If you want to be able to erase the line then you want to use the graphite transfer paper, but be aware that the graphite paper is very messy if you smear your hand across the paper.

Thanks David

WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020

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

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

PAINT CLASS Borealis Art Guild, Acrylic, W/C Hibbing, MN, Feb. 8th and 9th INFO HERE

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 HERE

DILLMAN'S FEST at my Gallery in McHenry, IL. May 3rd INFO HERE

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-31st INFO TO COME

Product of the Week
Transfer Paper

This is the transfer paper I use the most.
Buy it here

Artist of the Week

Larry Lombardo

Spotted Larry's work on Facebook last week. This painting really stuck out as amazing. Very nice work!

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