BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter May 19th, Royalty Free Photos

Published: Tue, 05/19/20

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #260, Royalty Free Photos

Week 9 and I'm getting use to wearing a mask and rubber gloves, but it seems really strange to go to a bank in a mask, just never thought that was something I would ever do.

I have to so many wonderful people to thank as I keep on receiving help to keep my BeckerArt Business afloat. Many of you are also still buying many of my demo art pieces. I can't thank you enough for helping me keep the BeckerArt studio/classroom/business open. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
I am planning 2 separate free workshops for when business gets back to me teaching live in-person workshops for those people that donated funds and the other for those that purchased my art. I have everyone's information and I will keep you up to date on these workshops.

The next in-person live, watercolor workshop that you can sign up for will be at Dillman's June 28-July 3, 2020. It is a go and everyone will be practicing social distancing at the resort, so sign-up HERE

If you would like to see a recap of my Facebook Live demonstrations you can see them on my YouTube channel by clicking HERE

Thanks to those of you that use my LINK TO AMAZON. when you purchase anything on Amazon

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

NO CLASSES at the BeckerArt Gallery until further notice.

Where to get Royalty Free Photos

Last Saturday in my Facebook Live demonstration I talked about a royalty-free photo website that I used to acquire the picture that I was painting. I had gotten a few people asking me about that site so I decided to give you all the info in this week's newsletter about the sites I visit when I am looking for photo references for my classes.

I teach my students that they should paint things that they love and know a lot about. But what do you do as a student that now has to stay inside and can't go and photograph the subjects like one would normally do. You go online as you do with everything else lately and you find royalty-free photo websites. Yes, there are actually websites that let you use photographer's images and I have a list of them below.

The websites that I have listed below are places that you can download high-resolution quality photos and videos that you can use because they are royalty-free. The license on their site states that you can use the photos you download from their site any way you would like. You can thank the photographers for the downloaded photos you use but it isn't a requirement. These stock images are free to you and is why I usually do thank the photographer.

When finding photo sites like these you do have to watch out because some claim that they have free images but you have to buy a monthly subscription to download the photos. The websites listed below are totally free and not subscription sites.

When you go to the site just type in what you are looking for and boom, you get tons of photos to look through.
I am showing you these sites because of the pandemic keeping people inside, but once you can get out and take your own photos I highly recommend that you do that overusing other peoples photos. Taking your own photos is a way of getting to know your own subject matter. But since you don't have that option at the moment and since you will be using these photos as student studies, have at it and paint, paint, paint!

https://unsplash.com/

https://www.pexels.com/

https://burst.shopify.com/

https://www.freeimages.com/

https://pixabay.com/

https://kaboompics.com/

https://stocksnap.io/

https://www.canva.com/photos/free/

https://www.lifeofpix.com/

There are a lot more but I think you get the picture!

BeckerArt WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020

LIVE DEMO Online every Saturday morning at 9:30am CST at Facebook and coming soon YouTube Live

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 Transfer Paper

If you have a problem with drawing your photo onto your watercolor paper and you are a student that is looking to do a good drawing, this product is for you so you can trace the photo onto your watercolor paper. This transfer paper gives you the darkest line but this paper isn't graphite paper like many of the other transfer papers are. The only thing different about this paper compared to the graphite paper is that this paper doesn't smear like the others but it also doesn't erase.
Buy it here

Artists of the Week

Jian Wu

I saw Jian's work in the AWS catalog I just received this last week and his work caught my eye as I was looking at the catalog. I then went to his website and was again blown away, very wonderful paintings.

My Saturday Demo

Online Live demonstration paint-a-long
Saturday May 23 at 9:30am CST on Facebook Live

I will be teaching you to paint this Saturday May 23rd at 9:30am CST on Facebook Live and I will be looking into broadcasting this demo live on YouTube at the same time, more info in the coming weeks on that.

Daily Paintings Available

Every day during this pandemic I plan on putting up a daily demo painting on my website that will be for sale HERE. A lot of art instructors and artist are struggling through these stay at home order times because many of our classes, workshops, paint parties, and demonstrations have been canceled, so I am starting to sell the demonstrations that I do in my classes at extremely low prices to help keep some funds coming in to help keep my BeckerArt classroom/studio/gallery open.

All the paintings are original works of art that are
10 x 14" in size and have been done as a demonstration in a classroom or as a live demonstration.

Thanks!

BeckerArt Brushes

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For those wishing to send a donation do it to BeckerArt 3314 Pearl Street, McHenry, IL.60050

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