BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter April 7th, Holbein Earth Tones

Published: Tue, 04/07/20

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #254, Holbein Earth Tones

It's week three and I hope everyone is still doing the artists-in-Residence thing and staying at home.
In the last week, I have painted 7 paintings and it feels so good and the best thing is that it passes the time. I now feel like I have less time then when I was working my teaching jobs. I have also done a bunch of fix-ups and organizing on the house so I guess that has been taking up some of the time too. The only thing I have been going outside for is to go to my empty studio to create and to go out alone and run/exercise. Last Sunday I actually ran the farthest I have ever run in my life, I ran 12 miles just to see if I could do it, I did and it felt like I really accomplished something.

I have also been hard at work, finding ways to save the BeckerArt business/gallery/classroom since all of my teaching jobs, paint parties, and demonstration work vanished or may be coming to a screeching halt until who knows when. Yes, I have been applying to all the funds the state and government are putting out there for small businesses and that many of you have been sending me (thank you) and I also am still working to bring you online classes but all these things take time. Stay tuned as I hope to get some demonstrations happening on Facebook really soon along with a paint-a-long watercolor class and who knows what else will be coming out of this stay at home time.

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

NO CLASSES at the BeckerArt Gallery until further notice.

Holbein Earth Tones or as some call them
BROWNS

If you have ever been in one of my weekly classes you will probably hear me call Browns, Earth Tones and try to convince those brown users that purple is the better cousin color of browns and the best color in the universe. It's been a running gag for at least 10 or more years that I never say the word Brown but instead Earth Tones. It's been so long that I've been saying earth tones that I don't even remember how the gag started. Wait yes I do, it's because when I was in art school and in Irving Shapiro's watercolor class all I ever used was a lot of browns and for many years after classes at the Academy I still used browns. Then when I started to teach I would try to get away from using so many browns in my lessons and I would tell my students that I hate brown so they wouldn't use them as much as I did when I was a student. I would also tell students instead of browns use purples the colorful cousin of brown and because it was my favorite color, and so began the saga of the brown vs purple controversy. Just ask the amazing artist Gary Wigman the leader of the Irving Shapiro brown movement:) All in good fun and yes I do still use many browns, just don't tell anybody.

Purples Rule, Brown's Drool!
Stay Safe
David

BeckerArt Holbein Brown Earth Tone Watercolors

4 of the 7 paintings I have completed in the last week.

WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020

WORKSHOP Lake Superior Watercolor Guild, W/C, Duluth, MN, may be Rescheduled to May 7, 8, 9th

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
Grey Tones Marker Set

Markers like these are great when you do a value sketch and you have to fill in a light, medium or dark value
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Exhibition of the Week

This week instead of bringing you just one artist of the week, I bring you a whole exhibition.
This is the complete 2020 AWS Annual Exhibition scheduled to be shown at the Salmagundi Club in New York April 6-25.

Online Exhibition 2020

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