BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter July 14th, So Much Green

Published: Tue, 07/14/20

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #268,

Hello from my BeckerArt Studio in McHenry, Illinois. Always feels great to go away to teach a workshop in faraway places but it also feels good to get back home to my weekly classes too!

Last week's demonstration for the Minnesota Watercolor Society had a glitch in the beginning but went smooth sailing once we got it going. You can see that demo HERE.

This coming Thursday the 16th of July I will be demonstrating again as a paint-a-long and you can find the image I am going to paint below in this newsletter.

Thanks for all those of you that have subscribed to my YouTube Channel. I now have reached the 1000 subscribers mark! Thank You!

I will be heading to the TWSA exhibit next Monday the 20th at the Kenosha Public Museum to see the show... looking to see if anybody would like to join me... No need to contact me just be there at the museum at 10 am, see you there!

While I was away I had done quite a bit of Plein-air painting and one of the biggest things I noticed was that everything is green. In this week's newsletter I talk about green colors.

Yes Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville will be July 16th from 1pm to 3:30pm

Yes Class at the BeckerArt Studio in McHenry July 18th 9am to 11:30am

Email me at Beckerart@gmail.com for any info you may need about my classes.

So Much Green

The last two weeks while I was away I had gotten the chance to do some plein-air painting and the biggest thing I noticed while I was out painting is that there is so much green and it is all the same shade of green. Having the greens all the same in the summer is really had to work with if you keep the greens all the same in your painting.

One of my mentors Robert Wade had given me some great advice about how to use summer greens that are all the same in a painting... make the greens in the distance more of a grey bluish-green and the foreground greens can be the more intense greens. I also like to make the lighter greens more of a yellow-green and I also like to float other colors in the greens to pick up some reflected color.

Just because the greens in a live scene can be all the same colored green doesn't mean you have to paint it exactly in that way, you can practice using your artistic license and change colors to help you make the painting work and look better than the real scene. If the real scene doesn't have something that you think will make it look better, change it to whatever you feel will make it look better.

David

With the Green being all the same on the photo I usually try to make the greens in the painting a little more muted and different in the back compared to the front.

I used a lot of my artistic license in the painting above to try and make it look better then it really was.

A great color combination to use with light green is a very intense Blue and if the green is more of a yellow green then it is good to also use a violet and yellow green combination.

BeckerArt WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020

LIVE DEMOs Online every Thursday at 6:30pm CST on my YouTube Channel 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 CANCELED

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

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Artists of the Week

Katarzyna-Kmiecik

As I was cruising the web looking for artists that paint with a lot of green I came across this artist/illustrator that I thought took green to a whole different level.

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