BeckerArt FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter Sept. 22nd, Break Some Rules

Published: Tue, 09/22/20

Hello

Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #279 Break Some Rules

Hello from back at home in Illinois! what a great 3 weeks it was traveling up to Dillman's followed up by going to the NorthShore of Minnesota to do a wonderful Plein-air event. I highly recommend a plein-air event and learning to paint outdoors

www.pleinairgrandmarais.org

Above you can view the painting that I painted to win the Quick Paint competition at the Grand Marais Plein-air event.

I am back to teach my weekly classes and do my Thursday paint-a-longs. I hope everyone is ready to do some major learning as I have picked up a lot of new things to teach my students while I was up North.

Yes to Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville September 24th from 1pm to 3:30pm

Yes to Class at the BeckerArt Studio in McHenry September 26th From 9am to 11:30

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

Break Some Rules

At a certain point in your artistic career, there will come a time that you have to start breaking the rules when creating works of art. When you first start out as a beginner you are given strict instructions on how to paint with your chosen medium. As you grow into your chosen medium you first learn the fundamentals, that will hopefully stick with you as you get better and better.

There will be a time after you have mastered the fundamentals of painting that you should start experimenting with and start breaking some of the rules of your medium. With watercolor, in the beginning, I was taught never to use white or black when painting in watercolor. Since then I have grown into a watercolorist and I then started breaking the rules and now use the White and the Black colors to enhance and give my watercolors a different kind of look and I feel. My creative process of painting is now getting a whole new style and look, which is something that I think most artists want at a certain point in their artistic career.

As a teacher, I first have to teach the beginner the fundamentals of painting and learning how to use that medium. Then after I feel the students have mastered the fundamentals I tell them to forget the rules and start seeing how they can break the rules and still make the painting work. This makes a student get creative in their painting process.

There should be rules when learning the fundamentals but once students have mastered the fundamentals they then need to do whatever they want to be creative. If you always follow the rules of how you do your painting then it is a bit harder to grow into your own style and you will more then likely start painting the exact style of your instructor and that style is already being used. Grow into your own style instead of trying to copy a style.

With watercolor after you have mastered the fundamentals, try using white or black, and see how it works for you. You can't learn new things if you don't try new things. If you try something you don't like you still learn that you don't like that style and you will continue on to another style.

Go ahead and break some rules once you get your fundamentals of painting down!

David

BeckerArt WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2020

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 CANCELED

WORKSHOP Duluth Art Institute, WC, Duluth, MN. October 22nd, 23rd & 24th INFO HERE

BeckerArt WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2021

WORKSHOP The Villages, WC, Villages, FL. January 11th and 12th INFO HERE

WORKSHOP The Villages, Acrylics, Villages, FL. January 13th and 14th INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Gold Coast Watercolor Society Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Feb. 16th 17th and 18th INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Michigan Water Color Society, Battle Creek, MI. June 1st, 2nd and 3rd INFO HERE

WORKSHOP Dillman's, Lac Du Flambeau, W/C, Wisconsin, June28th - July 1st INFO HERE

Product of the Week

Collapsible Water Containers

Great little buckets for using when plein-air painting or even in your studio.

Artists of the Week

Mary Axelson

One of the plein-air artist of the Grand Marais event. Not many watercolorist that do the plein-air events.

BeckerArt Demo/PAINT-A-LONG will happen again this coming Thursday September 24th at 6:30pm CST

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