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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #293, Resolution Help
Wishing you a Happy and safe New Year!!!
Coming up in January I will be back to doing a live workshop at the Villages Art Center in Florida... still a few spots open. Go here for info and to register.
Zoom online classes will probably start happening at the end of January and beginning of February.
Well, I did it again, while trying to mess around with learning how to get my broadcasting app to work with YouTube I totally screwed up the scheduled link of last week's paint-a-long. Little by little I think I'm getting things solved and soon the videos will be uninterrupted. If ever something doesn't work or you can't find my video, go to my website at BeckerArt.net and everything will be there, even if I have to change things 5 minutes before the paint-a-long.
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NO Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville Dec 31st
YES to Class at The Studio in McHenry Jan 2nd 9am to 11:30am
The first of the year is coming quickly and I know a bunch of you will be making resolutions to paint more.
I'm here to tell you that I want to help you to keep that resolution. One of the best ways to paint more and more often is to not make keeping that resolution so hard on yourself. I say paint sketches and make them a lot smaller than the paintings you normally do.
Robert Wade of Australia taught me early on to divide one's watercolor paper into a bunch of smaller sketching areas. Robert would take a half sheet of paper and divide it with artist tape and then do small watercolor studies. See below for an example.
This is such a great exercise for learning how to simplify a value pattern and it's a great way to figure out a color scheme. Robert Wade calls this exercise "Visioneering". He says, "One of the most important aspects of my way of working is how I apply my process of Visioneering. I'm never satisfied with representing a subject just how it is. I want to give my own interpretation of what's there and my reaction to it. In other words, I don't want to
paint how it looks, I want to paint how it FEELS."
you can then use these small sketches to work on bigger paintings of the same scene and everything will already be planned out for you in the sketch.
So my advice to you for working a lot of paintings is to do a smaller sketch each day and maybe once a week try for a larger painting from one of those smaller sketches.
Practice makes perfect, but you have to practice otherwise there is nothing to show that is perfect.
David
This was a great exercise that Robert Wade had taught many of his students, myself included, to learn about doing these sketches to work out all the elements of a painting.
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 POSTPONED TO 2022
WORKSHOP Michigan Water Color Society, Battle Creek, MI. June 1st, 2nd and 3rd POSTPONED TO 2022
WORKSHOP Dillman's, Lac Du Flambeau, W/C, Wisconsin, June28th - July 1st INFO HERE
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