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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #300, Knowing Your Subject
Time has been flying by so fast that I told my Saturday class that there would be no class this coming Saturday but I guess time isn't going that fast because I just skipped past a whole week. NOTICE: YES there will be a class this coming Saturday in McHenry. My mistake, it's the 27th that I won't be in class. I will instead be teaching in Hibbing MN on the 27th.
Have you joined my Facebook Group yet? If you want to have people help you with your painting then this is a perfect group to join!
For anybody that plans on coming back to my Libertyville weekly class this week please notify me so that I know you are coming Beckerart@gmail.com
Yes to Class at the Civic Center in Libertyville Feb 18th 1pm to 3:30pm
Yes to Class at The Studio in McHenry Feb 20th 9:00am to 11:30am
In my teachings, I talk a lot about what is most important in painting in watercolor, drawing being most important, then composing the value pattern into a good composition, and then I would put knowing your subject matter and painting what you know and love way up there on the list.
At first, a beginner doesn't really have to know their subject matter because they are learning the basics of the medium and basically working with whatever their teachers gives them to paint or the students work on simple images that they feel they can handle.
After you reach a point of knowing how to handle the medium and are no longer a beginner, that would be the time where you have to start painting things that you know and love. Knowing your subject matter and just loving to paint that subject matter helps you so much in developing into a skilled artist.
I love painting boats, water, cities, and people in those scenes. You are probably wondering how does loving and knowing these subject matters really help one become a better artist. The answer is that loving to paint a subject matter gets you to paint more and that is the only way you are gonna get better is to do a lot of it. Knowing your subject matter helps you so much in your drawing of the subject matter and helps you in designing the value pattern which is one and two when it
comes to the importance of learning how to paint. So in a way knowing and loving your subject matter is just as important as learning drawing and value pattern when it comes to becoming a skilled artist.
Get out there and start picking your subject matter based on what you know and love, I guarantee it will help you so much when it comes to advancing as an artist!
Here is to knowing what you love!
David
BeckerArt Live in Person WORKSHOPS and DEMOS of 2021
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
WORKSHOP Thousand Island Arts Center, W/C, Clayton NY Aug 10,11,12 INFO TO COME HERE
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David McEown: Talk about simplifying and lighting and this artist hit a home run!!! love his style.
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