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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #298, To Good to be True
Can you believe it's February already... how many of you are keeping up with your resolutions, I'll bet that many of you, and myself included failed to keep it going. I wouldn't worry about it, most people slip up before February. I say instead of worrying about it start another resolution each month and by the end of the year, you will have started 12 new things that you can be proud of.
I'm so happy that many of you are enjoying the paint-a-longs on Thursday evenings. Thank you to those of you that have been sending me ideas of what else you would like to learn how to paint.
If you would like to show off your paint-a-long paintings or ask questions I would recommend you sign up for my new Facebook Group.
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 4th 1pm to 3:30pm
Yes to Class at The Studio in McHenry Feb 6th 9:00am to 11:30am
Last week I was browsing some new art supplies and of course, when you browse anything on the web you leave cookies on your computer, phone, or tablet and then you get ads following you to every website you visit thereafter. I then was browsing Facebook and of course, the ads were there also. Those ads are placed on my Facebook feed because of my history of looking and searching for specific art supplies. The problem I have with this is not that they have ads of things I was
looking for but that the ads that are being placed on my Facebook feed and other websites are that many of them are scams and deals on products with prices that are too good to be true, and that's exactly what they are.
I learned my lesson the hard way a couple of years ago when I attempted to buy something from an ad on Facebook. I got scammed and it pissed me off that I didn't pick up on it. This is the reason I picked this subject for this week's newsletter. I want to make sure people are aware of these scam ads and hopefully, nobody falls for these scam ads.
First off, if the price is way too good to be true, trust your instinct and steer clear. The best thing to do when you want to see what an actual price is for an item that is being advertised on Facebook is to go do some research on that item. I usually go to amazon and look up the item and see what the real price for that or a similar item really is. 9 times out of 10 you can find the exact same product for the price that is real and many times if it is a legit ad on Facebook you can get
that product on amazon cheaper. It's too bad that Facebook doesn't somehow have something in place to get rid of these scam ads.
These scammers can easily make their ads and websites look super real because all it takes is to steal images and videos from the real manufactures website and stick it into a fake site. They can even make it look almost exactly like the real legit websites. The best thing to do before you buy anything on the internet is to do research. Nice thing is that the internet is filled with all the info you need to get some great research done.
Below are a few ads I pulled off of Facebook that are total scams. I could have pulled so many of these ads off of Facebook but you get the picture, don't be fooled and tempted by the low prices.
Be a smart shopper and trust your instinct.
David
This easel is probably $2000 dollars new, $30 dollars impossible!
Below is a MacBook Pro for $90 dollars and you can go to the website that looks super professional.... don't be scammed, in a day, week or month a lot of times these websites will be gone.
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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Joy Makon
I took the list of artists that made it into the AWS exhibition this year and started looking at those artists works. This artist was on that list and really liked her work.
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Photo was taken by Timothy Eberly from Unsplash.com
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BECKERART DAILY PAINTINGS
Original Watercolor Paintings
Daily paintings are available for purchase, on sale $150 now $90 dollars, order on my website.
The sales of these original paintings will help me keep my art business going.
Thank you in advance if you purchase one!
Click HERE to buy my original daily painting below or there are 100s of others
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THANK YOU! For any other info please email me at david@davidrbecker.com
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