David R. Becker

UPDATED 8/11/07








		The Holidays are almost upon us, so this is a good time to contact that artist who's art you like so much, and purchase a painting as a gift for someone or as a gift to yourself. My links page has hundreds of artists, and I'm guessing that they all have artwork they would love to sell you.

Alissa Smith
An up and coming artist whose work you want to purchase now
before she becomes so famous that her prices get out of reach.

To see more of her beautiful work like the one below go to her website http://artistalissa.com

Holbein Paints

I have come to love the Holbein brand of watercolors and there are 2 reasons why.
1. Their colors are so vibrant and make some of the most beautiful greys I've ever mixed.
2. They don't have Ox-Gall, which I have found to be super great because they won't dry up
to form clumps of hard paint rocks in your palette. Holbein stays nice and rubbery & useable.

I can't tell you how many palettes I have with hard clumps of paint that now would take
loads of time to soften and make workable. Paints with Ox-gall were never intended to
be a paint that you store in your palette and use over and over again, it was intended to be used
up each time and new pigment squeeze out for each session. That never happens with most
beginners because they don't want to waste any of that expensive paint they put out,
even if it means they are not getting enough pigment for their wash, which is a
problem when trying to get real rich fresh looking washes.

The solution for artists that use there palette over and over never adding new paint...Use Holbein!

Sorry I won't be teaching at the Art of the Carolina's
But check out all the great teachers they have by clicking logo below

November 9th, 10th and 11th
Art of the Carolinas 2007
at the Hilton North Raleigh, 3415 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609.

Do you want some really personal service when ordering art supplies, Then I would recommend
www.black-horse.com and John E Bates will take care of you.

If you are looking for the supplies I use when instructing students at the workshop Expos, then
go to this art supplier and he has all the supplies I use. He is a small shop with very good prices
and if there is a certain Holbein color you need that's not available, he can run over to Holbein
and pick it up directly from Holbein.

You looking for personal service at guaranteed lowest prices... this is the place....and please tell him David R. Becker sent you.

Two friends of mine just got a website....check them out!

On the left we have the Famous Watercolorist Richmond A Jones
On the right we have the famous pastel artist Christine Osada Jones

What a great husband and wife team! Proud to say they both were students of mine at one time, but
as you can tell they no longer need instruction.

Below are some Chicago city scenes that I just love painting.

I donated my time again this year and did a painting demonstration for the Artworks Childrens Museum
fundraiser dinner and auction. Lucky for me that there was a reporter there that took this picture below
and put it in the local newspaper. Thanks Artworks!

Sorry to say I haven't updated my Ebay listings or Blog or my
Paint-it-forword Site but hope to get to it soon.

Click Here to see what's available!

http://davidrbecker.blogspot.com

Click on logo to find out how your organization can be helped

This is one of the recent Donations made to the New England Old English Sheepdog Rescue

Thank You Watrercolor Magic Magazine for including this article in the June 2005 issue!
Turn to page 47

Becker's Books

Book of the Month

Click on any of these books above to order from Amazon

Thank you International Artist for including my article in your wonderful magazine.

Create your own Pochade Box or Sketch Easel