Becky Joy
― Oil
 


City Lights
24" x 36"

March 15, 16, 17, 18, 2010
Members $180
Non-members $225

Four Day Workshop!

Experience Level: All Levels

Minimum: 7
Maximum: 15

Artist's Demonstration: February 26, 2010

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Description

"The students each work at their own pace. I do a couple of demonstrations and explain the process and information as we go.

"The student work from landscape photographs or setup still lifes.

"I make rounds helping each student individually and explain things to the class.

"A critique at the end of the session benefits all the students."

Materials
 

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Supplies
  • Colors: This is a suggested list using "my palette... I am not a stickler for exact colors."
     
    Titanium White Cadmium Red Light Ultramarine Blue
    Cadmium Yellow, light Alizarin Crimson Cerulean Blue
    Lemon Yellow   Sap Green
    Cadmium Red Light
     
      Cobalt Green
     
  • Brushes - various brushes - filberts. 
  • Long palette knife for mixing
  • Stretched canvas, archival canvas board or gessoed hardboard. 16x20 is probably the largest size comfortable in a workshop setting. Plan on at least one canvas per day.
Miscellaneous Materials and equipment
  • Odorless mineral spirits
  • Palette - i.e., a disposable paper palette pad in a Masterson plastic palette
  • A portable easel, since space will be limited
  • Disposable latex gloves (optional)
Instructor

 


Palo Verde Afternoon

 

Becky Joy is best known or her vibrant landscapes that so accurately capture glowing light and shadow. Her paintings burst with abundant colors and powerful, thick textures. Painting in the historic Plein Air style, she accurately creates what she sees and feels in her creative trips to the open air. Viewing her work brings every sense to life, creating an expectation of the kiss of a mountain breeze, the scent of mesquite and sage in an oncoming storm. The taste of salt water on the tongue, or the visual explosion of color in the setting sun’s vast sky. The impulse is to reach out and touch her paintings, to become a part of the scene she has created in oil. True to her desire for painting from life, Becky also paints luscious and colorful still lifes.

Born and raised in Portland, OR, Becky Joy raised her family there. During this time Becky took art classes at the local college and tried several different art forms. After moving to Arizona in 1993, Becky attended classes and workshops at the Scottsdale Artist’s School then began to hike and paint in the desert that surrounds her home. Becky juried into Women Artists of the West in 1997. In the summer of 1998, she was included in a show at the Phippen Museum in Prescott, AZ called Painters of the American Desert. She has been published in Art of the American West and in 2001 was chosen as the cover and poster artist for Hidden in the Hills Artists Directory. Becky was featured in an article in the Feb 2006 issue of Southwest Art Magazine.  She was chosen for the Award of Merit at a Plein Air competition in Escalante, UT in Oct 008.  Three of her works were purchased by the Kierland Resort and Spa. Her paintings have also been collected by American Equity Insurance, Banner Hospital and Pioneer Home Bank. 2003 brought Becky the Southwest Art Magazine Award at the annual Phippen Art Show in Prescott.

Becky is a juried member of the American Academy of Women Artists and the International Guild of Realism. She now teaches workshops and continues to exhibit and have one woman shows of her paintings in galleries and shows in CA, CO, UT, AZ and NM.

Becky Joy is represented by:
     Jane Hamilton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
     Windrush Gallery, Sedona, AZ

     Contact Becky or view Becky Joy's website
     or visit her Blogspot.

 

"I'm sending all of you a link to my new blog. http://www.beckyjoyartist.blogspot.com  I've been posting a painting a day, which are very affordable paintings that I thought I could offer to all of my customers and those interested in my art. Check out the blog on a regular basis and see what's going on with my art."
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