Some helpful beginner tips on pastels that I've learned or were shared in my early days: 1) Work dark to light; 2) Work soft to hard; 3) Never never NEVER spray fix your final painting, it will change the colors! (Unless you're like Silke Shumann and want to. I don't like the color changes myself and I'm careful with my finished pieces. Also, I'm not an expert, nor a professional, I just like the medium a lot and have worked in it for almost 20 years. But if you want to spray fix your pieces then you do you.) 3) You can fill the tooth of the paper so work in light layers and don't futz around too much; 4) Work on medium-dark to dark papers or do an underpainting on lighter papers 6) Try UArt paper (it's basically art-grade, archival sand paper) :-D 7) Work on a near vertical easel so the dust drops down and off the piece 8) Use 2" wide tape to help capture the pastel dust at the bottom of your easel. Lol, I should just make a video of this cause that last one is hard to describe... :-P Also, Mi-Teintes paper has a more textured side and a much smoother side, you were working on the textured side. You'll learn to distinguish between them on sight but in the meantime swatch a color on both sides to see the difference. Great bird, BTW, turned out very nice.
On 3) Simply keep in mind that it will be darker after the fixative is sprayed on and choose your colors accordingly. Having the pastel image preserved with a fixative is a good thing. You can keep it under glass but every time you move or not keep the work in a frame under glass it is at risk and having a beautiful finished work ruined by smudge or due to improper storage dulled because the dust is mixed, is worse than a simple color shift due to a few layers of archival fixative.
@@silkeschumann7261 Ultimately the matter of spray fixing is a personal choice but I have never heard, myself, of a professional pastel artist who spray-fixes their final pieces, tho some use it in their process on under layers and most other amateur pastel artists I know or follow don't either. Pastel is an inherently delicate medium that needs to be handled with care regardless of whether it's fixed or unfixed. I use glassine over unframed pieces (most of my 16x20+ paintings are unframed) and they have suffered no damage in storage. Framing pastels is a whole topic unto itself and there are ways to ensure that no damage comes to the piece and no dust gets on mats, etc. For me there is simply no way to preserve the color and vibrancy of a pastel with a spray fixative. But you do you :)
@@kvr8286 Yes you're right it is personal preference. I just find your "never, never, NEVER" inappropriate since there are some very good archival fixative sprays on the market and they help to keep the pastel piece in pristine condition despite suboptimal handling. Though as I said you need to factor in a predictable color shift with the initial application. You don't drown the piece in fixative. As with everything else in art it is the know how that makes the difference. You are an artist with experience who is well aware about the delicate nature of pastel. Once you sell the piece you pass it on to people who don't know this and even if they do, you can't expect that every one who may handle the work in the future does. Last but not least I know professional artist who use archival fixative with their pastel works. They even publish youTube videos on how to apply fixative to pastel work to keep the color shift to a minimum and the protection sufficient. FYI: ruclips.net/video/1VnBE7Jwm8g/видео.html
@@silkeschumann7261 It's not inappropriate, it's the opinion of a person who dislikes spray fixative for the reason stated. I'm perfectly within my rights to advocate for my preference and you're perfectly within your rights to advocate for yours.
@@kvr8286 You gave advice as "Expert" and as such gave the impression, that a pastel piece is completely destroyed, when it is not if you know what you're doing, see video from a pastel artist. Geez? Rights?! You did exercise your right and met opposition that is the nature of an open comment. Your so strongly voiced opinion lacks substance and is apparently prejudiced. If you hadn't iterated and worse shouted I might have let it stand. But since you got loud, I felt a second opinion was called for.
I know this video isn't recent, but I just found your channel and appreciate your content. I have chronic pain and appreciate your reticence about colored pencils. Those of us with chronic pain (I too have chronic pain and illness) aren't going to love colored pencils as a medium. Honestly they hurt too much to give us the look that paint mediums and pastels give us much easier. Love your channel.
Hello friends! I hope you are having a wonderful start to your week. I had so much fun with this piece and hope that you enjoy it as well. What should we tackle in the final installment of this mini series next time? I was thinking it might be really fun to work with a palette knife (acrylics?), and other suggestions include oil pastels, charcoal, inks, colored pencils, and standard acrylic painting. Let me know what you think!
Airbrushing suddenly popped into my mind for some reason - it was always so intriguing for me, but I'd assume you'd need some specific equipment that probably won't be cheap. Also, how about Digital Painting? Not really my jam personally, I'm more of 'hands on' person when it comes to are, so the digital thing doesn't appeal to me that much, but it's quite popular, and maybe you yourself will find it interesting to explore.
@@palmirafarkash1492 thanks Palmira. Yes both of those options would be very expensive to implement unfortunately, and I'm not interested in either long term so I can't justify the spending. Maybe sometime in the future though!
HELLO AND THANK YOU DENISE FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO OF INFORMATION WITH EVERYONE ABOUT THE SOFT PASTELS STICKS BECAUSE I AM AN INKER ARTIST AND I DECIDED TO TRY A NEW MEDIUM WHICH IS SOFT PASTELS BECAUSE I TRIED HARD PASTEL STICKS BEFORE AND WAS NOT A BIG FAN OF BUT THESE SOFT PASTEL STICKS WORK FOR ME. AND MY STYLE OF INKING SO THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO DENISE
I’m kinda interested in pastels but all my attempts so far were super messy and my desk is white, so cleanup was a nightmare! Maybe one day I’ll give it another go, with the sanded paper, maybe that will help with all the dust! I’m really enjoying this series! I think some mixed media would be nice for the next video. I’m also not patient enough to do colour pencil only pieces, they just take so much time! I do use colour pencil all the time on top of watercolour though. I used to be a lot more purist and wouldn’t mix media, but colour pencils are just great for adding details, especially to create textures in animal furs or for feathers. I think they would go really well with your style!
I was wondering about your certain sensitivity to textures. It's actually really interesting to hear from someone having a similar problem and how it works for them! I personally don't really like handling stuff like pastels and charcoal because the texture of it as well as stuff like certain textured paper forms instantly makes my hands clammy and makes me hyperaware of everything i feel, like a mild, localised sensory overload. I'll see if your mentality will help me when i try out these mediums, since it's been a long time since i've tried them and i've been curious especially about picking up charcoal again. Thank you for sharing this! (Also the art is INSANELY AMAZING OMG)
The drawing/painting was fantastic! I really like it. I have oil and chalk pastels but they don't blend no matter what paper or blending method I use. Watching how yours blend it's like a dream
Oil pastels do not really blend ever, but the chalk pastels should! However, for what it's worth, I noticed a huge chane between my classroom chalk pastels and these lower quality but still artist level soft pastels. The amount of pigment in them is so much more satisfying!
The challenge I have with pastels is how messy they are. The pastel pencils sound so much better, though I don't work with pastels often enough to buy a set. I'm in Canada. I only just noticed sets of pan pastels at a Michael's I go to. I can understand your variety of pastels, and brushes too.
No need to apologize! I always want content creators to do what they like/are interested in/are curious about rather than feel like they've been too forced to comply with their audiences. Your happiness with your own work and experiences are essential to what you put out. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself so much rediscovering this medium. :) On another note, I've never been interested in pastels, but I'm glad you're sharing your thoughts on the medium so that I won't have to try it myself. :D
That was fun! Haven't tried pastels for I'm afraid to say how many years. Still have several sets and now you make me feel like getting them out and try again. Thanks!
Jane Davenport has some sets of pastels that are similar to the pan pastels. They are packaged so they look like eye shadows but they are pan pastels. You can get a variety of colors in one set for a decent price. These are sold at Michael's. Its mostly colors you would use when drawing a face but I used them to draw a Flamingo drawing and they worked pretty good.
I love how soft this medium as a whole is, because I think that'll help me with my lefty tendency to get hand cramps - but then again I never really got into them, because I'm already so so sooo messy when painting or drawing as is, so I never really got soft pastels and basically never use the very limited amount of pastel pencils I got ^^' I plan to do that in the future though and have been eying a set of Koh-I-Noor Gioconda pencils for the past month or so - I just lack the time to actually be creative at the moment -.-
It's funny you mention finding it daunting to fill large areas with colored pencil...I believe some colored pencil artists actually use PanPastels to fill large areas as either an underpainting or for the background, and then go in with details on top. (I imagine you might just need to use a workable fixative between the pastels and pencils? Idk.) You can also use watercolor the same way, or you can blend out large swaths of more loose pencil with Brush and Pencil's powder blender. Might not make you love colored pencil, but it's one way to make the large areas go a lot faster.
Oof, pastels in general just don't speak to me or I've just had a bad time with them, but you make them look really fun and relaxing! Every time I've used pastel I felt like things wouldn't stop lifting and blended wrong, and don't get me started on oil pastel (don't, really, I can't stand them XD). Maybe pastel pencils would work out better since I mostly use pencil crayon anyways, or maybe I'd just be too used to regular pencils and be way too biased XD.
Looks really awesome! 'm using Skillshare to learn watercolor (let me know if you have any recommendations!) and for improving my design skills when it comes to programms like Photoshop (doing the advance course). So cool they reach out a lot to the creative community on RUclips!
Nice job girl! 👍🏽 I love the look of pastels but I can't stand the feel of pastel residue on my fingertips. I hated working on chalkboards at school for the same reason.
I came across you tonight. I am not familiar with that blending tool! I have only used my soft pastels on old book.pages and turned out surprisingly beautiful results. So much yet to learn now. I'm a new subscriber and may need to binge watch other videos . I love water color too. Looking forward to more!
After your mixable oil video, I dug out my few tubes of acrylics and gave them a try. I really am enjoying them. What do you not like about acrylics? I wanted to try out an opaque medium without buying a new setup, so I used what I had on hand. Now I have more paints and a bunch of canvas boards to play with. It's been fun!
Denise I think it's fantastic your doing this series! The last 2 years or so I've been experimenting with new mediums. (I used to use only acrylics for a long time) and found: Colored pencils, oils,inks, pan and oil pastels, watercolors, (how I found your channel a few years ago) it's been an amazing journey and has really helped my artworks develop. I love that your learning and trying new things. I look forward to more videos of your journey
This looked so soothing! I really love using mediums like this - I'm generally very tight when it comes to drawing and art in general, so mediums that force me to loosen up are soooo nice
Omg you made me dig my decade old soft pastels. I once both half-size mungyo softpastels wayyyy~~ back. It was messy to work with all the dust and back then artist paper are not as freely available in my area , it was just a luck that I saw that box lol. One of my oldest fave work is in this medium, it still life of stones and the shells. after that I did not do much with it. Now you made me dig my old supplies and lol the box and pastels is still looks new. Thank you for reminding me of this medium again.
This piece is gorgeous I love the undershot it’s so striking. Birds are so creepy yet beautiful to me 😂, love seeing more of your artwork on the channel!
Wow, what a great video. I've been playing with soft pastels and pan pastels for a few months now, but still having trouble getting the knack of the medium... I think I'm just so used to having a paint brush in hand...love to see u do watercolor pencils or inks. I'd love for u to do a pastel fox or wolf...now that would b amazing with your artistic talent with animals...
OMG how did I miss this, after being subscribed for years! This is wonderful. I am now using watercolours as backgrounds for pastels and am so thrilled to have found your video. I am finding pastels are a wonderful addition to watercolours. Any chance of picking up pastels again? I got the very inexpensive Faber Castell set of 72 half sticks (mid-soft) and the Koh-i-Noor set of 48 extra soft pastels (all for less than 50$) as a beginner and am having blast with them. I use watercolours for the background, paint a layer of Liquitex clear gesso and then I go to town with the pastels. Super fun!!! You did a great just b with this ne. I hope youtry again soon! Love your animal portraits!
*Stares at unused soft pastels* Oke Denise, maybe I should start using them xD Im just a bit... öhm... intrigued by them still. Your picture turned out beautifull!
Pastels are a really fun medium once you get used to the feeling of them. They are a bit messy but the right paper can help! I love to use clairefontaine pastelmat paper, with this paper I get way lesser of a mess! For the next medium you could feature, maybe you could try a full realistic piece like this one in watercolor pencils. It's still sort of watercolor but works quite different. For me, they were the bridge between the colored pencils where I started out with and watercolors.
Great video Denise 😙 I started using soft pastel last year. And I quite like them. They are easier to work with, then what I thought . Often you just have to do it. 😉
I bought a set of soft pastels a few months ago but have not tried them yet, I definitely will now! They look like a lot of fun and this turned out wonderfully 😊😊 Denise I would love to you experiment with charcoal 😊 Thank you for doing this series! It's been great
Hi! I love how this turned out! I know pastels on the whole can be messy but the results you can get with them are so worth it! I love that you can cover large areas quickly with the pan pastels but also work in fine details with the pencils afterwards to achieve some really fun, vibrant and realistic results! Looking forward to the next video 😊😍
I wish I could work with these pastels, but I have tactile issues like you and just watching this video almost made me nauseous, lol - I still had to finish, because I like your style so much and the process was educating. It bums me out that I can't do pastels because there are things about them that tell me that if it wasn't for the tactile stuff, they would be an amazing match for me. Thanks for these amazing videos! I have yet to watch a video from you that didn't give me one or more good take-aways to help me improve.
Wow! This takes me back to elementary school days, I remember hating the days when we would use pastels because I was a very picky kid and hated getting messy(especially with the kids who went hog wild and made a mess everywhere ) but now that I am older with more patience and curiosity to try new mediums I may want to try these again! I just recently tried acrylic pouring and loved it so maybe the mess won’t bother me as much.Awesome artwork!
Pastels is such a great medium, I love oil pastels for quick work, soft pastels can be so satisfying to work with but I would stay away from the pastel pencils if you’re a beginner they can really turn you off, also aim for a good quality soft pastel because it makes all the difference in how you experience the medium. Love how your bird turned out, so vibrant.
I definitely noticed a big different just between these relatively cheap soft pastels and the chalk pastels I used to use in the classroom. They're so much more pleasant!
Pastels became one of my favorite dry mediums to work with after trying them out in college way back when. I absolutely agree with you that being able to cover larger areas is so much more freeing compared to using pencils (which are still among my favorites to use, just not for full pieces) Truth be told this is the first time I've seen someone apply them using applicators specifically for pastels. In our classes we actually found using paint brushes was a pretty good way to spread and blend the pigments around. I'll be looking into those applicators when I feel like going back to pastels ^^
Beautiful piece you came up with, ,bravo. I'd love to see charcoal for your last let's learn. I've found the gradation of blacks and grays so beautiful.
I'm struggling so hard to find my medium. I did some acrylic paintings, but even though people said they came out great, I didn't like using paint. I also did some graphite drawings and they came out great, but I really need color in my life. Next I tried colored pencils and was happy to have color in my life. This was recently, and I haven't done many, and haven't been brave enough yet to try doing portraits with colored pencils. But the thing about colored pencils is that they seemed to actually take longer than graphite, so even though I was happy to have color in my life, I got tired of how extremely long it takes to do a drawing (I like working on big paper, 14x17). Not only that but I think that using color on portraits means that I should understand a little about color theory. Creating shadows with color is a lot different than using graphite. Color theory aside, I really really really wanted to like pastels because it looks like it goes so much faster. But I don't think I'd like not being able to get the finest of details. I don't like chalky mess and I don't like the way they feel. But mostly I don't think I can do art that is suggestive rather than detailed. So I don't know what to do. Drawing details takes a lot of time and study and I need to break it up a little by doing some art that is more free flowing and quicker. So far that reason I wish maybe I could learn how to do art like this that isn't detailed. I'm about to get some pan pastels, and see if I can use them for a background on a color pencil portrait I'm about to start. I'm stepping up paper size to a whopping 18x24, and I feel like if I have to color all that background in using color pencils, I will scream. Maybe I need to get some pastels and just try to do art that is less detailed so I can have quick fun things to do to break up the monotony of doing fine detail drawings. I wish I had someone here in person who could work with me and teach me.
I want to use my old pastel again ! Thanks for this great video Denise. For the next one have you ever considered trying out wax/encaustic ? I'm so curious about that !
Great job! I love the part where you begin adding in the feathers, it definitely has a soft painterly look to it :) I personally have a hard time with chalk pastels in general, though admittedly I've never tried the pans. The scratchy feeling/sound of running the pencils or sticks across rough paper sets my teeth on edge (this includes charcoal as well). It's funny how certain sensations can make one person cringe, while another can find it calming. I keep trying charcoal and telling myself to get over it, but it's rough (pun? lol). I actually love colored pencils, my only frustration with them is that I like the color to be really saturated, but I like very smooth lines with no texture, and that combination can be hard to achieve with either soft or hard leaded pencils. Oh, but I completely agree about acrylics... I don't enjoy using them at all. There's something kind of unromantic to me about painting with plastic, and though I know there are artists who do amazing things with acrylics, I just can't enjoy the process in the same way I do watercolors or gouache. Aesthetics aside, there's something nice about being able to just wipe off your palette with a wet paper towel :) Anyway, though I'm probably never going to try pastels again, it's nice to know more about them so that I can appreciate the process. Thank you for the video!
I don’t think this medium is for me, but I really like the look of it in other people’s work! Have you considered oil pastels? Or is that too close to soft pastels? Regardless of the medium, I’m looking forward to the next video :)
While I love this video, watching you rub it in with your fingers gives me a physical 'nails on a chalkboard' shiver..... That is the one reason I have never attempted pastels yet.... the feel of chalk just.... *shudders* They look so pretty and soft and amazing when done right though!
I want to shout from the roof tops that drawing with pastels is *nothing* like chalkboard chalk. It makes me so sad to see so many people scared off of the medium because of that comparision. Rubbing these into paper are soooo smooth. If there was sound in the video, it would sound like my finger sliding more smoothly across the paper than if it was bare. I don't mean this in a negative way toward your comment specifically, there's just SO many people saying that they hate the texture when they're not the same experience :(
@@InLiquidColor No, no! I do not think that is a remotely negative comment at all. We all get these pre-concieved ideas of things... and especially when these are linked to a negative feeling they are often hard to get past. Tried the oil pastels years ago and they were not my 'thing'. I keep looking at the Faber-Castell 48 'half' soft pastels... I just need to convince myself to give it a go lol
@@ishtarduzzie I mean certainly don't spend more ey on something if it's not calling to you, but if you WANT to try working with them, try not to let chalk pastels much up your thoughts on soft pastels, and don't get the super skinny compressed kind. Those are the cringy kind haha. Im not a fan of oil pastels either, though it's pretty cool if you combine them with watercolor as resists!
@@InLiquidColor I think if I try them it will have to be a beach scene like Cindy Lane's ones.... It is just... so fitting for us coastal Aussies XD Which would probably be easier with individual colours *muses* Thank you for your replies. If I risk it all I will tag you on Instagram if you like lol
I'm glad you chose the soft pastels...I just recently picked up a small set of sennelier pastels that I'm really excited to try...I wanted to embrace the mess haha
What about the brush markers like the real ones with the water color inside it would be neat to see you use those, kind of a combination of markers and watercolors?!
I enjoyed seeing you use the pan pastels, which I've never tried. Having worked with hard and soft pastels, as well as pastel pencils, I don't like the dust and mess. Life is short, so why spend any extra time cleaning up? It would be fun to see you explore inks, both water-soluable and permanent.
It's not really an exploring new mediums thing, but I'd be interested to know if you fixed the piece with a spray or something afterwards! Pastels are a bit daunting for me, partially because I'm clumsy, and partially because...fixative...not fun.
Love this, I might try, what about showing the water soluable crayons such as the Neocolor ll by Caran d ache? I would love to see what you think of them?
Like the Bird!!!!!! Happy New Year! just found your channel, I felt like you were describing myself. Do You do oil pastels, I got the mungyo gallery artist soft oil pastels for christmas as well as the soft ones you used. Please do more pastels any kind just lots more. I also like how you explain things. Thank you for doing this tutorial.
one would never know this medium is new to you, gorgeous. That paper really makes a huge difference in picking up and keeping the pigment on the page, do you use a fixative?
I really want to try out pastels..... but the heebee jeebee's I got from watching this everytime the pastels rubbed against the paper and especially when you used your fingers.... was... just... super intense and made it hard to watch. But imma stick with it. I'm still on the peach part, so wish me luck. Does anyone else have the same issue? I can't stand using chalk or touching flour, the texture just really bothers me. But I still bake and I still use chalk pastels with my polymer clay, so I think there's hope for me yet.... I hope!!
I am currently obsessed with this medium and you should check out "Alain Picard" here on RUclips. He does this alcohol under-painting with the pastels that is AMAZING! i believe I am going to be creating new work in this medium as soon as I decide on a soft pastel brand or brands! It seems no one uses just one! He truly "Paints" with pastels and I can not recommend him enough!
Love soft pastels, but the messiness and possible health implication scare me off a bit, why not try oil pastels? I've been curious about them for awhile but never really tried (besides 2-3 individual sticks i bought) I like that there is no dust and fixative is not required (I think) Love the channel.
That is true, though you could wear a mask if the dust is concerning! I've never gravitated towards oil pastel on their own, but I used to teach oil pastel and watercolor lessons in my classrooms and loved that! It may be worth looking into :)
Thanks. True there are precautions you can take to minimize health concerns but I guess I like to not worry about that kind of stuff, guess I've been spoiled by watercolor and graphite. Plus I like to have a cup of coffee/tea next to my work area and so much dust nearby/on hands would make me think twice about that. Although I love the look of soft pastels, practically speaking I think oil pastel is probably better for me
I'm sorry to hear Susan! I know they're "working" on PayPal as an option. I thought someone mentioned in Europe that it was an option now, but I could be mistaken.
one thing no one ever talks about is how horrible acr,lic paints are for the ground water. Acrylic is pigment suspened in plastic. The left over paint water goes down the drain putting microplastic into the sewer system. Most microplastic never gets filtered out. I think that even oilpaint used with natural turpentine is less harsh on the environment than acrylic paint. And now there is watersoluable oil paint. The oil ist natural linseed oil..I have avoided acrylic because of that alone so far. and the only bottle I ever tried I did not enjoy and ended up giving it a school.
Pastels are #1 and watercolor #2. Color pencils take too long, oils have too much cleanup and take long to dry, acrylic just looks amateurish unless you’re extremely skilled at it.
The pastel painting were great, btw. Probably not a medium I'm going to invest in, but it's always a pleasure to see someone else enjoy creating. And oooooh, the tape pull at the end!
DID YOU SENSE MY NEED AND URGENCY FOR A VIDEO ABOUT PASTELS?!
Keep going. You got this. You bring out the best things about pastels.
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Some helpful beginner tips on pastels that I've learned or were shared in my early days:
1) Work dark to light;
2) Work soft to hard;
3) Never never NEVER spray fix your final painting, it will change the colors! (Unless you're like Silke Shumann and want to. I don't like the color changes myself and I'm careful with my finished pieces. Also, I'm not an expert, nor a professional, I just like the medium a lot and have worked in it for almost 20 years. But if you want to spray fix your pieces then you do you.)
3) You can fill the tooth of the paper so work in light layers and don't futz around too much;
4) Work on medium-dark to dark papers or do an underpainting on lighter papers
6) Try UArt paper (it's basically art-grade, archival sand paper) :-D
7) Work on a near vertical easel so the dust drops down and off the piece
8) Use 2" wide tape to help capture the pastel dust at the bottom of your easel.
Lol, I should just make a video of this cause that last one is hard to describe... :-P
Also, Mi-Teintes paper has a more textured side and a much smoother side, you were working on the textured side. You'll learn to distinguish between them on sight but in the meantime swatch a color on both sides to see the difference.
Great bird, BTW, turned out very nice.
On 3) Simply keep in mind that it will be darker after the fixative is sprayed on and choose your colors accordingly. Having the pastel image preserved with a fixative is a good thing. You can keep it under glass but every time you move or not keep the work in a frame under glass it is at risk and having a beautiful finished work ruined by smudge or due to improper storage dulled because the dust is mixed, is worse than a simple color shift due to a few layers of archival fixative.
@@silkeschumann7261 Ultimately the matter of spray fixing is a personal choice but I have never heard, myself, of a professional pastel artist who spray-fixes their final pieces, tho some use it in their process on under layers and most other amateur pastel artists I know or follow don't either.
Pastel is an inherently delicate medium that needs to be handled with care regardless of whether it's fixed or unfixed. I use glassine over unframed pieces (most of my 16x20+ paintings are unframed) and they have suffered no damage in storage. Framing pastels is a whole topic unto itself and there are ways to ensure that no damage comes to the piece and no dust gets on mats, etc.
For me there is simply no way to preserve the color and vibrancy of a pastel with a spray fixative. But you do you :)
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Yes you're right it is personal preference. I just find your "never, never, NEVER" inappropriate since there are some very good archival fixative sprays on the market and they help to keep the pastel piece in pristine condition despite suboptimal handling. Though as I said you need to factor in a predictable color shift with the initial application. You don't drown the piece in fixative. As with everything else in art it is the know how that makes the difference.
You are an artist with experience who is well aware about the delicate nature of pastel. Once you sell the piece you pass it on to people who don't know this and even if they do, you can't expect that every one who may handle the work in the future does.
Last but not least I know professional artist who use archival fixative with their pastel works. They even publish youTube videos on how to apply fixative to pastel work to keep the color shift to a minimum and the protection sufficient.
FYI: ruclips.net/video/1VnBE7Jwm8g/видео.html
@@silkeschumann7261 It's not inappropriate, it's the opinion of a person who dislikes spray fixative for the reason stated. I'm perfectly within my rights to advocate for my preference and you're perfectly within your rights to advocate for yours.
@@kvr8286 You gave advice as "Expert" and as such gave the impression, that a pastel piece is completely destroyed, when it is not if you know what you're doing, see video from a pastel artist. Geez? Rights?! You did exercise your right and met opposition that is the nature of an open comment. Your so strongly voiced opinion lacks substance and is apparently prejudiced. If you hadn't iterated and worse shouted I might have let it stand. But since you got loud, I felt a second opinion was called for.
I know this video isn't recent, but I just found your channel and appreciate your content. I have chronic pain and appreciate your reticence about colored pencils. Those of us with chronic pain (I too have chronic pain and illness) aren't going to love colored pencils as a medium. Honestly they hurt too much to give us the look that paint mediums and pastels give us much easier. Love your channel.
Hello friends! I hope you are having a wonderful start to your week. I had so much fun with this piece and hope that you enjoy it as well. What should we tackle in the final installment of this mini series next time? I was thinking it might be really fun to work with a palette knife (acrylics?), and other suggestions include oil pastels, charcoal, inks, colored pencils, and standard acrylic painting. Let me know what you think!
Airbrushing suddenly popped into my mind for some reason - it was always so intriguing for me, but I'd assume you'd need some specific equipment that probably won't be cheap. Also, how about Digital Painting? Not really my jam personally, I'm more of 'hands on' person when it comes to are, so the digital thing doesn't appeal to me that much, but it's quite popular, and maybe you yourself will find it interesting to explore.
@@palmirafarkash1492 thanks Palmira. Yes both of those options would be very expensive to implement unfortunately, and I'm not interested in either long term so I can't justify the spending. Maybe sometime in the future though!
I think inks would be really cool because I alwats wondered how thry handled differently to watercolors.
Mixed media and do it all! Have you tried any printmaking? Things like monoprints with acrylic or using a gelli plate- something painterly and loose!
Personally I'd like to see acrylic painting with a palette knife :3
Pastels have been my main choice of medium over the years, and recently I’ve really taken watercolor seriously. The pastels oh my go to
I remember really hating stick soft pastels so it's fascinating seeing how easy looking application of pan pastels is.
I love using pan pastels. I find them easy to use and they are beautiful and easy to use.
Pastels look like so much fun! I would love to try them out!
Thanks for getting messy so we didn't have to! Can u imagine all the paw prints all over my desk?? 😂
Oh. my. goodness. It would be chaos!
HELLO AND THANK YOU DENISE FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO OF INFORMATION WITH EVERYONE ABOUT THE SOFT PASTELS STICKS BECAUSE I AM AN INKER ARTIST AND I DECIDED TO TRY A NEW MEDIUM WHICH IS SOFT PASTELS BECAUSE I TRIED HARD PASTEL STICKS BEFORE AND WAS NOT A BIG FAN OF BUT THESE SOFT PASTEL STICKS WORK FOR ME. AND MY STYLE OF INKING SO THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO DENISE
I’m kinda interested in pastels but all my attempts so far were super messy and my desk is white, so cleanup was a nightmare! Maybe one day I’ll give it another go, with the sanded paper, maybe that will help with all the dust!
I’m really enjoying this series! I think some mixed media would be nice for the next video. I’m also not patient enough to do colour pencil only pieces, they just take so much time! I do use colour pencil all the time on top of watercolour though. I used to be a lot more purist and wouldn’t mix media, but colour pencils are just great for adding details, especially to create textures in animal furs or for feathers. I think they would go really well with your style!
I was wondering about your certain sensitivity to textures. It's actually really interesting to hear from someone having a similar problem and how it works for them! I personally don't really like handling stuff like pastels and charcoal because the texture of it as well as stuff like certain textured paper forms instantly makes my hands clammy and makes me hyperaware of everything i feel, like a mild, localised sensory overload. I'll see if your mentality will help me when i try out these mediums, since it's been a long time since i've tried them and i've been curious especially about picking up charcoal again. Thank you for sharing this! (Also the art is INSANELY AMAZING OMG)
I have the same texture thing with soft pastels as with ceramics…I’m impressed with the feathers
The drawing/painting was fantastic! I really like it.
I have oil and chalk pastels but they don't blend no matter what paper or blending method I use. Watching how yours blend it's like a dream
Oil pastels do not really blend ever, but the chalk pastels should! However, for what it's worth, I noticed a huge chane between my classroom chalk pastels and these lower quality but still artist level soft pastels. The amount of pigment in them is so much more satisfying!
@@InLiquidColor Yeah, mine dont even say which brand they are so I shouldn't expect much lol
The challenge I have with pastels is how messy they are. The pastel pencils sound so much better, though I don't work with pastels often enough to buy a set. I'm in Canada. I only just noticed sets of pan pastels at a Michael's I go to.
I can understand your variety of pastels, and brushes too.
No need to apologize! I always want content creators to do what they like/are interested in/are curious about rather than feel like they've been too forced to comply with their audiences. Your happiness with your own work and experiences are essential to what you put out. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself so much rediscovering this medium. :)
On another note, I've never been interested in pastels, but I'm glad you're sharing your thoughts on the medium so that I won't have to try it myself. :D
Thank you so much for your encouragement!
That was fun! Haven't tried pastels for I'm afraid to say how many years. Still have several sets and now you make me feel like getting them out and try again. Thanks!
That looks like a majestic bird. Thank you for sharing a beautiful animal in a distinctive pose.
Jane Davenport has some sets of pastels that are similar to the pan pastels. They are packaged so they look like eye shadows but they are pan pastels. You can get a variety of colors in one set for a decent price. These are sold at Michael's. Its mostly colors you would use when drawing a face but I used them to draw a Flamingo drawing and they worked pretty good.
Very beautiful!
Thanks for doing this. I hope you do more pastels.
I love how soft this medium as a whole is, because I think that'll help me with my lefty tendency to get hand cramps - but then again I never really got into them, because I'm already so so sooo messy when painting or drawing as is, so I never really got soft pastels and basically never use the very limited amount of pastel pencils I got ^^' I plan to do that in the future though and have been eying a set of Koh-I-Noor Gioconda pencils for the past month or so - I just lack the time to actually be creative at the moment -.-
It's funny you mention finding it daunting to fill large areas with colored pencil...I believe some colored pencil artists actually use PanPastels to fill large areas as either an underpainting or for the background, and then go in with details on top. (I imagine you might just need to use a workable fixative between the pastels and pencils? Idk.) You can also use watercolor the same way, or you can blend out large swaths of more loose pencil with Brush and Pencil's powder blender. Might not make you love colored pencil, but it's one way to make the large areas go a lot faster.
I love pastels. Messy as they can be. I have learned the square sticks tend to be harder than the round sticks. Love the look of pastel works.
Thank you, I liked this video. Maybe I'll break out my mostly unused beautiful pastels and get back into art.
Oof, pastels in general just don't speak to me or I've just had a bad time with them, but you make them look really fun and relaxing! Every time I've used pastel I felt like things wouldn't stop lifting and blended wrong, and don't get me started on oil pastel (don't, really, I can't stand them XD). Maybe pastel pencils would work out better since I mostly use pencil crayon anyways, or maybe I'd just be too used to regular pencils and be way too biased XD.
Looks really awesome! 'm using Skillshare to learn watercolor (let me know if you have any recommendations!) and for improving my design skills when it comes to programms like Photoshop (doing the advance course). So cool they reach out a lot to the creative community on RUclips!
I love soft pastels too. And your birdie has come out so well.
Have you tried using derwent inktense ?
Nice work Denise 😍
Nice job girl! 👍🏽 I love the look of pastels but I can't stand the feel of pastel residue on my fingertips. I hated working on chalkboards at school for the same reason.
For what it's worth, the artist grade supplies don't feel anything like chalk board chalk or even classroom chalk pastels :)
I came across you tonight. I am not familiar with that blending tool! I have only used my soft pastels on old book.pages and turned out surprisingly beautiful results. So much yet to learn now. I'm a new subscriber and may need to binge watch other videos . I love water color too. Looking forward to more!
Thank you for showing 🙏🏻
I very much enjoyed watching you work with pastels and I love to see more. So the occasional pastel would be much appreciated by me.
If you haven’t heard of Marla Baggetta, check her out .. incredibly beautiful pastel work ... :-)) I love watching her create her pieces..
I really loved to see you work with the pastels, it motivates me a lot! Fantastic bird!
I've never been interested in pastels until now! Thanks!! Loved the painting ❤️❤️
I love how vibrant they are! Have you ever used water-soluble graphite?
I have... and just got some new ones for Christmas :D
Yay!!! 😁
After your mixable oil video, I dug out my few tubes of acrylics and gave them a try. I really am enjoying them. What do you not like about acrylics? I wanted to try out an opaque medium without buying a new setup, so I used what I had on hand. Now I have more paints and a bunch of canvas boards to play with. It's been fun!
I'm too rough with my brushes in that medium and end up ruining them. It's also hard to blend and color match.
I love that drawing it’s so cute the expression on the cute birds faces 😊 I’m thinking of getting pastel pencils
Denise I think it's fantastic your doing this series! The last 2 years or so I've been experimenting with new mediums. (I used to use only acrylics for a long time) and found: Colored pencils, oils,inks, pan and oil pastels, watercolors, (how I found your channel a few years ago) it's been an amazing journey and has really helped my artworks develop. I love that your learning and trying new things. I look forward to more videos of your journey
Thanks so much for the encouragement, and I'm so glad to hear you've been experimenting as well! There's a lot of fun out there to be had :)
This looked so soothing! I really love using mediums like this - I'm generally very tight when it comes to drawing and art in general, so mediums that force me to loosen up are soooo nice
Omg you made me dig my decade old soft pastels. I once both half-size mungyo softpastels wayyyy~~ back. It was messy to work with all the dust and back then artist paper are not as freely available in my area , it was just a luck that I saw that box lol. One of my oldest fave work is in this medium, it still life of stones and the shells. after that I did not do much with it. Now you made me dig my old supplies and lol the box and pastels is still looks new. Thank you for reminding me of this medium again.
Yay I hope you have fun with them!
This piece is gorgeous I love the undershot it’s so striking. Birds are so creepy yet beautiful to me 😂, love seeing more of your artwork on the channel!
Thanks so much!
Wow, what a great video. I've been playing with soft pastels and pan pastels for a few months now, but still having trouble getting the knack of the medium... I think I'm just so used to having a paint brush in hand...love to see u do watercolor pencils or inks. I'd love for u to do a pastel fox or wolf...now that would b amazing with your artistic talent with animals...
OMG how did I miss this, after being subscribed for years! This is wonderful. I am now using watercolours as backgrounds for pastels and am so thrilled to have found your video. I am finding pastels are a wonderful addition to watercolours. Any chance of picking up pastels again? I got the very inexpensive Faber Castell set of 72 half sticks (mid-soft) and the Koh-i-Noor set of 48 extra soft pastels (all for less than 50$) as a beginner and am having blast with them. I use watercolours for the background, paint a layer of Liquitex clear gesso and then I go to town with the pastels. Super fun!!! You did a great just b with this ne. I hope youtry again soon! Love your animal portraits!
*Stares at unused soft pastels*
Oke Denise, maybe I should start using them xD
Im just a bit... öhm... intrigued by them still.
Your picture turned out beautifull!
Pastels are a really fun medium once you get used to the feeling of them. They are a bit messy but the right paper can help! I love to use clairefontaine pastelmat paper, with this paper I get way lesser of a mess! For the next medium you could feature, maybe you could try a full realistic piece like this one in watercolor pencils. It's still sort of watercolor but works quite different. For me, they were the bridge between the colored pencils where I started out with and watercolors.
Great video Denise 😙
I started using soft pastel last year. And I quite like them. They are easier to work with, then what I thought . Often you just have to do it. 😉
I bought a set of soft pastels a few months ago but have not tried them yet, I definitely will now! They look like a lot of fun and this turned out wonderfully 😊😊
Denise I would love to you experiment with charcoal 😊
Thank you for doing this series! It's been great
Thanks so much Amanda and I hope your experience with them is great too. I would LOVE to do an episode on charcoal! :D
Hi! I love how this turned out! I know pastels on the whole can be messy but the results you can get with them are so worth it! I love that you can cover large areas quickly with the pan pastels but also work in fine details with the pencils afterwards to achieve some really fun, vibrant and realistic results! Looking forward to the next video 😊😍
I wish I could work with these pastels, but I have tactile issues like you and just watching this video almost made me nauseous, lol - I still had to finish, because I like your style so much and the process was educating.
It bums me out that I can't do pastels because there are things about them that tell me that if it wasn't for the tactile stuff, they would be an amazing match for me.
Thanks for these amazing videos!
I have yet to watch a video from you that didn't give me one or more good take-aways to help me improve.
Wow! This takes me back to elementary school days, I remember hating the days when we would use pastels because I was a very picky kid and hated getting messy(especially with the kids who went hog wild and made a mess everywhere ) but now that I am older with more patience and curiosity to try new mediums I may want to try these again! I just recently tried acrylic pouring and loved it so maybe the mess won’t bother me as much.Awesome artwork!
I hope you'll give it a shot! I will say doing this in my own home was 10/10 compared to a busy classroom! :D
Pastels is such a great medium, I love oil pastels for quick work, soft pastels can be so satisfying to work with but I would stay away from the pastel pencils if you’re a beginner they can really turn you off, also aim for a good quality soft pastel because it makes all the difference in how you experience the medium. Love how your bird turned out, so vibrant.
I definitely noticed a big different just between these relatively cheap soft pastels and the chalk pastels I used to use in the classroom. They're so much more pleasant!
If you like pastels try using them on velour board. It's a huge difference and just wonderful. Try it some time.👍
Pastels became one of my favorite dry mediums to work with after trying them out in college way back when. I absolutely agree with you that being able to cover larger areas is so much more freeing compared to using pencils (which are still among my favorites to use, just not for full pieces) Truth be told this is the first time I've seen someone apply them using applicators specifically for pastels. In our classes we actually found using paint brushes was a pretty good way to spread and blend the pigments around. I'll be looking into those applicators when I feel like going back to pastels ^^
Have you tried watercolor pencils?
Yep. They're just not for me. I love big loose flowy washes, so I don't have a use for them over the traditional form :)
Well... Now I want to try pastels! Thank you, Denise, for the inspiration...this piece is just lovely 😊💗
Thanks Pam! Still a fav of mine! :D
Beautiful piece you came up with, ,bravo. I'd love to see charcoal for your last let's learn. I've found the gradation of blacks and grays so beautiful.
I really love the Pan Pastels. They have gold, bronze, and silver now that I’m about to order
Thank you for this video!!! I got a box of pastels as a Christmas gift and had no idea what to do!!
I'm struggling so hard to find my medium. I did some acrylic paintings, but even though people said they came out great, I didn't like using paint. I also did some graphite drawings and they came out great, but I really need color in my life.
Next I tried colored pencils and was happy to have color in my life. This was recently, and I haven't done many, and haven't been brave enough yet to try doing portraits with colored pencils.
But the thing about colored pencils is that they seemed to actually take longer than graphite, so even though I was happy to have color in my life, I got tired of how extremely long it takes to do a drawing (I like working on big paper, 14x17).
Not only that but I think that using color on portraits means that I should understand a little about color theory. Creating shadows with color is a lot different than using graphite.
Color theory aside, I really really really wanted to like pastels because it looks like it goes so much faster. But I don't think I'd like not being able to get the finest of details. I don't like chalky mess and I don't like the way they feel. But mostly I don't think I can do art that is suggestive rather than detailed.
So I don't know what to do. Drawing details takes a lot of time and study and I need to break it up a little by doing some art that is more free flowing and quicker. So far that reason I wish maybe I could learn how to do art like this that isn't detailed.
I'm about to get some pan pastels, and see if I can use them for a background on a color pencil portrait I'm about to start. I'm stepping up paper size to a whopping 18x24, and I feel like if I have to color all that background in using color pencils, I will scream.
Maybe I need to get some pastels and just try to do art that is less detailed so I can have quick fun things to do to break up the monotony of doing fine detail drawings. I wish I had someone here in person who could work with me and teach me.
I hope you're able to find your groove! It can be so difficult to settle into a comfy rhythm with our supplies.
I want to use my old pastel again ! Thanks for this great video Denise. For the next one have you ever considered trying out wax/encaustic ? I'm so curious about that !
Great job! I love the part where you begin adding in the feathers, it definitely has a soft painterly look to it :) I personally have a hard time with chalk pastels in general, though admittedly I've never tried the pans. The scratchy feeling/sound of running the pencils or sticks across rough paper sets my teeth on edge (this includes charcoal as well). It's funny how certain sensations can make one person cringe, while another can find it calming. I keep trying charcoal and telling myself to get over it, but it's rough (pun? lol). I actually love colored pencils, my only frustration with them is that I like the color to be really saturated, but I like very smooth lines with no texture, and that combination can be hard to achieve with either soft or hard leaded pencils. Oh, but I completely agree about acrylics... I don't enjoy using them at all. There's something kind of unromantic to me about painting with plastic, and though I know there are artists who do amazing things with acrylics, I just can't enjoy the process in the same way I do watercolors or gouache. Aesthetics aside, there's something nice about being able to just wipe off your palette with a wet paper towel :) Anyway, though I'm probably never going to try pastels again, it's nice to know more about them so that I can appreciate the process. Thank you for the video!
I don’t think this medium is for me, but I really like the look of it in other people’s work! Have you considered oil pastels? Or is that too close to soft pastels? Regardless of the medium, I’m looking forward to the next video :)
Wow! This came out beautifully! I would really love to use soft pastels so I'll definitely give a look to that Skillshare class. Thanks for sharing 😊
While I love this video, watching you rub it in with your fingers gives me a physical 'nails on a chalkboard' shiver..... That is the one reason I have never attempted pastels yet.... the feel of chalk just.... *shudders*
They look so pretty and soft and amazing when done right though!
I want to shout from the roof tops that drawing with pastels is *nothing* like chalkboard chalk. It makes me so sad to see so many people scared off of the medium because of that comparision. Rubbing these into paper are soooo smooth. If there was sound in the video, it would sound like my finger sliding more smoothly across the paper than if it was bare. I don't mean this in a negative way toward your comment specifically, there's just SO many people saying that they hate the texture when they're not the same experience :(
@@InLiquidColor No, no! I do not think that is a remotely negative comment at all.
We all get these pre-concieved ideas of things... and especially when these are linked to a negative feeling they are often hard to get past.
Tried the oil pastels years ago and they were not my 'thing'. I keep looking at the Faber-Castell 48 'half' soft pastels... I just need to convince myself to give it a go lol
@@ishtarduzzie I mean certainly don't spend more ey on something if it's not calling to you, but if you WANT to try working with them, try not to let chalk pastels much up your thoughts on soft pastels, and don't get the super skinny compressed kind. Those are the cringy kind haha.
Im not a fan of oil pastels either, though it's pretty cool if you combine them with watercolor as resists!
@@InLiquidColor I think if I try them it will have to be a beach scene like Cindy Lane's ones.... It is just... so fitting for us coastal Aussies XD
Which would probably be easier with individual colours *muses*
Thank you for your replies. If I risk it all I will tag you on Instagram if you like lol
Would you do a video using Derwent inktense please? I loved watching you create the bird, it looks fabulous
I'm glad you chose the soft pastels...I just recently picked up a small set of sennelier pastels that I'm really excited to try...I wanted to embrace the mess haha
You could always take all of the new skills you've learned in your let's learn series and do a big mixed media piece.
That sounds terrifying haha
LoL 😂 that's what I was thinking!!! Would make for a funny video!!!!😜😂
What about the brush markers like the real ones with the water color inside it would be neat to see you use those, kind of a combination of markers and watercolors?!
I enjoyed seeing you use the pan pastels, which I've never tried. Having worked with hard and soft pastels, as well as pastel pencils, I don't like the dust and mess. Life is short, so why spend any extra time cleaning up? It would be fun to see you explore inks, both water-soluable and permanent.
Life is short, why abandon a style of art just because of a short clean up time?
Beautiful
OH IT IS A PEACH! (I could not for the life of me see it at first haha)
Wow 😍✨
Tfs I love pastels!!
Your work is always incredible!
Thanks Kayla!
I prefer pastels over acrylic anytime
It's not really an exploring new mediums thing, but I'd be interested to know if you fixed the piece with a spray or something afterwards! Pastels are a bit daunting for me, partially because I'm clumsy, and partially because...fixative...not fun.
I haven't sprayed it yet. I think I may slap some color on another sheet and test it first!
Love this, I might try, what about showing the water soluable crayons such as the Neocolor ll by Caran d ache? I would love to see what you think of them?
Like the Bird!!!!!! Happy New Year! just found your channel, I felt like you were describing myself.
Do You do oil pastels, I got the mungyo gallery artist soft oil pastels for christmas as well as the soft ones you used. Please do more pastels any kind just lots more. I also like how you explain things. Thank you for doing this tutorial.
I couldn’t do it, the thought of all that dust being inhaled!
There's barely any dust with artist grade supplies and prefer surfaces :)
What is the difference between pan pastels and palette pastels?
one would never know this medium is new to you, gorgeous. That paper really makes a huge difference in picking up and keeping the pigment on the page, do you use a fixative?
Thank you Leslie! I haven't decided if I want to try to use a fixative on this one. I think I may slap some color on another sheet and test it first.
Nice
Your videos are so well edited, Denise! What do you use to edit them?
Thanks Lilian! I use Movavi.
I really want to try out pastels..... but the heebee jeebee's I got from watching this everytime the pastels rubbed against the paper and especially when you used your fingers.... was... just... super intense and made it hard to watch. But imma stick with it. I'm still on the peach part, so wish me luck. Does anyone else have the same issue? I can't stand using chalk or touching flour, the texture just really bothers me. But I still bake and I still use chalk pastels with my polymer clay, so I think there's hope for me yet.... I hope!!
I am currently obsessed with this medium and you should check out "Alain Picard" here on RUclips. He does this alcohol under-painting with the pastels that is AMAZING! i believe I am going to be creating new work in this medium as soon as I decide on a soft pastel brand or brands! It seems no one uses just one! He truly "Paints" with pastels and I can not recommend him enough!
Love soft pastels, but the messiness and possible health implication scare me off a bit, why not try oil pastels? I've been curious about them for awhile but never really tried (besides 2-3 individual sticks i bought) I like that there is no dust and fixative is not required (I think) Love the channel.
That is true, though you could wear a mask if the dust is concerning! I've never gravitated towards oil pastel on their own, but I used to teach oil pastel and watercolor lessons in my classrooms and loved that! It may be worth looking into :)
Thanks. True there are precautions you can take to minimize health concerns but I guess I like to not worry about that kind of stuff, guess I've been spoiled by watercolor and graphite. Plus I like to have a cup of coffee/tea next to my work area and so much dust nearby/on hands would make me think twice about that. Although I love the look of soft pastels, practically speaking I think oil pastel is probably better for me
@@mitchellscott1843 fair enough! 😁
:)@@InLiquidColor
Please try alcohol markers!
How about gouache or india ink? I think india ink used like watercolor and really layered could be beautiful ;)
Gouache was our first episode! But we can add ink to the list :)
How do you fix it? or, Do you fix it?
With fixative spray
use inktense pencils. they are different from colored pencils.
As far as I can tell, Skillshare doesn't use PayPal so I'm out of luck. I've had my credit card compromised t times in the last year. Too risky.
I'm sorry to hear Susan! I know they're "working" on PayPal as an option. I thought someone mentioned in Europe that it was an option now, but I could be mistaken.
I accidentally read the "artist soft pastels" as "artist loft pastels" and was a bit scared for a second xD
😂
It was a nice video, but it is not for me, too messy.
Fair enough!
one thing no one ever talks about is how horrible acr,lic paints are for the ground water. Acrylic is pigment suspened in plastic. The left over paint water goes down the drain putting microplastic into the sewer system. Most microplastic never gets filtered out. I think that even oilpaint used with natural turpentine is less harsh on the environment than acrylic paint. And now there is watersoluable oil paint. The oil ist natural linseed oil..I have avoided acrylic because of that alone so far. and the only bottle I ever tried I did not enjoy and ended up giving it a school.
I agree on the waste water for acrylics. One thing I love so much about watercolor is how little waste it produces!
Pastels are #1 and watercolor #2.
Color pencils take too long, oils have too much cleanup and take long to dry, acrylic just looks amateurish unless you’re extremely skilled at it.
Ok. Is it just me or does anyone else find themselves blowing on their screen to blow away the dusty particles of pastel? Lol.
😂
The pastel painting were great, btw. Probably not a medium I'm going to invest in, but it's always a pleasure to see someone else enjoy creating.
And oooooh, the tape pull at the end!
your hatred of color pencils is my hatred of pastels LOL!! Just seeing you pick it up and have green dust on your fingers makes me cringe
It's so much easier to clean though than any other "messy medium" haha :D Lots of different mediums for us all though!