I'm really enjoying your series on pastels, I'm learning a lot from each video. Could you do a video on the myths of pastel toxicity (use of mask, gloves) ? Greetings from Brazil.
Excellent topic suggestion!!! i will add that to the list. In the winter we are neighbors…I spend time in Colombia in North America winters, your summer.
The principles, if I understand your statement, are the same but for small areas a the tools must be modified to use smaller strikes or even pencils might be required if a lot of detail is your aim. At such small sizes, strokes side by side with no bleeding would still result in a gray
Tell me more, maybe you are referring to a combination of marks that visually our minds mix but up close they are just individual color? Like the principles of pointalism but with traditional mark making??
@@PastelWithAvon Thank you for your reply. Yes! You are correct. Many years ago I went to The Barnes Collection, when it was still in the suburbs. It was not my first visit so I was more focused. In a corner, at knee height. Was a Degas pastel painting of legs, only. It was so many colors! I’ve never forgotten it. Small contouring strokes of so many colors. The Collection was moved, in tact, to a permanent home on the Ben Franklin Parkway. We’re talking Philadelphia here. The paintings and other artifacts are exhibited in exactly the same way they were at the original location. Not so easy to see but with much better lighting. I wish I could revisit The Barnes in its better location. Alas, no longer possible for me. A special memory.
Yes, me too, but occasionally my set just doesn’t have the gray that is best for the situation. And Im trying to help people just starting who have yet to acquire as many pastels as those of us who have been at it a while
I'm really enjoying your series on pastels, I'm learning a lot from each video. Could you do a video on the myths of pastel toxicity (use of mask, gloves) ? Greetings from Brazil.
Excellent topic suggestion!!! i will add that to the list. In the winter we are neighbors…I spend time in Colombia in North America winters, your summer.
You could mix grays on surface if that area is large...but if u have to paint small area of colour gray...its difficult to blend small area
The principles, if I understand your statement, are the same but for small areas a the tools must be modified to use smaller strikes or even pencils might be required if a lot of detail is your aim. At such small sizes, strokes side by side with no bleeding would still result in a gray
How about a neutral without physical blending? Optical blending?
Tell me more, maybe you are referring to a combination of marks that visually our minds mix but up close they are just individual color? Like the principles of pointalism but with traditional mark making??
@@PastelWithAvon Thank you for your reply. Yes! You are correct. Many years ago I went to The Barnes Collection, when it was still in the suburbs. It was not my first visit so I was more focused. In a corner, at knee height. Was a Degas pastel painting of legs, only. It was so many colors! I’ve never forgotten it. Small contouring strokes of so many colors. The Collection was moved, in tact, to a permanent home on the Ben Franklin Parkway. We’re talking Philadelphia here. The paintings and other artifacts are exhibited in exactly the same way they were at the original location. Not so easy to see but with much better lighting. I wish I could revisit The Barnes in its better location. Alas, no longer possible for me. A special memory.
Whole point of me using pastels is availability of ready made hues ...grays...so that i could just pick nearest hue and make mark
Yes, me too, but occasionally my set just doesn’t have the gray that is best for the situation. And Im trying to help people just starting who have yet to acquire as many pastels as those of us who have been at it a while