A tip for those who think at the beginning that Karen's tutorials are not going to lead to anything good, and you are getting bored or discouraged, just start with the result at the end. By the way: the boring part is never boring, I think it is the miracle part. I have enjoyed this tutorial very much. Gràcies.
The magic comes when the mess turns into a masterpiece before you realize it is happening. It's the best part of the videos- you know it is coming, but you just don't know when- it's like Christmas
I live in Idaho! I can’t get enough pictures of our beautiful state. We need to travel north for more pics. Too busy going to our rural farm 100 miles north of Boise. Would like to share a picture one day to see if all would like to paint it!?
I am so glad I found your tutorials! I am new to pastels and you have a great teaching style and your explanations are so good and just make a lot of sense! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent! I love your paintings!
You are one of the better pastel teachers on RUclips. Thank you for all of your efforts, and I do love your paintings and benefit from your instructions.
Thank you for the review of the Lux Archival paper. I recently did a test of 9 papers by painting the same image on each of them. The Lux Archival was the favorite of all those who saw my finished project. There were a few in the bunch that I will not be using. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I do enjoy watching your videos and have learned so much from you.
Je vous découvre et j'apprécie beaucoup toutes vos explications qui ne sont ni longues ni inutiles puisqu'elles nous aident à comprendre le cheminement du tableau qui s'avère être magnifique. Du coup je like et je m'abonne. Merci de Paris.
I am a total beginner with pastels. Your videos make them seem so approachable and fun! I appreciate you taking the time to explain your thought process, it has already helped me so much.
Your painting turned out lovely, so much better than you boring reference photo! I’m amazed how you turned the same landscape into a much more interesting version! I do enjoy your videos quite a lot ✨
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I love your channel. I bought this paper for similar reasons and you really inspired me to move forward and give it a try. Fabulous video,
Thank you Karen! I’m loving that you are posting some of our Patreon videos here on RUclips. As a subscriber to your Patreon I enjoy being able to watch the videos on my big screen TV! It’s so much easier to see your wonderful work. Like watching a movie. Thank you Winsome x
I tried to find the Blair fixative but I had no luck. But I live in Portugal so it's different. I hate when we love a product and they stop producing or change it. I wanted to try Blair because of the low odor. I bought a Conté à Paris one but haven't used it yet. I'll let you know. About the artwork... Wonderful. It is amazing how you transform the photo into an amazing, full of life (color and strokes) painting. Outstanding. 👏❤️
I love your work. Very beautiful painting and very informative session. The final painting looks more like a warm rich summer evening while the photograph shows a late spring morning. That is you artistic interpretation, and I love it.
Its really interesting - I love pastel paintings and mounting the paper as you do is a great idea - and the second challenge for using pastels are for me to avoid the glass because I love the raw surface without a glass
@@KarenMargulis Same glass I prefer; really makes a difference.👍 Add: When I mount, I sometimes use a trim of mat board colored close and cut to be invisible, but keeps pastel away from glass. Others mount tight to glass, which I am uncomfortable with. How do you approach glass vs painting depth?
Another tip-filled and engaging instructional video! Lux Archival has been favorite of mine for awhile and I’ve been raving about it so it’s great to hear your appreciation for its many fine qualities. I missed Heidi’s amusing commentary this time but perhaps she was dreaming about your next project, formulating thoughts to contribute. I truly love painting rocks and stone faces (so much variety and character) so I enjoyed this composition. I always learn so much whether spoken or demonstrated by your technique. Much gratitude!
Love your beautiful work and wonderful way you teach. I am just started and getting frustrated with mounting sanded paper etc as prep. Your use of color is inspiring! Thanks!
Love it so much! So well done, I am working with acrylic paint, but I just got few ideas I would try to apply for creating my work. Thank you so much for such wonderful demo.
So I must say that your demos are the best! I am new to pastels and really did not know where to start. A few years back I ran 4 of your demo and kept up among side with my senneliers and was amazed at what I learned! I have also seen your work recently in Plein Air. Amazing!
Beautiful painting, much beyond the boring ref pic. I need to set up my easel and practice these from all the boring mtn scenes I have from much traveling!
Thank you for the taping demo. Once you showed how you did it, it seems so obvious but I really couldn't figure out how y'all were doing it 😂. I love your channel and your demos, Karen. Thank you so much!❤❤❤
I always enjoy your thought process during your painting. I have a tendency just keep at it until my paper won't hold anymore pastel. LOL. We do get lost in our creativity.
The meadow is attractive with the multi-purpled lupines against the greens, but I fell in love with the mountain colors, especially that sun-lit center one! Your placement of the colors for the sunshine-lit vs shadow areas is perfect! I LOVE this painting! Thank you for teaching this!
@@KarenMargulis I think what is confusing is that the ones in the background (along the top of the ridge) are bigger than the ones in the foreground. But, it seems to work. Was that an intentional distortion of the perspective to bring the viewer closer?
Thank you very much for the tips and for Lux Archival Paper that does not need to be mounted. Great. And Its so interesting to watch your process and listen to your reflections on your choices and your lovely feeling for color and tone and for me it was a surprice that its possible to scrub the pastel with water - seemed to be a great idea that I will try. And I am curious do you create miniart? I would like you to share if you do.
You are so welcome! Thank you so much for watching. I am not sure what you mean by minart? I do occasionally paint small 2.5x3.5 artist trading cards. Is this what you mean?
I'm still new at pastel and all its delicious intricacies. You are a huge help to me~thank you so much, Karen! You've answered all my current questions.
Thank you for your teaching . I have been practicing how to create the grasses kind of covering some of the flowers .Wonderful painting and great lesson !
Karen, could you do a video explaining what colors really work well and look good together? I find that to be my biggest hurdle- not knowing what colors I should use. Maybe there are colors say cerulean blue and a shade of pink that look particularly good together? And maybe some analogous colors that seem to really sing together?
Love your work .. have learned a lot .. getting to the point where I actually am happy with some of my results :) I see someone else pointed out Amazon seems to have the blair fixative.
Incredible underpainting- this one looked so beautiful with the contrasting values- it almost seemed good as is. I wanted to ask if by any chance you’ d be willing to do a Terry Ludwig give a way? And yes, you are so right to remind us, that to every beautiful creation there is an “ugly” stage. It’s universal with everything in God’s World- Including pastels. I forget sometimes. I always look forward to your new video- and never am disappointed always learn (or relearn ) something important for this work. God Bless you😇 Ps I noticed three comments with an added link to perverted materials- they usually are in blue and have “.fyi added. (I clicked on one to see what it was) This is just for others who may not know- please report spam comments and other comments not related. They usually post a short comment in addition to the link. Like, “ Good” or “ Lovely” something simple so that it doesn’t get tagged right away. I get frustrated with these spammers especially on a site where there is higher quality content and really sweet community. ❤️
Thank you so much for the info on the spammers! I just noticed them and will certainly report them. I appreciate you taking the time to comment. A Terry Ludwig giveaway sure would be fun. I will add it to my list of things to look into! Thanks again!
I’m having difficulty sending you a message. They keep disappearing. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the mountains with the blue flowers. You’re so easy to follow. Thank you so much for your inspiration. Eileen.
A superb video to show the process, techniques and materials. I have recently bought some Pastelmat paper, by Clairefontaine, so this kind of painting will be great to start using the new paper. I usually paint in watercolours, albeit a novice, but I am keen to try pastels as I have a couple of basic starter sets that I haven't used very much. Seeing how you built up this painting has given me the inspiration to have a go and see how it works out.
New to your Patreon site and new to pastels. You're a fantastic teacher and enjoying your videos. Love this mountain scene. Only wish pastels and papers weren't so so expensive.
Karen, thank you for teaching me to paint landscapes. My typical portrait & wildlife art is hyperrealism. Occasionally, I've been required to do a bit of landscape background & have been at a complete loss. Now, after watching numerous of your wonderful videos, I'm actually contemplating trying a landscape for....(gasp!) fun! btw, one of the first videos of yours I watched, during the part that the painting was at its' "ugly" stage, may have been poppies, I got so stressed out that I had to pause the video and leave the studio for a while before coming back for the magical conclusion :D
Thank you for watching my videos! I appreciate your comment about the ugly stage. I am afraid I lose viewers because they don't believe I can make anything of the painting! Maybe I should show a photo of the finished painting at the beginning of the video!
A tip for those who think at the beginning that Karen's tutorials are not going to lead to anything good, and you are getting bored or discouraged, just start with the result at the end. By the way: the boring part is never boring, I think it is the miracle part. I have enjoyed this tutorial very much. Gràcies.
Thank you so much!! I appreciate your feedback and comment for others! Thanks so much for watching!
The magic comes when the mess turns into a masterpiece before you realize it is happening. It's the best part of the videos- you know it is coming, but you just don't know when- it's like Christmas
Your videos are rich in teaching and it is a real pleasure to listen to you, greetings from France !
Many thanks! I appreciate you watching!
Loved your picture. It came out at a great time .we just got back from Idaho and Montana. You as always make it look so easy. Thanks so much
Awesome! Thank you! Have fun with your new inspiration!!
I live in Idaho! I can’t get enough pictures of our beautiful state. We need to travel north for more pics. Too busy going to our rural farm 100 miles north of Boise. Would like to share a picture one day to see if all would like to paint it!?
@@LiveforHim73 I live in Idaho also east of Bosie.
LuxArchival is my favorite paper. I can wash a bad painting off of it, and it never buckles! It's really lovely paper.
I am so glad I found your tutorials! I am new to pastels and you have a great teaching style and your explanations are so good and just make a lot of sense! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent! I love your paintings!
You are so welcome!
Great tutorial. I am a newbie to pastels and your teaching style is so clear! Thank you for sharing!!
You are so welcome! Welcome to the wonderful world of pastels!
Great tutorial, as usual. I've learned so much from your easy teaching style. Always look forward to watching you create!
Thanks so much! I am happy to share!
Beautiful
Love the mid mountain and the light and shade on it
I get very inspired watching you create your paintings Karen. Thank you 🙏🏻 Soft pastels are such beautiful things. 💖
You are one of the better pastel teachers on RUclips. Thank you for all of your efforts, and I do love your paintings and benefit from your instructions.
Thank you so much 😀 I appreciate you watching!
I tried the paper for the first time 2 days ago ~ you are 100 % right on your review of this paper.
Great to hear! I'm really enjoying it!
Thank you for the review of the Lux Archival paper. I recently did a test of 9 papers by painting the same image on each of them. The Lux Archival was the favorite of all those who saw my finished project. There were a few in the bunch that I will not be using. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I do enjoy watching your videos and have learned so much from you.
Thanks for sharing! Your test sounds very interesting!
Would you be willing to share results of your test? What you found out, and which you like best?
You are one of the best on line instructors. Thank you so much.
Je vous découvre et j'apprécie beaucoup toutes vos explications qui ne sont ni longues ni inutiles puisqu'elles nous aident à comprendre le cheminement du tableau qui s'avère être magnifique. Du coup je like et je m'abonne. Merci de Paris.
You have a magical touch, Karen! You make it look so easy 😩. Fabulous painting.
Thank you so much!
Karen…what a wonderful lesson. So so enjoyed taking the time to share your beautiful skills with us.
Thank you so much! I appreciate you watching!
I could watch you paint all day long. I love how your mountains turned out, especially.
Thanks so much 😊
I am a total beginner with pastels. Your videos make them seem so approachable and fun! I appreciate you taking the time to explain your thought process, it has already helped me so much.
You are so welcome!
Your painting turned out lovely, so much better than you boring reference photo! I’m amazed how you turned the same landscape into a much more interesting version! I do enjoy your videos quite a lot ✨
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I love your channel. I bought this paper for similar reasons and you really inspired me to move forward and give it a try. Fabulous video,
Thank you Karen! I’m loving that you are posting some of our Patreon videos here on RUclips. As a subscriber to your Patreon I enjoy being able to watch the videos on my big screen TV! It’s so much easier to see your wonderful work. Like watching a movie. Thank you Winsome x
You are so welcome! Thanks for being a Patreon Insider!!
Wonderful!!! You really make me want to paint. Thank you for this beautiful tutorial🙏
Thank you so much 😀
I tried to find the Blair fixative but I had no luck. But I live in Portugal so it's different. I hate when we love a product and they stop producing or change it. I wanted to try Blair because of the low odor. I bought a Conté à Paris one but haven't used it yet. I'll let you know. About the artwork... Wonderful. It is amazing how you transform the photo into an amazing, full of life (color and strokes) painting. Outstanding. 👏❤️
Thanks! Yes please do let me know about the Conte. I am always looking for different products to try.
I love this! I really like how you explained how and why you do something!! I will be becoming a patron!
Yay!! I am so glad you discovered my videos and I look forward to sharing more on Patreon!
This landscape is so beautifully done, I’m going to try, thanks a lot❤
I love your work. Very beautiful painting and very informative session. The final painting looks more like a warm rich summer evening while the photograph shows a late spring morning. That is you artistic interpretation, and I love it.
Thank you so much 😀
Thank you for the information about the Lux Archival paper.
You are so welcome!
Wonderful video Karen! I'm loving this surface... so durable!
Thanks Susan! It really is! It allows us to do so much !!
Its really interesting - I love pastel paintings and mounting the paper as you do is a great idea - and the second challenge for using pastels are for me to avoid the glass because I love the raw surface without a glass
Thank you! I have not found a good way to frame without glass but I do prefer to use Tru Vue Museum glass which is just about invisible.
@@KarenMargulis Same glass I prefer; really makes a difference.👍 Add: When I mount, I sometimes use a trim of mat board colored close and cut to be invisible, but keeps pastel away from glass. Others mount tight to glass, which I am uncomfortable with. How do you approach glass vs painting depth?
Super good lesson. I love the way you teach and explain so much of why you're doing what you're doing. Love it!
I appreciate that! Thank you!
Another tip-filled and engaging instructional video! Lux Archival has been favorite of mine for awhile and I’ve been raving about it so it’s great to hear your appreciation for its many fine qualities. I missed Heidi’s amusing commentary this time but perhaps she was dreaming about your next project, formulating thoughts to contribute. I truly love painting rocks and stone faces (so much variety and character) so I enjoyed this composition. I always learn so much whether spoken or demonstrated by your technique. Much gratitude!
I’ve just recently purchased soft pastels and this video is full of wonderful information ❤ thanks for all of you hard work.
Love your beautiful work and wonderful way you teach. I am just started and getting frustrated with mounting sanded paper etc as prep. Your use of color is inspiring! Thanks!
You are so welcome! I am happy to share what I learned!
Love it so much! So well done, I am working with acrylic paint, but I just got few ideas I would try to apply for creating my work. Thank you so much for such wonderful demo.
So I must say that your demos are the best! I am new to pastels and really did not know where to start. A few years back I ran 4 of your demo and kept up among side with my senneliers and was amazed at what I learned! I have also seen your work recently in Plein Air. Amazing!
Thank you so much for watching and your kind words! It is a pleasure for me to share!
Beautiful painting, much beyond the boring ref pic. I need to set up my easel and practice these from all the boring mtn scenes I have from much traveling!
Thanks for watching!!
Thank you for the taping demo. Once you showed how you did it, it seems so obvious but I really couldn't figure out how y'all were doing it 😂. I love your channel and your demos, Karen. Thank you so much!❤❤❤
Loved this as usual
Glad you enjoyed!
I always enjoy your thought process during your painting. I have a tendency just keep at it until my paper won't hold anymore pastel. LOL. We do get lost in our creativity.
Thanks for watching! I do know what you mean by getting lost in a painting!
Karen…what a great lesson. Thank you so much for taking this time to share your wonderful knowledge and skills.
You are so welcome!
Beautiful and magical
I am your avid fan Karen. I go really with same style. Thanks.
Beautiful!! Thanks 🙏 Karen Great paper very luminous effect . . .🤩
The meadow is attractive with the multi-purpled lupines against the greens, but I fell in love with the mountain colors, especially that sun-lit center one! Your placement of the colors for the sunshine-lit vs shadow areas is perfect! I LOVE this painting! Thank you for teaching this!
Thank you very much!
So pretty
Lux Archival has a spray fixative. What a wonderful video!
The flowers are out of proportion and to the trees. The selection of colors are beautiful.
Thanks for watching. My goal for this painting was to capture the low angle of looking up through the flowers so that is why they appear larger.
@@KarenMargulis I think what is confusing is that the ones in the background (along the top of the ridge) are bigger than the ones in the foreground. But, it seems to work. Was that an intentional distortion of the perspective to bring the viewer closer?
Interesting to learn more about underpainting options and paper! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed watching and learning ~ thanks
Lovely! Really enjoy watching you paint. Inspirational!
Thank you very much for the tips and for Lux Archival Paper that does not need to be mounted. Great.
And Its so interesting to watch your process and listen to your reflections on your choices and your lovely feeling for color and tone and for me it was a surprice that its possible to scrub the pastel with water - seemed to be a great idea that I will try. And I am curious do you create miniart? I would like you to share if you do.
You are so welcome! Thank you so much for watching. I am not sure what you mean by minart? I do occasionally paint small 2.5x3.5 artist trading cards. Is this what you mean?
Got my fifth one created. Thanks
Wonderful painting! Love the colors! Will have to try this paper soon. Thank you Karen!
Have fun! Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Am new to pastel..just observing right now..
I'm still new at pastel and all its delicious intricacies. You are a huge help to me~thank you so much, Karen! You've answered all my current questions.
I'm so glad! It is a pleasure to share with you!
Thank you for your teaching . I have been practicing how to create the grasses kind of covering some of the flowers .Wonderful painting and great lesson !
You are so welcome! I appreciate you watching!
Thank you Karen, great video! I love revisiting your older videos.
Glad you like them!
❤️😘like the painting ma'm .
Thank you. Lovely painting.
Thank you! 😊
Love the "simple" tips for beginners, and budget ideas.
Glad you liked it!! Thanks for watching!
I so enjoyed your class. You are so talented and I learned so much. Thank you.
Pure magic. Thank you.
Thank you Susan!
Lovely painting and as always a great demo! Learn so much from your videos every time, thank you!
Thank you very much!
Great lesson. Love your patreon site, Karen!
Thanks so much! I appreciate your support!
Well done. I love this piece.
I liked the alcohol wash she did with the mountains. Almost looked like a watercolor. I almost saw two paintings.
Liked the painting ma'm and the way your flower's pop out.
Thanks! I appreciate your comment!
@@KarenMargulis Ma'm l like your teaching style clear voice and systematic.thank you ma'm
Pretty 🎨
Those taped hinges are a great idea, and I didn't know you "paint" with pastel by just adding water.
Glad it was helpful!
this is what I was looking for:) Thank you
You're an amazing teacher! Love this! Thank you x
Thank you so much!
Beautiful picture. Thank you for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Karen, could you do a video explaining what colors really work well and look good together? I find that to be my biggest hurdle- not knowing what colors I should use. Maybe there are colors say cerulean blue and a shade of pink that look particularly good together? And maybe some analogous colors that seem to really sing together?
Love your work .. have learned a lot .. getting to the point where I actually am happy with some of my results :)
I see someone else pointed out Amazon seems to have the blair fixative.
Thank you! I will look into it. Someone also found it at fineartstore.com Thanks for letting me know!
Great video as usual! Really love the way you explain your process. Thanks Karen!
Thanks so much!
Always love your technique... brilliant.. 😍
Thank you so much 😀
Incredible underpainting- this one looked so beautiful with the contrasting values- it almost seemed good as is.
I wanted to ask if by any chance you’ d be willing to do a Terry Ludwig give a way?
And yes, you are so right to remind us, that to every beautiful creation there is an “ugly” stage. It’s universal with everything in God’s World-
Including pastels. I forget sometimes.
I always look forward to your new video- and never am disappointed always learn (or relearn ) something important for this work.
God Bless you😇
Ps I noticed three comments with an added link to perverted materials- they usually are in blue and have “.fyi
added.
(I clicked on one to see what it was)
This is just for others who may not know- please report spam comments and other comments not related. They usually post a short comment in addition to the link. Like,
“ Good” or “ Lovely” something simple so that it doesn’t get tagged right away.
I get frustrated with these spammers especially on a site where there is higher quality content and really sweet community.
❤️
Thank you so much for the info on the spammers! I just noticed them and will certainly report them. I appreciate you taking the time to comment. A Terry Ludwig giveaway sure would be fun. I will add it to my list of things to look into! Thanks again!
I’m having difficulty sending you a message. They keep disappearing. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the mountains with the blue flowers. You’re so easy to follow. Thank you so much for your inspiration. Eileen.
Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate you watching!!
What a treasure to watch you create. TFS!
Thank you so much!
Very informative. Beautiful. Another great video my friend. Thumbs up. Have a blessed week.
Thank you! You too!
Lovely!
Thank you!
Love your work and your videos. Thanks for all you do Karen 👍🏼✨🌻
Thank you so much!
These techniques are very helpful! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
You are such a good teacher.
Thanks so much. It's my pleasure to share!
Thank you!! You have inspired me! I have purchased soft pastels, and am waiting for them to arrive.
Wonderful! Welcome to the wonderful world of pastels!!
So beautiful, as usual. I always wonder if the underpainting would be beautiful framed also.
That would be fun to keep just underpainitngs!
Always a lot of info in your videos!!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
A superb video to show the process, techniques and materials. I have recently bought some Pastelmat paper, by Clairefontaine, so this kind of painting will be great to start using the new paper.
I usually paint in watercolours, albeit a novice, but I am keen to try pastels as I have a couple of basic starter sets that I haven't used very much. Seeing how you built up this painting has given me the inspiration to have a go and see how it works out.
Wonderful! I appreciate you watching!
This is a beautiful painting. I love what you do! Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Beautiful colors 🥰
New to your Patreon site and new to pastels. You're a fantastic teacher and enjoying your videos. Love this mountain scene. Only wish pastels and papers weren't so so expensive.
Awesome, thank you! Welcome to our group! Let's Paint!
Karen, thank you for teaching me to paint landscapes. My typical portrait & wildlife art is hyperrealism. Occasionally, I've been required to do a bit of landscape background & have been at a complete loss. Now, after watching numerous of your wonderful videos, I'm actually contemplating trying a landscape for....(gasp!) fun! btw, one of the first videos of yours I watched, during the part that the painting was at its' "ugly" stage, may have been poppies, I got so stressed out that I had to pause the video and leave the studio for a while before coming back for the magical conclusion :D
Thank you for watching my videos! I appreciate your comment about the ugly stage. I am afraid I lose viewers because they don't believe I can make anything of the painting! Maybe I should show a photo of the finished painting at the beginning of the video!
@@KarenMargulis Your videos are perfect as they are. I wouldn't change anything!
Love it what nice way to make a master piece
Thank you! 😊
I'm a newbie for sure and love your videos. I'll be watching more for sure. Thanks
Thank you so much for watching!
Super helpful! Thank you.
Beautiful!!!
Beautiful. 😊
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this. I was very frustrated with other paper buckling. I will let you know what I find with it.
Thanks for this video!
Fantastic! Bravo! Merci! 🌲🥳🌟🤩🤗