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Thanks for the kind words. I am glad to help out the learning process.

Bien, chao! Habla espanol?

Thanks

Oh! Thanks for reminding me about the ecological benefits too! If you ever want to dabble in pastel….come back and visit us. Thanks.

Glad to help….and thanks for saying well done-Im new at this and flying by the seat of my pants , so that comment means a lot to me right now. Thanks

No problem, glad something I do can help you.

You can skip the stencil step if you draw well. Using gray values then painting over them helps develop the color values oftentimes. Thanks for watching.

If in doubt how to proceed….this oftentimes helps. You may not use it every time but it is a good tool and exercise. Thanks for watching.

Glad it might help.

No problem! I am an experimenter and likely future episodes will still something new that I discover. Thanks for watching.

Thanks…my channel has begun to focus on wet techniques and a large proportion will be demos using various liquids of different viscosity

Ah… that’s a common problem, have a tray that has five sections. When i use one i have the try close and the when the painting is done i can get all the values back into the larger collection of colors. If in doubt…i look at the trays in mono tone with my phone and only have to resort a few rather the whole set.

My series next year will go through at least 20 designs and when mixed that gives an artist thousands of possibilities. Its a crutch to get started but after a while your mind intuitively starts to build these after a while.

I hope it inspired you. Pastel is so versatile when one stops just using them alone.

Yes….try caran d arch neo II crayons, they are a water soluble wax pastel.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching

More to come! Thanks for hanging in there. Lots more textures

Pastels are very flexible and can be uses in so many different ways.

You're welcome! I hope other color theory vids I do help you too.

Yes, if I’m understanding your question, pastel can be used as an under painting, dry or wetted with any medium for different effects -then acrylic or oil could be painted over it - however, it would then become a mixed media if the acrylic or oil painting over it was not covering the pastel or it would become an oil painting where the artist just used pastel instead of charcoal to draft in the underpainting for an oil painting. Did this properly answer what I think you asked?

@@PastelWithAvon Yes, thank you very much. I guess, I was thinking of a mixed media.

You made me laugh….yip!!!

Yes, any pastel other than oil pastels can be used to block in the large shapes of a painting and then any liquid such as water and alcohol can be used to spread those colors onto the substrate. I hope I understood the question correctly.

Not a problem…On my channel I have several videos with color theory in their title should you decide to explore more on the topic.

Glad I could help.

LOL…I say the same thing when I see something I can use that seems so obvious after I see it.

Mine are a bit gritty but I suspect that is more from them being different sized dust particles collected than a feature of what they were rolled in. If you had one of those marble mortar and petals, I bet grinding the powder in it would make less coarse finished pastels. Just guessing, it's something worth trying if I had one.

I love Girault and Unison by Richarson. My fav.

Thank for watching

Thanks kiddo….keep up the great work.

You are welcome…I home the video helped and I am happy to share.

Thanks for watching…really anything goes unless competition rules exclude it. Pastel can be mixed with almost anything.

If I understand your question: wet pastel can be uses at the beginning, and anywhere along the process… up to NEAR the end. What limits its use are competition rules for pastel shows. Typically they require the final surface to be at least 80 percent dry pastel. If you don’t enter these shows,,,,then anything goes. If that wasn’t your question then let me know.

You are lucky then….flat land painters face different challenges. Thanks for watching

Oh, thanks. Sometimes I get a substrate that is just cursed!! After 3 attempts sometimes I realize this idea just isn’t going to work, so it still isn’t all roses, lol

I happy I could contribute something to your artistic growth. If you love digital drawing, and don’t struggle with technology, use it to draw your scenes and change the elements or values or even remove and add trees until you have something to paint from. You will be surprised how your memory will fill in the details not in the drawings.

So glad I contributed something to your artist’s life. A lot of times when artists use the word “notan” it has also become common for them to mean value sketch, design or thumbnail, and not just the black and white design elements.

Yes, thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching and Im happy I could share.

Thanks for the kind words

Glad An idea of mine was of use v

I will have to check those out. Thanks

They are impossible to find in my region too….I have to go to Blick or online for them.

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

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

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.

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.

A lot of artists use cardboard. At least one version of the Scream by Evard Munch is on cardboard. We should all use the best materials we can for works but for studies and such, or if you can't afford great materials, you use what you can afford, especially for studies and experimenting.

​@@PastelWithAvonyeah I think cardboard is good for experimenting on, I can't remember which Wyeth it was that used cardboard, it just came from cardboard boxes I wonder how long the painting will last. I guess like he said it'll give a job to a conservationist😊

Scotland!!! You just might be my furthest viewer…thanks for the kind words. Just passing on to others as was done for me.

Its not even archival if you do both sides. Thats why I mention that if it were ever to become collectable….it would give a museum curator work. Only the gesso is archival, therefore the surface you paint on is archival. The backing will eventually fall apart but long after we are dead. A bit of artist humor???

Oh I used to do the same thing with my left over paints. You can also use them to tint pastel papers but if the paint is oil it will never wash out should you one day want to wash off a pastel and reuse the paper