I love the way you took an incredibly boring reference photo and turned it into something so beautiful. The power of creativity… And you did it in 20 minutes
I love the way you break down the steps to make pastel painting accessible to those of us learning. I treated myself to your Terry Ludwig set. I look at my mailbox every day hoping they have come!
I decided I wanted to try my hand at my grandmother’s beautiful set of pastels which are now 50+ years old, so I turned your video on to give me a jumping off point. Wow! What a find. Your painting is amazing and your interpretation of the original reference really lovely. I so happy I found your channel and can’t wait to follow you. Thank you for sharing your talent.
At the end of the 7 minute mark your painting reminded me of a William Turner painting...one of my very favorite artists. Amazing how you take such a drab picture and bring it to life with color.
You make it look so simple but when I try it, it’s definitely not. You are gifted - and such a generous teacher sharing your talent and knowledge. Thank you, Karen. You give me such joy - and hope
Hi, I just created this, my first pastel painting, turned out pretty well, I'm a watercolor artist. They sure are a lot more forgiving than watercolors! But I painted with the vacuum at my side. 😁
Your painting was much more beautiful and dynamic than the photo you had for inspiration. Your use of the colors really made the picture come to life and turned what was a rather boring looking field into something beautiful. I have inherited my Mom's art supplies and among them was a box of soft pastels. I am hoping to learn how to use them to make beautiful paintings, myself.
Thank you for this. Describing the theoretical aspects of what you were trying to achieve in each moment of the painting while showing what you were doing was very useful. I benefited a lot from this video.
This is beautiful! You inspired me to paint a few snowmen. They were fun, simple and easy. I’m a senior citizen on break from my art classes and I didn’t want to rust. I enjoy watching you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Happy New Year!
So lovely, as always! I see a heart in purple in the sky on the left hand side. I think it is a sign from my mom who passed away in November. She was a watercolor artist and was so happy that I took up painting in the last few years. Perhaps I'm just looking for it, but I think it is a sign through your beautiful painting. ❤
So good to see you and your creations. Thank you so much for sharing and inspiring. Have a wonderful 2022 Karen. By the way, I took this advise from another video of yours, of using the same pallette, and I've painted 2 Completely different scenes. One a winter landscape and another just huge clouds in the sky. I hated the first one and I am loving the clouds. If I had put the pallette away It would have been just a waste of time picking it up. I thought of what you said and voila a painting that I am so happy with, and it's not even done yet. Thanks again!😘
This was wonderful!! Thanks for walking us through one of these paintings from beginning to end. It really helped me understand how these are done and how to begin myself
You are so talented. The idea of putting multiple colors of same values certainly does make for interesting look. It’s so beautiful before you even finish. You just know perfectly what color to put where and it’s appearance is incredibly appealing. I truly enjoy watching you turn these creation from the opposite colors one would expect to see…. Into a gorgeous piece of artwork. You and your process amazes me. Thank you for sharing your thought process as you paint.
I am inspired by this 20 min. painting you did. It is so vibrant; it really sings! I’m going to be exhibiting my paintings at the senior community where I live in Tucson, Arizona. These are a variety of media leading up to my recent passion for pastels. Once the show is mounted, I plan on making some small paintings and completing the commission of an 18x24” pastel of a French Poodle. I did a 9x12 preliminary painting which I am using as a guide for the larger version.
Nice work. I do really enjoyed its growing up. But, I'd say you make it complicated rather than "just" simple. May be due to the multiple color overlaps you "professionally" used. Thanks for sharing this beauty .
I have been watching you for years and I admire your painting, I am also like you, only I am an amateur this year and last year we experienced years of misery and pain, I wish the new year to bring you health and to do what your heart desires, thank you for everything you offer with your painting =Athens /Greece
Karen you are a great painter. One thing I see that you could have done. The greens are isolated a few marks of green in the fore ground grasses would unify the painting. Twenty minutes What ?You are a master.
Karen your teaching technique reminds me of the great mentor I had. A great painting , the greens in the trees could have been repeated in the foreground grasses they are a bit isolated. Repeats in the fore ground grasses would unify the painting.20 minutes WHAT ? Great work.
Happy New Year Karen, a very beautiful work of art, and even nine minutes into the painting it would be complete for many minimalist or abstract artists, but you continued and did a wonderful job. Though totally unlike Rembrandt's realism, and as a compliment, I now pronounce you the "Rembrant" of pastel painting. Kudos!
Karen, hope all is well. Been having a VERY tough year and was remembering how at peace my soul feels when I watch you paint in pastels. So that's what I'm doing, watching your work. Was wondering if I could use a pool noodle to do the blending as opposed to the pipe insulation. Also, when you are traveling out in nature, do you look at a scene and think of it in layers on your sanded paper? Because of you, I am finding myself doing that! LOL You are truly a gifted pasteler.
Wonderful to see what you accomplish in just twenty minutes. i am going to give this kind of painting a try. I always make rather elaborate paintings. Happy New Year!
Love this one, it's so fresh! I wonder in 2022 if you may do a demo in Oils?? :-) would love to see you paint an oil too. You're a master pastelist, sheer perfection!
happy and safe 2022 to you and all 'yours". I hope you know how great your videos are, not just the painting teaching etc which is great, but how you come across really cheer does me up in these difficult times !
Happy New Year, Karen! Your relaxed style has always been my mainstay and mantra from the beginning! You're a great teacher and folks can easily incorporate your lessons into their own technique and style. I know you've been a great influence on me! Thank you, so much for the beautiful works I've seen in person and here on youtube from you! Your work is amazing and I am forever grateful to you for sharing your gift!
Thank you for a fabulous demonstration! I am new to pastel painting but have already realised that the quality of soft pastels and paper one uses is important - what would you recommend that won’t break the bank?
Thanks so much for watching my video! I would recommend getting some harder pastels such as Nupastels or Rembrandts as well as softer ones. I love the Sennelier Paris half stick set. These are very soft but give you a good variety of colors and values. Unison pastels are also great soft pastels and also offer a half stick set. Rembrandt has 1/2 stick sets as well. Any of these sets would give you a great start!
I’m trying this 20 minute painting. So far it’s taken me two hours loll
Loh😂😂
😂😂I know, right?
13:11 the painting comes through you and not from you. A synchronous zone. Great stuff, very informative and inspiring.
So much fun looking! So beautiful result, wow 🤩
I love the way you took an incredibly boring reference photo and turned it into something so beautiful. The power of creativity…
And you did it in 20 minutes
I find it so helpful how you explain the process of composition, colour and tone, thank you
I loved this! I especially appreciate how you interpret rather than duplicate the reference photo.
Thank you very much!!!
You make this look effortless.
Thanks!! I appreciate you watching!
I love the way you break down the steps to make pastel painting accessible to those of us learning. I treated myself to your Terry Ludwig set. I look at my mailbox every day hoping they have come!
Wonderful! Thank you so much for choosing my set and watching my videos!
I decided I wanted to try my hand at my grandmother’s beautiful set of pastels which are now 50+ years old, so I turned your video on to give me a jumping off point. Wow! What a find. Your painting is amazing and your interpretation of the original reference really lovely. I so happy I found your channel and can’t wait to follow you. Thank you for sharing your talent.
I watch. I listen. I think I understand.
But what you do and why is still a great mystery to me.
Excellent Karen. Love the 20 minute lesson. Very straight to the point. You make it look so easy. Thank you.
Thanks for your feedback!
Alaways a pure joy to watch a new pastel video from you! Even if I do not like what I paint for now!
Thank you so much 😀
At the end of the 7 minute mark your painting reminded me of a William Turner painting...one of my very favorite artists. Amazing how you take such a drab picture and bring it to life with color.
Thank you Sharon!
You make it look so simple but when I try it, it’s definitely not. You are gifted - and such a generous teacher sharing your talent and knowledge. Thank you, Karen. You give me such joy - and hope
Thank you very much for the kind words!!!
Thank you, Karen. I always find your painting tutorials very helpful. You give a lot of info in 21 minutes. And a nice painting
Karen!! You are a freaking GODDESS! I absolutely LOVE the way you pastel! You have so inspired me! Bless you, goddess!! LOL
I am amazed at the beauty you added to that boring old field! I too want to give this one a shot. It will probably take me a week! Lol
Looks great! As someone with ADHD and someone who gets stuck in the details, the 20 minute idea is very smart.
Hi, I just created this, my first pastel painting, turned out pretty well, I'm a watercolor artist. They sure are a lot more forgiving than watercolors! But I painted with the vacuum at my side. 😁
Welcome to the wonderful world of pastels!! Thanks for watching!
Lovely tutorial. Thank you.
Your painting was much more beautiful and dynamic than the photo you had for inspiration. Your use of the colors really made the picture come to life and turned what was a rather boring looking field into something beautiful. I have inherited my Mom's art supplies and among them was a box of soft pastels. I am hoping to learn how to use them to make beautiful paintings, myself.
Thank you so much 😀
Wonderful gift to my artist development
gorgeous pallete..has a real mid century vibe
Thank you!!
I want to try this! You are a wonderful teacher and I loved listening to you and your paint language
Thank you so much!
Thank you for this. Describing the theoretical aspects of what you were trying to achieve in each moment of the painting while showing what you were doing was very useful. I benefited a lot from this video.
A lot of great info and painting for my beginner pastel class I am teaching. You have a loose style I like. Thank You!
Thankyou Karen - really useful how you explained leading the eye around the painting 😊
Je viens juste de le voir. Bravo Karen, c’est magnifique!
This is beautiful! You inspired me to paint a few snowmen. They were fun, simple and easy. I’m a senior citizen on break from my art classes and I didn’t want to rust. I enjoy watching you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Happy New Year!
Wonderful! I'm so happy you had fun with them!
!!!!! Completely gorgeous ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I've been using charcoal and I've been wanting to experiment with pastels. They're so intimidating for some reason! Thanks for the video!
So lovely, as always! I see a heart in purple in the sky on the left hand side. I think it is a sign from my mom who passed away in November. She was a watercolor artist and was so happy that I took up painting in the last few years. Perhaps I'm just looking for it, but I think it is a sign through your beautiful painting. ❤
Thank you Bonnie! I didn't notice the heart until you pointed it out so it must be there for you!!
So good to see you and your creations. Thank you so much for sharing and inspiring. Have a wonderful 2022 Karen. By the way, I took this advise from another video of yours, of using the same pallette, and I've painted 2 Completely different scenes. One a winter landscape and another just huge clouds in the sky. I hated the first one and I am loving the clouds. If I had put the pallette away It would have been just a waste of time picking it up. I thought of what you said and voila a painting that I am so happy with, and it's not even done yet. Thanks again!😘
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience!
Can’t wait to give this 20 minute process a try!
This was wonderful!! Thanks for walking us through one of these paintings from beginning to end. It really helped me understand how these are done and how to begin myself
gorgeous! thank you, so fun to watch it come together!!
You are so talented. The idea of putting multiple colors of same values certainly does make for interesting look. It’s so beautiful before you even finish. You just know perfectly what color to put where and it’s appearance is incredibly appealing. I truly enjoy watching you turn these creation from the opposite colors one would expect to see…. Into a gorgeous piece of artwork. You and your process amazes me. Thank you for sharing your thought process as you paint.
Thank you for your kind words. I hope you are inspired to paint!!
You are a very good fun teacher. Awesome!
really does cheer me up
Your Patreon channel is the best deal going! I love this 20 min painting.
Wow, thank you! I appreciate your support!!
The essence of the pastel technique. And all this in 20 minutes. Maestro! Happy New Year. 🪶
Thank you!
Just WOW ! Love Monet and painterly impressionism and I just watched this AMAZING illustration of how loose it can be - THANKS
Thank you for your comment! I appreciate you watching!
I love your process!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful and very calming painting. Thank you. Myst get my pastels back out again.
Thank you for watching!!
I loved this! Thanks for sharing your tips.
Excellent. like always but better..Happy New Year God bless you and all your patrions..
Happy new year! Thank you very much!
Thank you for a very enjoyable lesson !
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for choosing to watch it!
I am inspired by this 20 min. painting you did. It is so vibrant; it really sings! I’m going to be exhibiting my paintings at the senior community where I live in
Tucson, Arizona. These are a variety of media leading up to my recent passion for pastels. Once the show is mounted, I plan on making some small paintings
and completing the commission of an 18x24” pastel of a French Poodle. I did a 9x12 preliminary painting which I am using as a guide for the larger version.
Wonderful! I am happy to share with you! Good luck with your show!
What an expressive picture !!!! Like !!!
Thank you so much!
Great
Well done
Nice work. I do really enjoyed its growing up. But, I'd say you make it complicated rather than "just" simple. May be due to the multiple color overlaps you "professionally" used. Thanks for sharing this beauty .
Thank you for your feedback! I do break down how I layer color in other videos and lessons!
This was great. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have been watching you for years and I admire your painting, I am also like you, only I am an amateur this year and last year we experienced years of misery and pain, I wish the new year to bring you health and to do what your heart desires, thank you for everything you offer with your painting =Athens /Greece
Thank you so much for your kind words! I appreciate you watching my videos!
I like your easy style in the ssame way i sdmire lorenzo chavez.it looks sp simple,yet the end result is always. Great!!
Thank you very much!
Karen you are a great painter. One thing I see that you could have done. The greens are isolated a few marks of green in the fore ground grasses would unify the painting. Twenty minutes What ?You are a master.
Incredible!
Thank you!
Really enjoy the images you paint and how you explain, Wonderful
Thank you very much!
So inspirational! Thanks for this great video :)
You are very talented thank u for sharing
Beautiful!
Thank you!
I e been pasteling for a week lol a fantastic art style that I'm not used to
I love that painting so much! One of your prettiest to me because colorful and full of life!
Thank you so much 😀
Fantastic!
Great colors...I love it! Thank you,Karen
Thank you so much!
Loved the colours.
Happy New Year Karen thank you for your wonderful videos.
Happy new year! Thanks for watching them!
This is not a painting, it is a poem! :-) Great, I love it !
Thank you so much 😀
Thank you
Karen your teaching technique reminds me of the great mentor I had. A great painting , the greens in the trees could have been repeated in the foreground grasses they are a bit isolated. Repeats in the fore ground grasses would unify the painting.20 minutes WHAT ? Great work.
Thank you so much for your feedback! I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
absolutely stunning work!
Happy New Year Karen, a very beautiful work of art, and even nine minutes into the painting it would be complete for many minimalist or abstract artists, but you continued and did a wonderful job. Though totally unlike Rembrandt's realism, and as a compliment, I now pronounce you the "Rembrant" of pastel painting. Kudos!
Happy new year John! I appreciate your kind words!!
Amazing.
Karen, hope all is well. Been having a VERY tough year and was remembering how at peace my soul feels when I watch you paint in pastels. So that's what I'm doing, watching your work. Was wondering if I could use a pool noodle to do the blending as opposed to the pipe insulation. Also, when you are traveling out in nature, do you look at a scene and think of it in layers on your sanded paper? Because of you, I am finding myself doing that! LOL You are truly a gifted pasteler.
Loved this lesson...thank you:)
Learn so much with every video. Your marks are stunning, full of energy and life and yet so nicely controlled.
Thanks so much 😊
Beautiful!!!! Thanks Karen
You are so welcome!
Thankyou so much that is the first time that pastel has made sense to me I was just about to give my pastels away.
Thanks for watching! I hope you do keep them and have fun exploring them!
Great video Karen. I love your style.
Thank you so much!
Wonderful! Absolutely beautiful! Happy New Year!😍👏👏👏👏
Thank you! You too!
@@KarenMargulis 😊😊😊
Thank you! It's very helpful!
Great tutorial. I have a painting I have been procrastinating that has a lot of yellow and some distant treeline. This painting inspires me.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Wonderful to see what you accomplish in just twenty minutes. i am going to give this kind of painting a try. I always make rather elaborate paintings. Happy New Year!
You can do it! Thanks for watching!
Love this one, it's so fresh! I wonder in 2022 if you may do a demo in Oils?? :-) would love to see you paint an oil too. You're a master pastelist, sheer perfection!
Thank you for the kind words! I will do an oil demo soon!
Fabulous .......
Thanks Karen for a stunning painting. I learned a lot.
You are so welcome!
Красочно и вдохновляюще! Как мне нравятся ваши работы!
Happy new year Karen ! Thank you for your vidéos . 🙏🗼
Happy new year! Thanks for watching!
A very happy New Year Miss Karen. Very nice to see you paint for this early beginning of the year! Thanks for your sharing.
Happy new year! I am happy you are watching my videos!
beautiful
Thank you! 😊
Maravilhosa, fantástico
Happy New year Karen thanks for the lovely tutorial
Happy new year! Thanks for coming by to see my videos!
happy and safe 2022 to you and all 'yours". I hope you know how great your videos are, not just the painting teaching etc which is great, but how you come across really cheer does me up in these difficult times !
Wow, thank you! I appreciate your kind words. It is a pleasure to share with you!
Liked the painting Karen and a very happy new year.
Happy new year! Thanks for watching!
Fantastic work.
Many thanks!
Fascinating.
Happy New Year, Karen! Your relaxed style has always been my mainstay and mantra from the beginning! You're a great teacher and folks can easily incorporate your lessons into their own technique and style. I know you've been a great influence on me! Thank you, so much for the beautiful works I've seen in person and here on youtube from you! Your work is amazing and I am forever grateful to you for sharing your gift!
Happy new year!! Thank you so much for the kind words!!
Thanks for these grea5 tutorials
Thank you for a fabulous demonstration! I am new to pastel painting but have already realised that the quality of soft pastels and paper one uses is important - what would you recommend that won’t break the bank?
Thanks so much for watching my video! I would recommend getting some harder pastels such as Nupastels or Rembrandts as well as softer ones. I love the Sennelier Paris half stick set. These are very soft but give you a good variety of colors and values. Unison pastels are also great soft pastels and also offer a half stick set. Rembrandt has 1/2 stick sets as well. Any of these sets would give you a great start!
quick and perfect