Pastel Demo: Painting on a Homemade Textured Board
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Have you wanted to make your own surfaces for pastel painting? An easy way to make a textured surface is to use clear gesso on a support such as acid free mat board or watercolor paper. In this demo I paint on a surface I prepared by toning clear gesso with yellow liquid acrylic. I give you tips for painting on the texture and how you can make it work for you!
To see a closeup photo of the finished painting as well as the directions for making the support head over to my blog. Here is the link:
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Thank you for watching my video. Let me know if you have any questions. I'd also love to share with you over on my Patreon Page. / karenmargulis
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Oh, I make my own surfaces .... chalkboard paint. Love the texture. 😊
Wonderful! I have never tried that. It sounds like a great idea. I hope you don't mind if I give it a try!
Love the texture that creates your homemade board and your painting video explanations are great. Thanks again
Thank you Karen on your video very helpful I will try this out and enjoy seeing you painting it’s amazing how you paint your painting with your pastels so thank you very much for sharing your skills with us so god bless you always.
What an enjoyable video! I've been meaning to try some homemade texture boards, this has given me renewed enthusiasm! Thank you!!
Thanks for watching! Have fun with the textured boards!
Very, very nice! Beautiful painting, excellent explanations. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this fantastic tutorial, Karen! 🙏 I struggle with landscape painting, as I am more of a animal painter. But its time to learn how to put them in their own habitat - so nature and landscapes it is now! 🎨 You are an amazing teacher, and a pure joy to watch and learn from! ✨️⚘️
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Love the texture that comes through so painterly great video and beautiful painting thank you!
I need to get some gator board. I just discovered the joy that is gessoing my sketchbook paper and old student grade pastel papers. I have to try this, thank you for sharing 💗
You have my appreciation and admiration. Thank you for being such a generous teacher. xo
Thanks Karen. I appreciate the advice re creating depth and the importance of a "z" shape to lead the viewer's eye. . Important foundation knowledge that can be forgotten with lack of practice. Thank you for another very helpful video. I love your little wheat fields painting.
Wonderful tutorial and painting. Loved seeing how you created your own surface and the effects achieved. Thanks!
Thanks so much 😊
I hope to create some of my own surfaces for future paintings! I did purchase some gesso as well as some pumice. I am going to check out your blog for more information. Thank you for sharing your expertise and your knowledge about pastels!
Great tip re stalks and heads of wheat. More and more understanding of dirt. Distance and depth 👍. Use of lights and dark another 👍. Thank you for your advice ❤ your work 👏👏❤
If a more uniform smoothness is desired, I use a small foam roller to apply the clear gesso.
Of course, you can use the roller on some areas of the board and brush strokes where you want more uneven texture.
Also, often clouds will form around and above distant mountains.
I've been watching and learning now for a few weeks. I love the way that your process leads to a finished piece. I'm not quite brave enough to do this as I find it difficult to visualise what I want as a final product. I don't have any art theory or depth of knowledge. But .... I love what I'm seeing. Thank you.
Thank you very much! I appreciate you watching. I am happy to share what I have learned!
Beautiful! It reminds me of the fields of my childhood 🙂
This has been absolutely More then helpful. I made some surfaces using the Golden Fine Pumice Gel and was really struggling with that texture. I was fighting it, instead of embracing it as you suggest in your perfectly timed video. I was all but ready to give the surfaces I made to the grand kids to paint on. I am so glad I waited! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I am heading to give it another go right now. God Bless You Pretty Lady! Much Love and Respect as always from North Carolina, Stacy
Thank you!!! I appreciate you watching!
Thank you so much! Very very helpful this video! I like the idea of the Z on the fields!
Beautiful
That is quite beautiful!!
Thanks so much! Very Helpful!
Gorgeous!!!!!!!!! ❤️
Thank you!!
You help so much thanks!
Loved this video!
I´ll really have a try on this. Thank´s for sharing!
That was very helpful to me. Thank you.
THIS IS SO AMAZING HOW YOU CREATE WITH SIMPLE STROKES SUCH AN AWESOME PAINTING....TFS:)...DO YOU HAVE A VIDEO HOW TO MAKE THOSE HOMEMADE BOARDS...MANY THANKS.....
Lovely work! I am going to tru this!👍❤️
Thank you Karen for the marvellous demonstration. That surface texture adds a new dimension to pastel painting. Exciting!
I’ve tried several grounds to create a surface that brings out the best in my pastels. Enjoyed Golden’s “Fine Pumice Gel”, it’s very fine with a pliancy which was nice. Golden’s “Acrylic Ground for Pastels” wore out my pastels too fast! Liquitex Clear Gesso was pretty good, but hard on fingers… I’ve also tried lightly sanding the last two and that created a new surface again but did not allow for many layers.
The main thing was I enjoyed experimenting and will continue to do so.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your experiences with us. I will have to give the Fine Pumice Gel a try!
Beautiful!
Another wonderful helpful video full of tips and tricks to embrace when I eventually get around to preparing my own boards, the only item that did distract me I hope you don't mind is the furthest most tree on the left is a perfect box shape and I kept waiting for you to cut into it but hey who am I
Thanks for watching and commenting. I did notice the box tree and it was fixed. Check out the blog post on the finished painting. Link in description. Thanks again!
Had a look thank you very much
Brilliant!
Very helpful. Thank you
I just want to say thank you!
Fantastic Karen. Greetings from Barcelona. Love the colours of the wheat field. I watch all of your pastel videos and have found them so useful. I have a question: when you prepare the surface with the clear gesso and paint brush do you use very free brush strokes or go from top to bottom or side to side? Also do you ever use any other surface primer? I hear fine pumice gel is good.
Thanks for a great question. I do random brush strokes because I like random texture but you could be more precise or even apply with a foam roller for smoother texture.
Why didn't you start with dirt color at the beginning for the grass area..? btw, what an enjoyable video, thank you... :
Perfection!!!
Thank you!!
Thank you from Southeast Texas. This video is so fine. Question have you ever put pumice gel on a linen canvas to use as your pastel support? You are soo creative and do not seem afraid to try “what if” Really enjoyed the art you shared on Facebook last week, and your process was amazing. You are a joy to watch esp listening to your explanations of what you are doing and why. Jane Martin
Hi Karen, Hello from the UK. Thank you for such a great demo, I really enjoyed it and I shall be trying out your new techniques shortly. :) One question I have is: do the pastels adhere/anchor quite well with this type of surface? I'm guessing that they probably do as there is a texture, but does the surface need setting with any spays afterwards?
Thanks for watching! The pastels adheres well to the texture without spray however it will skip over the grooves so I often rub in my first layers so that I don't have distracting bits of paper color in the painting.
I worked on a textured surface last night and wished I had watched this first, it’s beautiful. I had trouble with layering, it seemed the pastel just sat on the surface. Do you spray this when done to keep it from falling off?
Beautiful!Is it possible to know the sheet size please?
Thank you for sharing your techniques! My pastels don't seem to adhere to the paper as well as yours. What brand of pastels would you recommend? Currently I am using Faber Castell, but they don't seem soft enough.
Chris Ortiz I don’t have a lot of experience, I have found the Fabre pastels a medium hardness. Look into a real soft pastel, you don’t have to break the bank with Schmincke or Sennelier, Mungyo has A very nice handmade pastel and their soft pastels are nice too! Black has a house pastel that is kinda like a Rembrandt. I have found these better/softer than the Faber sticks.
What kind of pastel pencil do you use? Thanks
I rarely use pastel pencils but when I do I choose from an old stash I have of Stabilo and Koh I Noor pastel pencils.Lately I just use hard pastels such as Nupastel for detail.
Why wouldn’t regular foam board work (instead of gator board)?
Love your demo's, just your camera operator needs some lessons.