That is so amazing how these pencils will blend out on the sanded paper with just your fingers even. They seem to lay down enough pigment to act like pastel pencils! I really like the composition of this one :)
I absolutely love watching you work in colored pencil. You make it look so much fun. I've always been shy about trying them other than touching up pieces here and there. Lovely piece as always. Thank you❤
This was so fun and inspiring!!!! I would love to see how it looks in your kitchen. It would be neat to see a video of where you put your own artwork throughout your house!
Thanks Lindsay. Looks like a lot more fun than colored pencils which I find so tedious. My ADD just can't handle how slow it goes. This piece is gorgeous. 😍💜
Beautiful composition! Loved the way you worked through the project explaining the benefits and/or shortcomings of the materials you were using. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video. I was sketching along while I watched. I was doing a still life of my cup of coffee while I sketched and woke myself up. The window was open, the birds were chirping, everything was so peaceful. Then, out of nowhere, a squirrel jumped onto my window screen next to my head and absolutely scared the crap out of me. That woke me up pretty fast. Anyway, every time I look back in my sketchbook at this coffee mug drawing, I will think of the killer squirrel. Happy Independence Day!
I love this one, and it blended out so well, even with your fingers. I would have thought the paper would tear up the pan pastel blender though, even as dense as the foam is, so that was a surprise. As for gesso, you could certainly add sand to the white gesso, but the CLEAR Gesso already has a sand-like grit to it. I use it very often for soft pastel and acrylic works, but had not thought of using colored pencils on it. I'm fairly certain it would work. Thanks for sharing this!
So fun to watch Lindsay. The added color at the end made a big difference. The tomatoes look so realistic. Beautiful work as always. TFS. Happy 4th of July to the frugal family!
I love the Procolour pencils. I'm just a colourist because my drawing sucks, but these pencils are really nice. I bought a second hand set because as you say, many bought them and didn't like them. I find they work really nicely on Amazon print paper or printer paper! I layer lightly and they just keep layering (certainly more than 5) and give me a soft, delicate finish. I want to try some sanded paper with them now so will get a few sheets and try it out. Thank you.
This turned out so nice. Why wait to frame and hang? Do it now and when you paint you can put it in your bedroom til done. Enjoy it now. Interesting to see procolour used on sanded paper with no texture just soft tool. Would love to give that a try. Anything to speed up color pencil work. Thanks for sharing. Glad you filmed this.
Found actual white #400 sandpaper at the hardware store, bought 2 sheets to experiment with since it looked similar 'artist's sanded paper'. Works well!! Not archival but I bought it to use up all my cheap pencils and photograph my work. Black #400 - 800 works well too. Live near a beach so have also mixed beach sand into clear gesso and tinted with acrylics. Not tried it but builder's sand also works. Do use Art Spectrum ColourFix paper for my 'serious' work, nice product!! Lovely drawing Lindsay!!!! TFS!!
I use Liquitex Clear Gesso to create extra layers when I don't use Pastelmat. I'll create an underpainting on regular Ingres paper; spray it with fixitive (Sennelier) and then paint a coating of Liquitex. It creates a sanded surface and allows you to put more layers on your painting.
"Eating a good pizza is divine,matter of fact,down right delicious. Painting a pizza however is a daily reminder,ok I'm hungry." So beautiful Lindsay.❤🥂🙂👍🍷
I've never used spectra fix but I have used liquitex clear surface prep gesso . Once dry it feels like fine grit sand paper. I tried it because sanded papers are so expensive and this was way cheaper. It's worth a try
Love how this turned out! Have you ever done a video on how to move from following tutorials to creating your own original art? I’d love to be able to do that one day!
I love this piece! I wanted to try this today, but I don't have sanded paper. I will give it a go when I get some . So glad your pizza turned out well the other day. Today I used my pencils to do the apples in the cellophane bag that you did awhile back. Oh it turned out so cute....love your tutorials. Thanks Lindsay. Happy 4th!
I love this painting. It would great in a pizzeria! Also, I have some Lyra Rembrant colored pencils that are rather hard. I have some sanded paper, I think I'll try them on that. Great video!
Lovely work, and I am just stunned looking at how well those pencils blend. Did I get that right, you are only using the little spongething, no blending medium? Does blending these pencils only work so well on the sanded paper, or are they always like that?
Always enjoyable to watch you create. I think you may be thinking of Art Spectrum Colourfix. I haven't used it personally, but from what I have read it matches with what you were describing. I've personally used Golden pastel ground to make a sanded surface. Doesn't feel as sandy as uart but maybe I should have applied more than one coat of it. I don't use colored pencils often, just aspire to doing more pastel paintings.
100% with you on the cranberry red! Although I'm leaning more towards deep plum these days, much to my husband's horror 😋. Absolutely love your drawing, might try a bit of that sanded paper if I get brave enough. Thanks!
I always learn - I do not know much about sanded paper.....your artwork is delicious :) All of your recent pizza talk has lead me to know that I must have one - even though my little cottage on the lake is 20+ miles away from civilization - grocery or pizzeria
I recommend that video too... my favorite is to use water color paper (cellulose paper works great for this too - I don't think more expensive cotton paper would give you any benifit here, paint it a solid color in water color to tone the paper or sometimes a rough background, and use liquetex clear gesso - the clear gesso is the one with the sand grit...
What cool pencils! So they are really like an oil pastel pencil? I love how this came together spontaneously rather than a big plan with a big sketch. So fun! Now I want pizza!
Ha ha! I just watched a tutorial last night about making your own sanded paper. It was from @Fine Art for Christ. The product she used was by Golden and it’s called acrylic ground for pastels. The video is called “How to make your own pastelmat step by step with minimal supplies.” I am so stunned that you can blend those pencils out with nothing but pressure. Amazing! Would you be interested in making prints of this? It would look good in anyones kitchen, but my aunt has a red themed kitchen and this would be so perfect.
Yummy Lindsay! This looks so good! Waiting on my Paul Rueben oil pastels and I just got my Shuttle art ones yesterdayi that were about 10.00 from another of your post, those are so creamy too! I love them quite a lot, so much fun for an inexpensive medium!
Thanks for the eye candy, Lindsay! Were you referencing Art Spectrum's ColorFix Primer? They make that primer in all the colours of their prepped sheets, but the primer makes it easy to make your own pastel surface. I use their prepped sheets as I'm lazy. 😜 Seriously though, Art Spectrum makes a quality surface for Pastels and CP!
I love them on sanded paper or for sharp edges but I find them less enjoyable on normal drawing paper. That said i like how fast I can do a sketch in drawing paper. I just prefer a soft smudgy pencil feel generally.
Have you seen lachri fine arts discovery about the uart paper?!?! Mind blowing! It’s not archival on the front bc of how they package it just thought I would let you know bc I see you using it a lot! Is there another type of sanded paper? Or is uart the only one? This is amazing btw I would love to play around with sanded paper
Yum…. Makes me hungry! Have wanted to try sanded paper…. and I have a small set of polychromos. Would those pencils be roughly the same? (I’ll go watch your review in a sec, but I can’t buy anymore pencils at the moment!)
So vibrant and delicious looking! This makes me hungry. XD it’s probably time to make lunch. I hope the sanded paper doesn’t fade or damage your artwork! I wonder if like, a little bit of acid is okay? Eh, if they say they are acid free they should be true to their word. Happy 4th of July btw!
I wonder if the spiky green not-basil might be arugula? I have that on my pizza a lot, it's often paired with salami on pizzas over here. But arugula tends to be larger. Hm. And now I want pizza lmao 😅 I love the tomatoes, they look so good. I've seen talk abou UART sanded paper curling over at the Monet Café YT channel as well - good to know that it's a general issue, not just something local to her (e.g. humid climate or something). I still want to try it though, I want to get hold of their trial pack!
I think you might be my art spirit animal. (Hope this didn't upset you) We get annoyed (?) with the same things. The pencil cases with the individual slots. There have been other things. The pizza looks great.
You picture looks very eatable, pencils wow they look like a soft pastel but without the dust! Lol I want some on the thought of, I must dust less. Thank for a great look at these pencils.
That is so amazing how these pencils will blend out on the sanded paper with just your fingers even. They seem to lay down enough pigment to act like pastel pencils! I really like the composition of this one :)
Thanks! They wear so slowly too!
I’m so glad you will be hanging this in your kitchen, it’s such a fun piece. Thanks for sharing the process and your thoughts on the pencils.
I absolutely love watching you work in colored pencil. You make it look so much fun. I've always been shy about trying them other than touching up pieces here and there. Lovely piece as always. Thank you❤
This was so fun and inspiring!!!! I would love to see how it looks in your kitchen. It would be neat to see a video of where you put your own artwork throughout your house!
Thanks Lindsay. Looks like a lot more fun than colored pencils which I find so tedious. My ADD just can't handle how slow it goes. This piece is gorgeous. 😍💜
I never thought to try pastelmat but that might make these easier. Thank you so much!
Beautiful composition! Loved the way you worked through the project explaining the benefits and/or shortcomings of the materials you were using. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video. I was sketching along while I watched. I was doing a still life of my cup of coffee while I sketched and woke myself up. The window was open, the birds were chirping, everything was so peaceful. Then, out of nowhere, a squirrel jumped onto my window screen next to my head and absolutely scared the crap out of me. That woke me up pretty fast. Anyway, every time I look back in my sketchbook at this coffee mug drawing, I will think of the killer squirrel. Happy Independence Day!
That would be memorable!
I love this one, and it blended out so well, even with your fingers. I would have thought the paper would tear up the pan pastel blender though, even as dense as the foam is, so that was a surprise. As for gesso, you could certainly add sand to the white gesso, but the CLEAR Gesso already has a sand-like grit to it. I use it very often for soft pastel and acrylic works, but had not thought of using colored pencils on it. I'm fairly certain it would work. Thanks for sharing this!
So fun to watch Lindsay. The added color at the end made a big difference. The tomatoes look so realistic. Beautiful work as always. TFS. Happy 4th of July to the frugal family!
I love the Procolour pencils. I'm just a colourist because my drawing sucks, but these pencils are really nice. I bought a second hand set because as you say, many bought them and didn't like them. I find they work really nicely on Amazon print paper or printer paper! I layer lightly and they just keep layering (certainly more than 5) and give me a soft, delicate finish. I want to try some sanded paper with them now so will get a few sheets and try it out. Thank you.
Such a great painting love how those color pencils work! Love how the final piece turned out! Also I think the leafy bits might be arugula! 😊
This turned out so nice. Why wait to frame and hang? Do it now and when you paint you can put it in your bedroom til done. Enjoy it now. Interesting to see procolour used on sanded paper with no texture just soft tool. Would love to give that a try. Anything to speed up color pencil work. Thanks for sharing. Glad you filmed this.
Found actual white #400 sandpaper at the hardware store, bought 2 sheets to experiment with since it looked similar 'artist's sanded paper'. Works well!!
Not archival but I bought it to use up all my cheap pencils and photograph my work. Black #400 - 800 works well too. Live near a beach so have also mixed beach sand into clear gesso and tinted with acrylics. Not tried it but builder's sand also works. Do use Art Spectrum ColourFix paper for my 'serious' work, nice product!! Lovely drawing Lindsay!!!! TFS!!
I use Liquitex Clear Gesso to create extra layers when I don't use Pastelmat. I'll create an underpainting on regular Ingres paper; spray it with fixitive (Sennelier) and then paint a coating of Liquitex. It creates a sanded surface and allows you to put more layers on your painting.
It was very enjoyable to watch. It looks beautiful.
Fantastic drawing, Lindsay! Looks good enough to eat. I like the sanded paper with these pencils, too. Tfs.
Thanks Lindsay!
"Eating a good pizza is divine,matter of fact,down right delicious. Painting a pizza however is a daily reminder,ok I'm hungry."
So beautiful Lindsay.❤🥂🙂👍🍷
I've never used spectra fix but I have used liquitex clear surface prep gesso . Once dry it feels like fine grit sand paper. I tried it because sanded papers are so expensive and this was way cheaper. It's worth a try
Such a realistic one
This is just beautiful Lindsay! Glad you recorded it for us :)
This is one of my favorite works you have done! I love cranberry red too!
Thanks so much!
Turned out wonderful. It's going to look lovely in the kitchen.
That’s just so fun. I love when you paint food!
Love how this turned out! Have you ever done a video on how to move from following tutorials to creating your own original art? I’d love to be able to do that one day!
Good idea!
That is going to be a great artwork for your kitchen. I love it! Fun to watch the process and learn about sanded pastel paper.
I love this piece! I wanted to try this today, but I don't have sanded paper. I will give it a go when I get some . So glad your pizza turned out well the other day. Today I used my pencils to do the apples in the cellophane bag that you did awhile back. Oh it turned out so cute....love your tutorials. Thanks Lindsay. Happy 4th!
For experimenting you can use 400 or 500 grit sandpaper
@@thefrugalcrafter I'm going to get me some!
I love this painting. It would great in a pizzeria! Also, I have some Lyra Rembrant colored pencils that are rather hard. I have some sanded paper, I think I'll try them on that. Great video!
Love that wood texture!
Art spectrum makes a colourfix primer for pastel. It comes in many colors, I haven’t used it but there are a few pastel artists that use it.
Lovely work, and I am just stunned looking at how well those pencils blend. Did I get that right, you are only using the little spongething, no blending medium? Does blending these pencils only work so well on the sanded paper, or are they always like that?
I just used the sponge and yes the sanded paper is key
I love this one as I LOVE pizza. It would be great to try this in watercolor too.
That is so nice! Thank you for sharing
Always enjoyable to watch you create. I think you may be thinking of Art Spectrum Colourfix. I haven't used it personally, but from what I have read it matches with what you were describing. I've personally used Golden pastel ground to make a sanded surface. Doesn't feel as sandy as uart but maybe I should have applied more than one coat of it. I don't use colored pencils often, just aspire to doing more pastel paintings.
Thanks!
100% with you on the cranberry red! Although I'm leaning more towards deep plum these days, much to my husband's horror 😋. Absolutely love your drawing, might try a bit of that sanded paper if I get brave enough. Thanks!
That sounds pretty!
Gorgeous...so glad to hear you are planning on hanging it in your kitchen! TFS
When you paint a wall with a dark or more saturated color use a primer that you have tinted close to the finished color. Should just take 2 coats.
I always learn - I do not know much about sanded paper.....your artwork is delicious :) All of your recent pizza talk has lead me to know that I must have one - even though my little cottage on the lake is 20+ miles away from civilization - grocery or pizzeria
Hi Lindsay. Monet Cafe has a vid where she makes 8 different pastel surfaces. Might be useful for reg colored pencil work too. :)
I recommend that video too... my favorite is to use water color paper (cellulose paper works great for this too - I don't think more expensive cotton paper would give you any benifit here, paint it a solid color in water color to tone the paper or sometimes a rough background, and use liquetex clear gesso - the clear gesso is the one with the sand grit...
Thanks! I will look for her video!
What cool pencils! So they are really like an oil pastel pencil?
I love how this came together spontaneously rather than a big plan with a big sketch. So fun!
Now I want pizza!
No, they are very hard. I have a review on my channel
Ha ha! I just watched a tutorial last night about making your own sanded paper. It was from @Fine Art for Christ. The product she used was by Golden and it’s called acrylic ground for pastels. The video is called “How to make your own pastelmat step by step with minimal supplies.”
I am so stunned that you can blend those pencils out with nothing but pressure. Amazing!
Would you be interested in making prints of this? It would look good in anyones kitchen, but my aunt has a red themed kitchen and this would be so perfect.
I've never done prints before, I'll think about it!
Use a gray primer prior to painting your kitchen red/cranberry.
What are the dark squiggles at first I thought they were olives.
Yes they are olives, I hear my Greek olives and scatter them lol
Looks delicious 😋
Yummy Lindsay! This looks so good! Waiting on my Paul Rueben oil pastels and I just got my Shuttle art ones yesterdayi that were about 10.00 from another of your post, those are so creamy too! I love them quite a lot, so much fun for an inexpensive medium!
Gorgeous really enjoyed watching you are delightful
Using a blender is a fantastic idea! I wonder if these would be good to use WITH pastels?? Love this artwork! Makes me hungry 😋
Sure, that's what it's fow
Love it! Good job!
Maybe cilantro instead of basil? Love this!
Maybe, it looks like it.
Yummy tutorial. Hmm I wonder how Polychromos would work with sanded paper? Thanks for sharing this info.
It works great!
Can you use brush and pencil fixative with the art n fly oil basedcoloured pencils?
Yes, I used it in a sunset tutorial a couple years ago.
Great job! interesting about how the procolor blends on the sanded paper. Are any other color pencils will also blend this way?
Ant harder pencils should work like this I think. Differences will wear down quickly
I love this!
You’re so talented ❤️
Thanks!
Amazing!
Delicious art.🥰🇬🇧
Thanks for the eye candy, Lindsay! Were you referencing Art Spectrum's ColorFix Primer? They make that primer in all the colours of their prepped sheets, but the primer makes it easy to make your own pastel surface. I use their prepped sheets as I'm lazy. 😜 Seriously though, Art Spectrum makes a quality surface for Pastels and CP!
It might be!
Gorgeous! How do you like Procoulor pencils?
I love them on sanded paper or for sharp edges but I find them less enjoyable on normal drawing paper. That said i like how fast I can do a sketch in drawing paper. I just prefer a soft smudgy pencil feel generally.
I am loving how the tomatoes are looking! I want to cut them up and eat them lol
Have you seen lachri fine arts discovery about the uart paper?!?! Mind blowing! It’s not archival on the front bc of how they package it just thought I would let you know bc I see you using it a lot! Is there another type of sanded paper? Or is uart the only one? This is amazing btw I would love to play around with sanded paper
Yes and it is a bummer
This is sooo effective -love it 😻
Thanks!
Yum…. Makes me hungry! Have wanted to try sanded paper…. and I have a small set of polychromos. Would those pencils be roughly the same? (I’ll go watch your review in a sec, but I can’t buy anymore pencils at the moment!)
Polychromos work well on sanded paper but they wear down quickly.
Beautiful! Makes me want pizza!
What is the brand name of the brush and pencil texture fixative?
Brush and pencil is the brand
@@thefrugalcrafter thx
So vibrant and delicious looking! This makes me hungry. XD it’s probably time to make lunch. I hope the sanded paper doesn’t fade or damage your artwork! I wonder if like, a little bit of acid is okay? Eh, if they say they are acid free they should be true to their word.
Happy 4th of July btw!
I wonder if the spiky green not-basil might be arugula? I have that on my pizza a lot, it's often paired with salami on pizzas over here. But arugula tends to be larger. Hm.
And now I want pizza lmao 😅
I love the tomatoes, they look so good. I've seen talk abou UART sanded paper curling over at the Monet Café YT channel as well - good to know that it's a general issue, not just something local to her (e.g. humid climate or something). I still want to try it though, I want to get hold of their trial pack!
I think you might be my art spirit animal. (Hope this didn't upset you) We get annoyed (?) with the same things. The pencil cases with the individual slots. There have been other things. The pizza looks great.
Watched this as i ate a pizza, seemed fitting.
You picture looks very eatable, pencils wow they look like a soft pastel but without the dust! Lol I want some on the thought of, I must dust less. Thank for a great look at these pencils.
Wow.. they almost look real.. I want to eat them!
Liked the art but put thumb down for another reason.