Are you like the best pastel portraitist on TH-cam or what?! You are just unbelievably great! I already subscribed to your videos, can't wait to see what you're up next! p.s. is that like a white pastel marker?
@slappindajayys With large home made sticks. I give u a trick, take 2 or 3 Rembrandt or whatever brand of pastel u use and grind them in a caffee grinder then put the powder you got on a glass and rebuilt a new big stick by adding some water. beware not to add to much water. U can use this trick to mix together different colors or to make a new pastel with a lot of unusuable pieces of broken pastels. Let it dry on a heater or in a oven set very low.
Hi Gerard, You did my portrait in Vilamoura last week - it's at the framers now, having managed to get it home to England safely on the plane! So pleased with it. Have very much enjoyed looking through your website since I got home. Could you tell me what the music is accompanying this video? Cate x
FELICITACIONES GERARDO DESDE EL ECUADOR...EXCELENTE TU TRABAJO¡¡
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I suppose you talk about the black "like pen" tool. This is just a pastel holder I use to better handle the thin sticks like these from Conté or Faber Castell when they are broken or just too tiny.
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This is a big home made pastel. I use mainly very big one to cover large areas and background in a portrait.
@mjffey ... A portrait done with pastels has to be sprayed at the end. especially on velour paper. Some people use to use hairspray, this is something to avoid. You can just leave the last highlights unsprayed.
I love your work, and I LOVE the backgrounds. I'm rubish with background so most of the time I leave them out. You use velour. Do you fix it afterwards? People say it makes the pastel look flatter, but I don't see that when I fix mine. I use mainly Ashby pastels on velour and if I don't fix it the top layer will come off.
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I used mainly my home made pastels, some Rembrandt and Faber Castell for details.
Wow! Your work is amazing. I know you have a dvd out on how to paint an older person, but will you release one on painting younger people/children. Also, are you likely to do a dvd on painting black skin please?
Fabulous work as everyone said. I made a couple of observations: 1. I can see you resting your hand on the portrait while painting. Are you not afraid that it will smudge the colors? 2. In the Di Nero Portrait lesson on your site you began with the face and background. On this portrait there seems to be a slight variation. Do you change your methods often? I'm just a beginner. Many Thanks.
Hi! Super work! can i ask what kind of pastel & paper he uses?! thanks!
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@10000372 Thanks for your critic on my work. I understand you point of view about background in a classical way light/dark and a more realistic approach in my portraits. But this is not my goal. I prefer instead a modern and impressionistic way of painting portrait and i try as much as possible to keep away from a smooth aspect that one can find everywhere in many artists portraits. This is what makes my style original as you mentioned.
Your work is very original. But I would like to tell you to have better a approach and keep the background singletoned with pressure on i side ONLY.I can find your work to be better if you find a further realistic outcome. Debayan Chatterjee M.A. currently workind as a critic and visiting artist Scottsdale school of art
i am doig charcoal portraits and many people finds me pretty good... u can check out my profile there are some speed paintings of mine.. then i wanted to extend myself to such and bought those devices. but i could not painted any, i was totally out of art. WHAT IS THE SECRET???? i just spend my time with that kind of inspiring videos(#1!!) EXCELLLLEEENNT!
Fantastic! Bravo! Merci! Изюмительно Красивый портрет!!! Спасибо Вам! 💯💯💯😇💖👌🤗🍀🌹🤩
Sensacional, também sou artista plástica e estou iniciando pintura de retrato à óleo, estou aprendendo bastante e estou feliz
Rimango meravigliata del tuo lavoro,bravissimo!
Are you like the best pastel portraitist on TH-cam or what?!
You are just unbelievably great!
I already subscribed to your videos, can't wait to see what you're up next!
p.s. is that like a white pastel marker?
Wow! Shes looks like the mona lisa. Stunning! Thank you for sharing the great video :D
Gerard...Fantastic!!
@slappindajayys
With large home made sticks. I give u a trick, take 2 or 3 Rembrandt or whatever brand of pastel u use and grind them in a caffee grinder then put the powder you got on a glass and rebuilt a new big stick by adding some water. beware not to add to much water. U can use this trick to mix together different colors or to make a new pastel with a lot of unusuable pieces of broken pastels. Let it dry on a heater or in a oven set very low.
fantastic as usual Gerard!
kevin
Hi Gerard,
You did my portrait in Vilamoura last week - it's at the framers now, having managed to get it home to England safely on the plane! So pleased with it.
Have very much enjoyed looking through your website since I got home.
Could you tell me what the music is accompanying this video?
Cate x
Beautyful art pastel color work
Excelent video .Thank you very much for sharing.Your work is great!
it is WONDERFUL... wow....
FELICITACIONES GERARDO DESDE EL ECUADOR...EXCELENTE TU TRABAJO¡¡
I suppose you talk about the black "like pen" tool. This is just a pastel holder I use to better handle the thin sticks like these from Conté or Faber Castell when they are broken or just too tiny.
This is a big home made pastel. I use mainly very big one to cover large areas and background in a portrait.
Master Piece! Superb! Wish I could draw like this :)
i think i'v e seen some of your other videos as well luv them i do pastel portraits as well
awesome...!this is nice....!
@mjffey ... A portrait done with pastels has to be sprayed at the end. especially on velour paper. Some people use to use hairspray, this is something to avoid. You can just leave the last highlights unsprayed.
fantastic Gerard hey what size velour is that?
See comments above... I don't blend colors on Velour paper just superimpose them.
Crap, you're good! What do you use to make your own pastels??? you're incredible
I love your work, and I LOVE the backgrounds. I'm rubish with background so most of the time I leave them out. You use velour. Do you fix it afterwards? People say it makes the pastel look flatter, but I don't see that when I fix mine. I use mainly Ashby pastels on velour and if I don't fix it the top layer will come off.
I used mainly my home made pastels, some Rembrandt and Faber Castell for details.
BEAUTIFULLLLL
AMAZING..
Wow! Your work is amazing. I know you have a dvd out on how to paint an older person, but will you release one on painting younger people/children. Also, are you likely to do a dvd on painting black skin please?
beautiful work!!!
Fabulous work as everyone said. I made a couple of observations:
1. I can see you resting your hand on the portrait while painting. Are you not afraid that it will smudge the colors?
2. In the Di Nero Portrait lesson on your site you began with the face and background. On this portrait there seems to be a slight variation. Do you change your methods often?
I'm just a beginner. Many Thanks.
WOW !!!
hi,many compliments!
can you tell me what's the big color white that you use to do the light in the eyes?
thank you
sorry for my english XD
Beautiful........
Hi!
Super work! can i ask what kind of pastel & paper he uses?! thanks!
@10000372 Thanks for your critic on my work. I understand you point of view about background in a classical way light/dark and a more realistic approach in my portraits. But this is not my goal. I prefer instead a modern and impressionistic way of painting portrait and i try as much as possible to keep away from a smooth aspect that one can find everywhere in many artists portraits. This is what makes my style original as you mentioned.
Your work is very original. But I would like to tell you to have better a approach and keep the background singletoned with pressure on i side ONLY.I can find your work to be better if you find a further realistic outcome.
Debayan Chatterjee
M.A. currently workind as a critic and visiting artist
Scottsdale school of art
do your home made pastels work more like oil, soft, or chalk pastels?
coooooooooooooooooooooooL!!
What's that black cube thing? Is that a sponge or a big chunck of pastel?
Wonderful baby
I use velour paper from hahnemuelhe, german paper.
Oh right, it just seemed you didn't like it at first. How would you like it to improve?
MOLTO BELLO
Which fixative are you use? After done portrait
Ciao Mineo, io adopero pastel mat come carta,che ne pensi?,grazie.
what kind of paper did u use there !
do i get soft pastell pencills?
or pastell pencills ?
what name of pastells and pencills do you use to work with?
how do you block in large areas of colour?
@TheDesdemonias
Fabercastel light grey
Why didn't you like it?
what kind of paper do you use?
50x70 cms
wow, very beautiful. nice skin tones bro. lol skin tone is so hard to do
I use velour paper from hahnemulhe
i am doig charcoal portraits and many people finds me pretty good... u can check out my profile there are some speed paintings of mine.. then i wanted to extend myself to such and bought those devices. but i could not painted any, i was totally out of art. WHAT IS THE SECRET???? i just spend my time with that kind of inspiring videos(#1!!)
EXCELLLLEEENNT!