Your work is beautiful, and it definitely reminds me of Hopper.. The circular swirl when your Mom is cleaning the window is such a great visual metaphor for the circle of life.. Thanks for sharing..

Thanks to the Pastel Society of America for this wonderful presentation! ❤

Wow! I have admired your work for so long…but listening to you today makes your work even more meaningful to me! Thankyou !❤😊

Thank you so much. Love your work!

This was such an inspiration. Thank you!

When you have workshops in NYC

Very impressive ❤

Colette - you did a wonderful job demonstrating your approach and techniques on this painting. I found it fascinating with your perspectives on how you take photographs with an artist eye and render them into a beautiful painting without being too "fussy" in details. The entire composition somehow works very, very well. I am a beginner artist using pastels and realize that I often see the colors from a photograph too literal without seeing the other subtle colors and hues that blend into the entire picture. You have helped in how you, as an artist, can do that. You do beautiful work.

your presentation of how you set up, making notes to yourself in sketches and the blending of photographs is sooo enligthtening. Your steady concentration is another great thing to watch. Thank you very much!!!!

Photoghophy tricks

Jacob is my favorite pastel artist! He was the first artist I saw use the hot pink/orange under painting and I absolutely fell in love with that I use it in my own paintings as well now. I love his use of more local colors or more realistic colors than most artists too. I inspire to paint like him one day.

Don ‘t forget the orange leaf on the left

What surfaces can you use the alcohol on?

How many layers do you usually do?

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Fascinating

Tough watching this on a cellphone. More background than pictures. But thanks for the info.

Ahhh. Love the flowers.

Engaging.

Lyn is an incredible artist! What an eye, what a talent and a gift. Lyn's work is off the hook amazing! Wow!

I loved watching this come together. Watched every minute.

There is no way I can sit looking @ this in and out focusing for almost two hours, no matter how great the artist is.

what kind of paper you using

I hate when artists use alcohol washes. Learn to draw and use pastels a they were intended. Terrible. This is a watercolor work.

Very interesting! And I loved the tricks for choosing colors, trying out on small piece of paper, and the comments about not being able to guess the color just by looking at the pastels. I can really relate to that :) Thanks for the great video!

What a wonderful demo. Thank you so much Lyn. You are quite the inspiration. :)

Will you blend the abstract edges on the face? If not that’s OK but how would you do it if you’re not gonna do it on this portrait.? I guess I’m asking if you were doing a different portrait that you would do blending on what would you use?

This was amazing to watch! Thank you so much!!

What do you mean by 70% alcohol is the rest 30% is water

The angle of the picture is not good, we see it from the side and it is far away.

The angle of the picture is not good, we see it from the side and it is far away.

Thank you.

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you

Do we ever get a clear, still image of the reference photo?

Thank you so much Michele for this wonderful demo. I love your use of such vibrant colors.

Your work and expressions of interest in our ability to feel and understand where you are going was wonderful!! Thank you for this demonstration…. I will watch it again I’m sure!!

Your work and expressions of interest in our ability to feel and understand where you are going was wonderful!! Thank you for this demonstration…. I will watch it again I’m sure!!

Thank you Jacob! Love how you didn’t lose your focus and built your atmosphere!! Beautiful work!!!

A really valuable demo, excellent

Beautiful. It is a great tutorial,I have watched it a couple of times. Love your work.

Thank you.

WOW….This is one of the best demonstrations I have ever seen. This was packed full of valuable information, every step along the way. I will be watching this many times over to absorb as much as I can. It is so difficult to paint and teach at the same time, but she makes it look effortless. Wonderful demonstration, thank you so much for sharing!

Hi michelle

What a spectacular and delightful tutorial! I learned so much! Very grateful! Big hug!❤

I am a watercolorist but I do enjoy watching you paint and how you explain the details of your work. I not only enjoyed the demo but I learned so much also your work is just beautiful. Thank you

the painting is finished at approx 27 min, seems like almost all artist even very talented ones cant help but to continue to paint draw ..because it is so enjoyable! painting therapy: I'm all into it!

Que tipo de papel utilizas ?,podrias decir marcas??,gracias ,un saludo

Très beau travail avec beaucoup de pédagogie. Merci pour votre générosité. De Paris je vous salue.

Great video! I watched and listened carefully as i am new to pastel. I noted near the end you mentioned you mount your pastel paper to i believe you said acid free foam core. What kind of glue do you use? One reason i am slow to get started is i have a few expensive pieces of good paper and like doing things myself, so i couldn’t get past how a finished piece could be framed without ruffling up the pastel dust. Lol. I was glad to hear you cover that question by saying you mount them first. I frame my own watercolours, nothing fancy, but they look just fine, and are matted with acid free materials , using an old simple mat cutter. I have been toying with buying a used hot press, is that the kind of machine you use? Is there something i should be looking for when choosing? Ie. temperature. There are many affordable and barely used ones online. I am holding out for a larger one for more versatility. Anyways, thank you for sharing your methods, and more importantly the reasons behind your choices. Much success in your career as an artist!