A New Way to Use Inktense Blocks with Pastel Painting

[@АНДРЕЙ-а5-н12]

Beautiful colors and good teaching Thanks .It’s beautiful, Susan!

[@nh5083]

You're such a natural Susan!

[@suefortin6811]

It is really fun watching the inks work. I don’t know how you pick out colors for back ground but it really turns out beautifully

[@mjpete27]

Hey Susan, always a blast watching your videos and seeing you create your art! I enjoy seeing you innovate and create with pastels in non-traditional ways. Now if we could only figure out how to get some Terry Ludwig sticks without risking a trip to the workhouse! Or maxing out a credit card!

[@diannedupuis2960]

Love the Inktense!

[@Maria-lleriuqs]

Lovely. This reminds me of the beautiful Australian Blue Mountains. 😊

[@Sophiegirl032603]

It’s beautiful, Susan!

[@dorothyschuster367]

Beautiful. Inspirational. Wonderful!!

[@felicebetlem1866]

Great colors Susan

[@HCF62559]

Love this tutorial, thanks for such a great presentation. I like your t-shirt message too. Cheers and happy creating!!

[@arttutorialsartlessons9909]

Great tutorial. I do pastel myself, but video like this one, gives me a lot of help. All the Best!

[@catbraunwell6450]

Love inktense and am new to pastels so this was an awesome helpful video. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your techniques.

[@hisdaughter2354]

Another beautiful tutorial thanks for being such a generous teacher. Love love this blue makes it all pop💙💙💙💜💜💜

[@petrajimenez7323]

Very nice . Beautiful colors and good teaching Thanks .

[@mustafamhaji4193]

Absolutely beautiful.... Have learnt so much... Thank you.❤️

[@monetcafe]

Wonderful 👏👏👏💜💜 so glad you’re learning 😘

[@graciousmom4127]

Amazing! Your painting is beautiful than the reference, ma'am. Watched it 3x now since yesterday. ☺️

[@monetcafe]

Bless you sweetheart 💜💜💜 you are always so encouraging. Wish I could give you a big hug sister.

[@graciousmom4127]

You have always been an inspiration and a blessing to me ma'am, for many years I have been following your channel and on ig... God bless you always! 🙏😘

[@claudiajanse3773]

Can i do this on an Canvas or is this not possible. Love your lessons

[@monetcafe]

Yes, and I have a video lesson on that. You have to coat the canvas with something to add grit or texture though. I often tone my canvas first (with a nice underpainting color), let it dry, add product such as clear gesso (not regular gesso because it's white and does not have the grit that the clear does), I usually apply 2 coats and then paint with pastels. Hope that helps.

[@dauroandersonribeirorodrig3493]

Olá vc diluiu o giz pastel na água para pintar?

[@sbgribble]

Where do you buy Fisher Sanded Paper? I saw that Jackson’s has it. Is there a source in the US?

[@monetcafe]

Hi Sheila, I get my Fisher paper from www.proartpanels.com. I usually buy a pack of 10 sheets of the 400 grit. They have various sizes available.

[@pepperwoodchronicles]

I love your videos and been a fan for a long time, you mention two different types of paper, which one is it? The cheap print paper you mention in the beginning or the sanded pastel paper?

[@germana944]

Buona sera Susan. Mi piacciono molto i tuoi pastelli. Nei corsi non c’è la possibilità dei sottotitoli in italiano? Grazie

[@boxerluv54]

Hi just wondering if you keep your pastels separate in their original boxes or just mix them in a large container. Thank you.

[@monetcafe]

I do a little of both. Sometimes it takes a while to accumulate enough pastels, but when you do it’s nice to create a full workshop pallet. After you have a good working pallet though sometimes it’s nice to keep some in sets.

[@boxerluv54]

@@monetcafe thank you!!

[@susanthrom3092]

Thanks susan, I absolutely love the way you incorporate different mediums in conjunction with your pastels...Its like having a "store" or ready made inventory on hand...I do hope and pray that all is well with your family...thankyou again...

[@mary5968]

What happened to the original dark Drawing? Did you wipe the dark away?

[@monetcafe]

It’s sort of got lost when I started adding the water. But that was OK because it was just a basic guide.

[@susandobson1588]

Looks like Van Gogh! thank you!

[@monetcafe]

Oh Yay!!! I love van Gogh!

[@howlingwind1937]

Um what happened to the drawing you were doing with the nupastels, you jumped from there to the intense with a clean surface not sketched in with the nupastels.

[@ss2003utube]

😂 I just realized from watching this, it is much easier to draw trees from the bottom up! ‘ just as they grow.

[@catbraunwell6450]

Colored pencils and pastel pencils are great over inktense background too.

[@marypartridge5154]

Its great but I find the pinl in foreground makes it look cheap and males it look like a painting one would buy from a market stall.

[@monetcafe]

Ha ha…. Gotta appreciate your honesty.

[@traekas7228]

Susan? How can Pastels be ink, or what looks like Watercolors? I haven’t been painting for a couple of decades. Sooo out of touch with Artist materials and their improvements.

[@monetcafe]

Hi there, and that’s a good question but actually the intense blocks are not pastels at all but compressed ink. They work great as an under painting before adding pastels. And the way that I’m using them allows them to work a bit like watercolor as well. You could actually use watercolor to do the same thing for an under Painting. So many products! It can get confusing.

[@CCLinGameOnABC]

There is one difference between regular watercolor paint and Inktense blocks. We can actually use Inktense blocks to directly draw onto the surface, and if we add water to it, it dissolves and behaves like watercolor, AND when Inktense dries, it is permanent.

[@JeanettsFarm]

Why are you using newsprint? I would rather see this on pastel paper or watercolor paper.

[@lisathaviu1154]

She is using a sanded paper. Only the first sketch was on newsprint. Sanded paper is often, but not always, sand colored and resembles the color of newsprint, but depending on the how fine the sand is, you can add many more layers than you can on regular pastel paper. If you try and do an underpainting on regular pastel paper, it is easier to do so using rubbing alcohol since the paper will warp from water and might not straighten out even if you tape it down. I don’t know if Inktense is soluble in alcohol - I have only used the underpainting technique with pastels and alcohol or tinted pastel paper (both sanded and regular paper.) I find that the sanded paper gives the best results though. There are several brands of sanded paper, which you can get at a good art supply place like Blick or Jerry’s Artorama. Use only junky brushes though, since sanded paper will wear down a good brush.

[@monetcafe]

I just used the newsprint for the sketch… The painting was actually done on Fisher 400 sanded paper. Sorry it’s showing the sketch first was confusing.

[@meltemashley1808]

HI SUSAN🌺

[@monetcafe]

Thank you so much, @meltemashley1808! I'm so glad you liked it! Happy Painting!

[@jekaterinanemeth3052]

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