FIXING MISTAKES AND MAKING CHANGES IN WAX & OIL PASTELS

Paint with me and see how I make decisions, fix problems, overcome things going wrong as I sketch. I also show you how I make a change in one of my oil pastel drawings that's really easy to do but makes a big difference. In the first painting I use my new Caran D' Ache Neocolor II wax pastels and in the second painting I use my Senneilier oil pastels. At the end I share several paintings and sketches I've done in oil and wax pastels.
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[@roseannehebert3682]

Not wacky to me, I am just loving it. Thank you so much!

[@julieknudsen6297]

Sandi you are so fun and full of joy. I thank God for you. Watching your videos is my comfort food.

[@sandihester]

Awe - thank you Julie!!!

[@jamiemorris3526]

I’m so grateful for your videos! You’re helping me to move past some of my creative fears and make more work! 🌼🌻💐

[@sandihester]

I’m so glad to hear that Jamie!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@lynnboyd33]

Sandi, what adorable and amazing works of art. Thank you so much for showing us your technique as well as being bold enough to screw up while filming yourself, and then crawling back out of it. Thank you so much, for being so real!

[@sandihester]

Thanks Lynn - I'm thankful to have this "space" to show what it really looks like to be an artist - ups and the downs

[@annevai]

Try to not think about what your brain tells you. That’s a golden nugget of advice for being creative! I’m going to put it on a post it above my desk 👍🏽. Great video as always!

[@sandihester]

Thank you!!

[@wendytaylor1486]

Sandi,just got a Derwent inktense outliner pencil,it’s soooo useful,I tend to use it to look like inaccurate guidelines,it is waterproof and lays down either a lightweight line or heavy just as you want,I can go over it with Matt acrylic and it doesn’t budge,a welcome addition to my art stuff x

[@sandihester]

Ohhhhh, that’s interesting!

[@KittehNow]

This was so enjoyable...learned a lot and loved watching the process...I have really started letting go of " being precious" , and I've stopped focusing on the result. It has made being in my art room exciting and fresh. I feel like I was in a rut and your content has awakened and enlivened my approach and attitude. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for you HARD work and many hours of yourself that you share here.

[@sandihester]

🥰 thank you!

[@jasperlotushawkins7607]

I love your work so much and enjoying watching your process. Thank you for your generosity of spirit. 🙂🙏🏽⭐️

[@sandihester]

Jasper I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I never know if this type of video is boring or not 😂

[@KittehNow]

Excellent comment, Jasper😉

[@lleehome]

I am having so much fun binging your videos. Love seeing how you work

[@sandihester]

Thank you Linda!! So glad you’re enjoying them!!!

[@helloamyholt]

I know I’m binging 2 year old content, but some of your face work in this video is SO cool, Sandi!

[@sandihester]

Thank you Amy!

[@jessbutterfly9801]

I saw your tip with the past hours of how to remember which ones you’re using or thinking about I thought I was the only one that did this. I flip mine in the opposite direction for the ones that I’m using. I don’t feel like a crazy person any more.

[@shoonge]

Sandi your gorgeous works are super inspiring 👏👏👏😍 I love your loose approach to work and your loose style makes viewers eyes pleasing thank you again for awesome video 🙏

[@sandihester]

Well goodness - thank you!!! I’m so glad you are enjoying them - thank you for taking the time to let me know!!!

[@joanzivi7425]

Wow! This is so helpful - seeing how you fix parts of artworks that you feel need help. I love seeing your process and your artwork!

[@sandihester]

Glad it was helpful! I think you'll find a lot of my videos do this - capture me trying to figure things out and letting you guys 'watch' me do that.

[@kristinaalvinasophiajonass5798]

Sometimes the kind of fear of making mistakes inhibites the joyfull process of making art, so thank you so much for making this video. I can really use your tips. 🙏 And then I also love the face and the process of making it. 😍

[@sandihester]

So glad to hear it was helpful Kristina!

[@gelpen26]

It's BEAUTIFUL! I ENJOY (SO VERY MUCH) YOUR videos and how you keep on working through the page!

[@sandihester]

Thank you! I'm soooooo glad you're enjoying the videos!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@sweethomes674]

Love the colors and ideas☕️🪴

[@denisecope]

This was one of my favorite of all your videos. Thanks for sharing your process and your incredible faces.

[@sandihester]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@katherineallsopp2687]

Loved this peek inside your process Sandi! Fantastic! My favourite video yet!!

[@sandihester]

Really??? I was afraid it was going to be boring 😂. Thank you for letting me know that!

[@katherineallsopp2687]

Sandi Hester not at all!! I think it’s the little decisions we make in our process that are automatic, even subconscious sometimes, during art making that are hard to articulate and often the most interesting to others. The little tips and tricks are so useful too! Great demo 👍

[@maddietighe5881]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing. So inspiring.

[@gradyhester4456]

Very interesting and entertaining! Well done!

[@minnahumble2294]

Really really like these paintings!

[@julietoye9872]

Love this so much 🤗💖😊

[@sandihester]

So glad Julie!

[@MSKCCooke]

I love watching your process! And I love your pieces! Would you consider making a video teaching us, from your point of view, about composition? I ask because I liked the strawberries. I felt they helped tell the story. BUT I liked it when they were gone, too. Not more or less- I liked it both ways. Or should I just go take a class?! Lol! I really enjoy re-watching your videos because I see things differently the 2nd time. I am learning so much and yet, am I? Your studio and watching you create is so calming and comforting for me. I hope it is for you, too!

[@sandihester]

Wow - well, thank you so much for ALL of this! I'll consider that as a video (on composition) - there's a LOT to composition and I do take it into consideration but I also use my eye and what looks good and feels right to me. Looking at other artist's work and using their composition is a good idea too - take a painting you like and then set up a scene with your own stuff in it but lay it out like they do. It will also teach you a lot as you look hard at the painting and consider things.

[@annavladika556]

I love the way you work

[@sandihester]

Thank you!

[@impish22]

I love to watch and re-watch your videos.. always discover something new

[@sandihester]

That makes me happy!

[@allisonschneider7414]

You are so inspiring!

[@sandihester]

Awe - thank you Allison!

[@samsstationery5241]

So inspiring!!!

[@sandihester]

Oh goodness - thank you!!! So glad to hear that! Thank you for letting me know!

[@AWonderfulSheep]

I like the tip to decouple from the idea of colors and focus on values. I'd like to try that next time. :D

[@sandihester]

It’s really helpful with mediums that you don’t have a large range of colors. I’m thinking about rearranging my pastels into value instead of my color like I have them now.

[@katherineallsopp2687]

@@sandihester I arrange by value too and I find you can actually come up with surprising colour choices.

[@bigbear8645]

Excellent ❤

[@sharonraines5243]

Thank you for showing us this process! It was so helpful and encouraging to see this part of "messing up" with art. One boy (A) agreed with you on taking out that second strawberry. Also, he was floored that your first red pencil portrait sketch took 3-5 seconds. :) He just finished doing timed sketches in his art class so he had some context. G's comment: Maaaaybe she's exaggerating. :)

[@sandihester]

Sharon, what a blessing that you guys are still watching my videos!! I love that (A) is doing that in art class - soooo cool!

[@MSKCCooke]

I just watched this again and drew a face right along with you. As I was writing, "all my faces look the same," you showed us even more at the end. They are so different! I am going to keep going and see if I can get the variety you do! 😆

[@sandihester]

Keep at it! That’s the best way to get better!

[@nickadamopoulos6472]

I like it, thanks.

[@sandihester]

I'm glad - thanks!

[@jamesfrancis7464]

Don’t be so hard on yourself. I love it.

[@sandihester]

Thank you James!

[@providencevalleyfarm5270]

I do the same thing with my colors, set the pencil or stick out from the others in some way so I know what I'm using.

[@matthewcloud7064]

Hey Sandi. On the drawing where u took out the strawberry’s I feel it needs another yellow mark near the white mark on the table on the right of the bowl it just looked a bit empty I mean you don’t have to do it but I feel it would make the white mark happy 😊 good work tho. Love the videos although I am having to rewatch a ton caus I ran out of your videos to watch. Xx 😘

[@sandihester]

Thank you Matthew!

[@debsmith7050]

I like hearing the voice in your head :) I would say ii guided you well! I like very much. When I'm not here does it sound the same? Thanks for sharing your creative process.

[@sandihester]

Thank you! That’s what I was hoping would come across - the decision making process!

[@jillc2700]

I bet you could add extra layers on top of neos w your oil pastels. :-) and sometime, give neos a try with water- they’re lovely water soluble too!

[@sandihester]

Good tip! I may try that when I need to fix something and I can't add more layers

[@satishprajapatiarts]

Nice job

[@sandihester]

Thank you so much!!! 🤗

[@gwenritch]

Just love those pastel renderings. How do you store them? wax paper in between? then where do you put them. I live in a very hot humid climate all year and would love to buy the pastels as I really love sketching in that medium but fear storing them. Also do you seal them? Thanks Sandi

[@sandihester]

I recently started using a fixative for oil pastels and I also use glassine paper in between them and I just stack them

[@peonieglow5005]

What's the name of this black paper you are using please. Where to purchase how many grams? your colors are brilliant this.

[@peonieglow5005]

She's pretty like it

[@pattykelly6621]

The Neocolor II is a water soluble crayon

[@michellep237]

thats what i was saying to myself! If she added water, it would be a whole new look

[@iamsimplyblue]

Looks like half woman half man....because of the hair I think