Jacob Aguiar demo

[@brendadow3354]

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

[@BigDaddy13515]

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.

[@sabrinachill]

Wonderful demonstration. I enjoyed every minute. Thanks, PSA!

[@bonniegeiger2882]

Wonderful demo and description as you worked. Loved your process and the resulting painting. Thank you.

[@fayrice8962]

Thank you so much Jacob. Your subtlety of touch and of colour is a wonderful learning for me. Your works are truly lovely. Fay 🌺

[@1Thedairy]

Beautiful painting! Very good demo. Thank you

[@CBWilliams]

beautiful. thank you!

[@liti1554]

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!

[@marciengland]

I have to say,I enjoyed this tutorial very much. I also Ike the color study better. Lol. I love the brighter color in the closer tree. Also the far right trees in the illustration are a little too bright and they are equal distance from each other. Just my opinion….what do I know…I’m just a beginner. Lol. But, I did learn a lot and I appreciated the entire tutorial. Great job! Thank you!

[@char3474]

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!

[@susankashmiri6199]

Fabulous demo!

[@zargarzahoor]

Beautiful

[@josephineherrera8508]

Jacob, great painting. Do you ever push the pigment into the paper with a pipe insulation or something like it to fix it as you go?

[@sarabarbeau3241]

I am half way through and hopping to know how the painting is holding on the backboard 🤔

[@pazruizcaballero8370]

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

[@elizabethvcaffrey6353]

What surfaces can you use the alcohol on?

[@leighsirvent654]

Yes, I love the Lux Archival but don’t use your fingers! I have a hard time with small details on the Lux.

[@reneekroyer5104]

Thank you for this helpful video. I was wondering how you keep your reference photo on your tablet on for so long? Mine always turns off after like 30 minutes of inactivity -- it drives me nuts! How do you keep yours on throughout the entire demo?

[@1DaTJo]

Change the settings

[@renzo6490]

@@1DaTJo…you might explain HOW to change settings for folks who don’t know.

[@bonniegeiger2882]

@@renzo6490 For iPad, go to Settings, then Display & Brightness, then on Auto-Lock set Lock to Never (don’t forget to change it back or it will run your battery down). Don’t know how this works on PC.

[@renzo6490]

@@bonniegeiger2882 excellent!

[@bernicebyrnes9046]

what kind of paper you using

[@patess369]

I am a beginner. Would like to know if you always paint from dark to light shades. Basically, how does one know or best which color pastels to lay down first after the underpaintjng?

[@1DaTJo]

Yes dark to light especially for the vertical objects like trees. After that you move around the painting, adding colour as you feel.

[@Alithios]

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

[@cookiefalcone1448]

I love his style, it is hard to listen to him, because of his UPSPEAK on every sentence

[@renzo6490]

Upspeak! So, that’s the term I’ve been looking for. It is annoying…especially when one becomes aware of it.

[@spomenkapetrovic5356]

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[@char3474]

Jacob’s cheerful voice sounds uplifting to me. Learning lots! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@nesrinnuhoglu6113]

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

[@lindaholmes8350]

Do you use all hard pastels? Or soft pastels?

[@1DaTJo]

He said he uses Terry Ludwig (soft), Diane Townsend (soft) and Nupastel (hard). The rest are soft - there actually aren’t many hard pastels besides Rembrandt and Nupastel.

[@lindaholmes8350]

Never mind Jacob, I just heard you say Terry Ludwig....that is my answer :-)

[@reneekroyer5104]

I like Uart best; Lux Archival is too expensive and does not blend as well, as you mentioned. Thank you for this video.

[@1DaTJo]

The problem with uart, as delightful as it is to use, is it curls up. So annoying. I wish the company would fix that issue.

[@reneekroyer5104]

I have found that if I do not get it very wet, it does not curl up. I bet if they fixed that problem, they'd charge more for the paper. lol@@1DaTJo

[@incognito3620]

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

[@charlottesmom]

I hate to say it but I agree, he lost me as the wash…🥴

[@bobbyjoseph7788]

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

[@nesrinnuhoglu6113]

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