Pastelmat, UArt, Pastel Card - Pastel Papers Review - Jason Morgan wildlife art

[@wildlifeartjm]

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[@lizkramer9819]

I have a PhD in a scientific field (yet I dream of doing art all day). Your thorough method speaks to me, as does the info for a busy artist! I have a day job and lots of non-art responsibilities and distractions. I don’t have time to figure this out. Your tests and expert analysis will save money, yes, but also frustration! For those who have to steal 5 min to a few hours here and there, this information is SO important. It allows us more time to languish in the joy of art and more time in that meditative zone. Thank you!

[@fraufuchs9555]

Same here. I have limited time and budget for art. This kind of video really helps.

[@kentjensen4504]

Great comment. I fully agree. This guy is terrific.

[@Kyomiibrown]

Best thing to tone the uart with is ink or watercolour. Gouache and acrylic will fill the tooth more quickly. What some pastellists do is use an alcohol or water or mix of both and do the underpainting in pastel and wet it with the alcohol or water or mix of both. Isopropyl alcohol needs to be 70 percent or less if using neat, not the 90 percent one - you can use the 90 percent one diluted with water though, 30/70 - the 70 being water. Both ways the pastel becomes like paint and wetting it fixes it to the surface. Hope that helps.

[@spiritwithusjulianpalumbo4501]

Hi Jason, I really appreciate this video comparing the different papers! You are saving us a lot of time, money and headaches! Thank you! Especially regarding the pastel card. I was really surprised how easy the rough surface came off! important for people who use markers as accents, too. or fixative sprays all going on wet at first.

[@wildlifeartjm]

my pleasure

[@beckyquick4025]

Jason, you can get pastelmat here in U.S.A at Dickblick 's art store or catalog. 9x12 assorted sells for 38.99 12 sheets, 12x16 sells for 62.59. 5x7 around 26.99. Jerrysartarama may sell as well. Just letting people in states know where they can purchase. Love your reviews!!!!!!!!!!

[@wildlifeartjm]

thanks for that tip

[@annihilator45]

I love when you review art materials, it saves me so much time and money testing all the types of materials myself! Great😀 thanks!

[@deborahbarnes8475]

Thank you for testing and reviewing the paper for us. ❤❤❤❤ You are awesome!

[@florgaray388]

Best video EVER. Bought pastelmat and is it GORGEOUS but I wanted to try Uart since it is less expensive for me and specifically wanted a review or info about the 600. And you just did the best video possible for me. Thank you.

[@KathyBrooksArt]

Wow, well, this was great! These were the three papers at the top of my list. This review was invaluable in showing the capabilities of each, and any limitations too. Thanks so much for doing this. Love your channel too!

[@BeardedBarley1]

Terrific helpful art tips video with pastel papers! You just saved me grief and money. Thank you so much.

[@OrioleBeagle1234]

Thanks for the demo! I was thinking about trying the Sennelier. You just saved me a lot of money!

[@angelamackay616]

many artists are prepping their own paper for pastels with gesso I believe, it will make any kind of paper have the sand paper feeling, and ready for layering pastels..Have you tried it?

[@kabluey5971]

Thanks for the review. I was surprised at the surface coming off of the Sennelier Pastel Card. I buy the UART in rolls of 56 inches by 10 yards. I saw a review of the 800 grit UART done with just regular colored pencils (not pastel pencils). Since it can take multiple layers of pencil, you may want to give it a try.

[@dianeparry4676]

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[@artbyconniedawn9680]

This video is brilliant Jason. I use pastelmat with watercolour pencils as an underpainting and then polychromos on top. It is great to know that I am using the best paper for the job.

[@kentjensen4504]

They're both 360gsm. When a type of paper is pasted to a board, you don't add to the GSM number. I used to do comics on 310 GSM Schoellershammer paper. Sometimes I used the loose sheet version and sometimes (usually for covers) the same paper sold mounted on a board. They're both 310 GSM Schoellershammer paper even though the one mountain on a board is naturally heavier altogether.

[@ginatexasgirl9438]

You are great....very through and don’t let people worry you with bad manners. I enjoy you so much. I’m just a littleOle lady and it hurt me for someone make ugly remarks. God loves you, don’t it bother you are a great artist. Thanks in all you do. Gina Cates

[@bobojangles]

Excellent video. Very helpful. Thank you

[@alexklette1138]

Pastelmat is my fave but the massive Uart rolls are EXTREMELY cost effective!

[@nafordebi]

Have you attempted to make sanded paper yourself? I’ve made some with painting different papers with clear gesso it works well

[@billwesterman4583]

Excellent comparison. Like you, I have a favorite, and it is UArt. I've been using pastels since 1944. I have a technique of using UArt 400 or 500, adding broad strokes of musltiple colors over most of the surface, then spraying alcohol over the surface, then using a brush to spread the pastel strokes, working from light to dark. It gives a great underpainting. Many years ago I found that after taping the edges of pastl mat down, then removing the tape at the completion of the painting, the surface would tear in an unsightly manner. There is a KZbin video "Pastel and Alcohol" by Bill Westerman that demonstrates the process. Thanks again for the video comparison. BW

[@alexklette1138]

I love Uart too, and the huge rolls of Uart are by FAR the most cost effective.

[@MichelleLynnFineArt]

I have the UArt paper and really love it. I use the 500

[@GrandyPandy]

At last found this demo of your Jason! Extremely helpful, thank you so much 👏👏👏

[@fauxurfancy]

I just read the UArt has to be mounted before you add a wash. They said that it will warp the paper.

[@aviaja2008]

Brilliant review as always ...the go to artist I prefer...thank you

[@tamietokarcik1771]

Thank you for your review, I think it's fabulous. I usually use Ampersand Pastelbord or velour paper for my paintings, but you have convinced me to give the Pastelmat a try.

[@belindaroca4577]

Jason.. thank you! Great review.

[@1DaTJo]

I have to stick up for Sennelier pastel card here. It’s beautiful, like drawing on velvet. Just don’t wet it. Easy. They’re all excellent surfaces. I just feel that the channel owner has given Pastel card a very bad rap, but it’s lovely.

[@richardgriffiths2786]

Thanks Jason, very informative.

[@neatz11]

Great video Jason really appreciate it, thank you. I love pastematt too. And now you have answered how that surface compared to UART.. Great time saver!

[@pegwat5516]

Hi Jason. That was an extremely valuable comparison. I wonder if you have seen Karen Margulis using Uart and Blair very low odour workable fixative? She uses it to darken areas then add lighter colour across the texturised finish it creates.

[@barbarawilliams7012]

Thanks for another great unbiased, honest review. I have a hand injury and recently purchased your Pan Pastel Wildlife set and are loving them, however, I do not love the prices of the tools. I’ve heard that makeup applicators are a good inexpensive alternative - have you tried any? Regarding paper, I have been experimenting and the 800p sanded I love for soft pastels is ripping the knife covers in no time. I haven’t seen anything from you about Artfix Spectrum which seems to be recommended by some professionals. Pastelmat is really my choice for Panpastels, I will keep my sanded for when I use soft Pastels on their own.

[@artaddict2313]

La Carte may have a nice surface but it sucks, it cant handle any wet media...I work mainly with oil pastel and I prefer PastelMat, or UArt 600.

[@suzannek468]

Hi Jason, thanks for your Review vids, very interesting. I have tried Uart several times, cannot stand it (mind I have only tried it with pencils). Find it doesn't blend well. Pastelmat is fantastic, but I have recently started using Colourfix Smooth by Art Spectrum an Australian company, it is very much like using Pastelmat. Love it. Has a better price point too here in Australia. I use these substrates for coloured pencil and for pastels.

[@Linda-qq5mg]

Thank you for another wonderful review.

[@annemarievanderwinkel7794]

Wonderfull! Learning from you, saves me a lot of time finding out!👍🏻😍

[@christineamstutz420]

Great info! Thank you so much for this testing.

[@davidmciver9483]

I love pastel mat a lot but it has to be securely taped down as it starts out warped.

[@patriciarobledo3954]

I recently tried the Sennelier Pastel Card, and it was ok, but the texture wore off on the bottom edge while I was working on it, leaving a shiny white surface. Unacceptable for that price. I won't be buying it again I'm disabled, draw on my lap sitting in a recliner, that's how the bottom of the paper rubbed off. I've been using Maimoufin sanded pastel paper and I'm hooked. Depending on the color, it costs between $2.30 and $3.00 per sheet. I can layer as much as I want, it's beautiful. I didn't like it the first time I used it, but after trying to draw a portrait on Canson Mi-Teints paper and nearly threw it out my front door, I tried the Maimoufin again and fell in love. My first order wss dark grey and I just ordered earth tones and black. So nice not to be frustrated trying to get more layers.

[@cherylhughes691]

Thank you for review - very informative.

[@DaisyIdes]

Pastelmat is available in the US from Dakota.

[@kenhughson4073]

the card is cork and in my opinion the best

[@ushaanand4940]

Happy New Year !

[@katharinelockhart3189]

To blow dust off pastel pictures, you can use the puffer things that they blow laptop or keyboards clean. You can pick one up at the office supply store.

[@kathybradbury]

I started out using pastelcard from sennelier, because I liked the colors, texture and weight of it; but when I learned you cannot use any wet media it really turned me off of it. It’s not so much because I need to do an underpainting, but the idea that if a painting I spent many hours creating got caught in a flood or even just got something splashed on it, it could be destroyed?! Ah...no.

[@Kyomiibrown]

Hi Jason. Try Fisher 400 by Tim fisher. It can hold wet media like pastelmat but can take a little more layers. Quite a few pro's use it.

[@attheranch873]

Kyomii I’d like to see a review on that too. It’s not available in the US though, I’d have to order it from England.

[@jendeleonart]

Thank you! This was very helpful.

[@horse_guru86]

I want to do an AIRBRUSH Bokeh background, will Clairfontaine paper hold up to that in multiple layers...with the painting still drawn on top? Thank you!

[@TheBabs000]

The Sennelier colors look much more beautiful, rich and velvety than the others on camera?🌸

[@davidmciver9483]

I tried pastel card but it is problem after using Clare Fontaine product.

[@dbsartworks418]

Have you tried pastelbord from ampersand?

[@MichelleLynnFineArt]

DB's artworks I am using that now for a portrait, and really like it.

[@dbsartworks418]

Michelle Lynn's Fine Art I have used it for pastels and am trying colored pencil on it, love it!

[@wildlifeartjm]

will look in to trying both of those

[@IvanCapitani]

Jason, the Pastelmat papers come in a variety of colours. Is there a reason for this? Based on what should one choose a color over the other and what are the effects on the drawing? thanks

[@wildlifeartjm]

Ivan Capitani each colour will influence the outcome. Some more than others

[@ricoviselli]

@@wildlifeartjm Jason, have you done a test on how the color of the pastel paper or board will affect the color of pastel.

[@Morticia147]

Thats pretty interesting, I love Pastelmat paper. I think its just great to work on... Are you using any kind of fixative on your pastell drawings? I'm asking because a few weeks before I totally ruined a protrait on Pastelmat with pastel fixative. The portrait looked like he had the measels and there was now way to rescue it.... I had the right distance for the spraying, the stuff isn't old or so and it was a pretty expensive company.

[@mandododo2]

Hi Jason thanks so much for this video. Very helpful. About the “blowing the dust” part, I blow the dust of my pastels and yes I’ve got saliva dots by mistake on some of my pastelmat art. But it dries so quickly and you can cover it up so quickly, it’s like nothing happened. I think using water like you used in the example has to be different, saliva and water are different things :)

[@wildlifeartjm]

Patricia saliva ruins pastel card

[@renateschmidt1204]

Thank you for this brilliant review. You can take water or alcohol on your pastels to get a underpainting it is a bit like watercollor and you wil get rid of the effekt of the struktur of the surface withaut loosing the Gribb of your surface. tri it it works well. Pleas excuse my bad english.

[@andrefpb24]

Hello, im from portugal and i love drawing with soft pastels, but here in Portugal we only have, Canson, rembrandt and pastelfix by hahnemuhle, i just want to know which is better?

[@simaabedini843]

Glad to find you I was deciding:)

[@bellavita2005]

That was very informative. Thank you!

[@elenarogers5311]

Thanks for your helpful videos. I live in Italy and can only get Fabriano Pastel Paper. Could you tell me if that is a good quality paper? Thankyou!

[@acerobst1147]

Thank you so much for this information. It has helped me a lot. Also, thank you for taking the time, and the expense that you invest, to create your videos. I have just subscribed, as I don't want to miss any of your videos. Thanks again. 🎨 👍

[@theamateurpoint8755]

Hy Jason. I have a question: do you think that if water comes in contact with pastel card and you let it dry without touching it, it won't damage the paper? Or does it dissolve the blender anyway and when you touch it, it will come off. Thank you so much. Wonderful video and info. Thanks for sharing.

[@attheranch873]

The Amateur Point Even one drop of water on the pastel card instantly removes the surface.

[@salli8324]

Mr. Morgan, usually your videos are very nicely done. Thank you. This one, however, is spoiled by an incessant electrical buzzing/humming sound beginning @ 00:59 mark. I can not tell you how long into the video it lasts because that sound is likened to fingernails on a chalkboard for me & I quickly paused the video. :(

[@lynsherwood5269]

thanks very informative

[@micahstwistedtattooco.8625]

I did my first drawing on pastelmat paper recently and I have spent about 15 hours on it. I am having a problem with one small spot on the drawing where the chalk does not want to stick to the paper at all. When I try to press a little harder it just removes more of the chalk. It's in a prominent place on the drawing so I really need to fix the spot. Do you have any recommendations on how to get the chalk pastel to stick? I'm using CarbOthello pastel pencils. Thank you. I love your videos. :-)

[@BeardedBarley1]

Gesso the spot maybe?

[@mkAYY825]

where can i buy pastelmat from the uk? thanks

[@JP-dv7rf]

Could anybody tell me if you can use the Pastelmat with a lightbox or is the paper too thick to see through? thanks.

[@1DaTJo]

J P it’s definitely too thick to see through.

[@earthtraveler313]

Hello, first time on your channel..great information..I have a question. What paper would be advisable for a portrait 30 x40 in. When I was in college I would use plain gray large board, using pastel and watercolor to paint my friend's pets and scapes. Now I paint in oils and want to go back to pastels as well. From one artist to another, what would you recommend regarding gray boards? I'm glad I ran into your channel, very educational..thank you.

[@wildlifeartjm]

the paper type would be pastelmat brand. colour would depend on the subject, but grey would work for sure

[@earthtraveler313]

Thank you, I will do that.

[@TheCatnipCinema]

Well pastel card seems terrible. This review was so in depth. Thank you!

[@PoeticLite]

Hi, I am new to pastel painting and used pastelmat for the first time yesterday ( using Rembrandt soft pastels ). I thought it was a complete nightmare for blending on, using my fingers. The only way l could blend was when using a piece of pipe insulator, with some force. This on first two layers. Also when pastels left streaks, these were hard to remove. Do you have any ideas on how to correct these issues or where I am going wrong, particularly why i couldnt blend using my fingers? Thanks for sharing your own results and experiences.

[@wildlifeartjm]

This type of paper hold the pastel well. That is its benefit. I show how I blend on all my pastel videos here on my channel

[@PoeticLite]

I regret buying the panpastels - Ive tried them on pastelmat and other pastel paper and I think they are awful; blocky colour and will not blend. The sponge 'socks' to put on to the knives rip before even using. And unless you pay the extra £20.00 for the trays, what a faff to use the small dishes. For the money, no, not worth it at all. I would much prefer to stick with regular soft pastels, for which I have had great results. Sadly, I believe the pre-sale hype is louder and more effective than the usefulness of the product. I am very disappointed.

[@ricoviselli]

@@PoeticLite totally disagree. if applicators are ripping is it the sponge's fault or does the cause lie somewhere else. the product requires a delicate touch, the extra pressure only damages the applicator. the wedges can take more pressure but if you treat fine brushes by squashing the paint on the paper then the result is the same. the pans and trays keep things organized but a shelf to hold the pans works well for me as I paint with sponges. I am happy to hear that you have found a form of pastel that works for you.

[@stephw1363]

Wish you would zoom in a bit more hard to see

[@luisbito8391]

plean air the paper sennelier is danger depend on ambient, imagine raining the paper is no protect the painting

[@sporkfineart]

Thank you!

[@hdb80]

Oh my gosh, don't sneeze.

[@user8274gbwq]

👏😳

[@momicajack]

Thanks so much for this video! I had actually been thinking about trying out the Pastel Card, and this video definitely helps me save my money on that! I only recently got some of the PastelMat, which I've been wanting for a long time, and like said by Becky, I got it from DickBlick.com. I absolutely love the PastelMat, and I've been also thinking about trying the UArt. Thanks to you, I know which number to try out. I would like to ask one question, though, what do you use to sharpen your Derwent Pastels? I just recently bought the wooden box set, but in attempting to sharpen them, they broke a lot, and now I have at least 10 out of the set of 72 that are very short. I have only started using them in one picture, but not much at all, because the sharpening has upset me so much about them. What do you use? I have tried a manual Carl Angel sharpener and straight razors. Neither prevented the constant breakage.

[@shoot4thstars]

momicajack I would really like to know too. Wouldn't buy the pencils unless I know I can sharpen them without losing whole pencils.

[@KaosReigns10]

I've heard only use the mounted kind, with the turn handle, like from school!!!

[@Mameha4]

Pastel pencils need to be "sharpened" by a cutter (You carefully peel off the wood around the pencil). Regular sharpeners will only destroy them. You can glue back bigger chunks of pastel with instant glue. If you need a sharp point, use sandpaper. I also found out that electric sharpeners do a decent job. Just make sure the sharpener's pencil opening is not hugging the pastel pencil. A wide sharpener (eg for jumbo pencils) will generally sharpen a regular sized pastel pencil fairly well. Just hold the pencil straight while the sharpener is running.

[@dianneparks5000]

I just purchased this for my pastel pencils and it seems to be working great - no more broken ends. smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B079MC68MK/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[@MixedMediaCraftsbyDiane]

Thank you for the paper reviews Jason. Have you tested out Lux Archival sanded paper against Pastelmat? I would love to see a comparison. Here is a link to Brush and Pencil brushandpencil.com/product/luxarchival-professional-sanded-art-paper-8x10-pack-of-10/

[@user-wickedflower]

Too much dithering ,it says on the packet if its pastel mat or card or whatever you dont need to guess & rubbing dirty fingers over the papers is giving me anxiety

[@wildlifeartjm]

Lol

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