FACES IN COLLAGE, OIL PASTELS, & OIL PAINTING

[@mell5111]

Love knowing about these materials

[@sydneymcalpin6869]

I love these exercises, yes please

[@sandihester]

🤗🤗🤗

[@eileenroth9868]

❤️ Love the shine the oiling adds! Thank you!

[@KittehNow]

Yes, love this content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cmcl5543]

I like everything you do. You are bold. You are fearless!

[@joanzivi7425]

Sandi - there is Nothing boring about your videos! I love them - your experiments and discoveries - all wonderful and inspiring. Thank you!!!

[@sandihester]

Thank you so much Joan!!!❤️

[@redheadlady2]

YES YES 🙌 YES, love these exercises...way over my abilities, however do agree, like the one on black gesso the best. Please don’t stop giving us JoY 🤩

[@sandihester]

Thank you - I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@shayblecken7075]

I love ❤️ the marks you can see with the oil pastels. I also like black backgrounds. I have a sketch book that has black pages.

[@Dawnasy]

Thank you for sharing your process! I love your art and your encouragement! Such fun videos!

[@sandihester]

Thank you- I’m so glad you’re enjoying them!

[@xurupe]

I just love watching your painting process videos and your paint-alongs. I wanted to play with portraits now. Alas, I must shell pecans instead. But that's OK; I have lots of Sandi videos to watch while I do that.

[@denises9455]

❤️💜👍

[@deborahmeyers7839]

Beautiful paintings Sandi. Your cat is soooooo cute. Thanks for sharing your inspiring vids😘

[@sandihester]

Thank you Deborah!!

[@Suzi77]

Watched your video last night and dreamt of painting all night. It was great. Yes, enjoy watching your process of painting, also like the black paper. Inspiring. TY. 🙋🏼‍♀️🌻

[@sandihester]

Ohhhhh that's so fun!!! I love going to sleep thinking on creative things. The black paper is dreamy isn't it - it's hard to beat for some reason! Thanks for watching and for letting me know my video inspired art dreams!!!

[@meghanstanford6163]

I love love LOVE! Seeing you play and try new things and mediums. It’s so inspiring as a new artist to feel like I don’t have to stick to one signature thing. Also very much looking forward to the oil paint tutorial. Everyone says how great it is but I haven’t been able to do it because I’m intimidated. Thank you!

[@RBartsy]

I love the purple color of her jumper and the glasses but still like your first one best too. The first one has an all around vibrant delightful mess while this new one is about the purple jumper while she seems to recede. The lovely sweater wears her until you give her face more color authority. PS maybe the sweater takes her dancing in the moonlight so she loses the deer in headlights look? I love a suggestion of story.

[@wendytaylor1486]

Love these wonky faces Sandi,the one with glasses on looks like Willy Nelson!🤣

[@sandihester]

😂😂😂😂

[@Janartable]

Yes, i do like your ‘exercises’. You encourage me to just try stuff...play...come back to it and do it again with variations of mediums and substrates. Very encouraging and i always love your product. But that’s the aside, because you ARE encouraging me to enjoy the process and just see what happens.

[@sandihester]

Sooooooo glad to hear that! It's so much more fun if we can work on enjoying the process instead of being a famous artist! So glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@rosaliemaguire]

I use Glassine paper to put over my Sennelier oil pastels in my sketchbook. Sennelier also have a good oil pastel fixatve too.

[@sandihester]

I finally bought some Glassine and I love it!

[@deborahmeyers7839]

Oh how I love these soooooo darn aw🥰

[@sandihester]

You're so sweet! Thank you!

[@jamiemorris3526]

OMG so awesome! 🌻🙏🏼💐

[@sandihester]

Thank you so much!

[@impish22]

Great.. I will watch this one again..!

[@sandihester]

For some reason I'm just now seeing your comment - so sorry to just now respond. What a great comment to get - the best! Thank you!!

[@Magicpoppy]

I Love your videos🤗. Can you please tell me more how you store your oil paints🙏(13:55)? I recently found you and I'm watching all your videos at the moment. You have ignited a spark in me which I needed to push through a blockade🤗. Thank you❤

[@dollladie]

I'm not sure if you're aware, but I've recently discovered a spray fixative by Sennelier for oil pastels. The product is awesome! You spray it on lightly - a few light coats, and it helps preserve your oil pastel drawings/paintings from dust and fading, and also makes it so you can handle them more. I've read reviews on Amazon where people are able to frame their work without glass because of it. I found it on Amazon, but it was WAY cheaper on Dick Blick's site. Love your work - well, I do a lot of folk art - you're very inspiring. All the Best!

[@sandihester]

Thanks so much for sharing - I've actually thought about trying that product - good to know it works. I'll probably add it to my next art supply purchase. Thanks again!

[@dollladie]

@@sandihester So far so good with me -- a few (light) coats is all you need. Best of Luck!

[@tildamann2865]

YEs, love to see the exercises!

[@sandihester]

I'm so glad Tilda!!!!

[@wendytaylor1486]

Hi Sandi,try Collage again with Acrylic Matt medium and a Princeton catalyst to spread with,can recommend it 😀

[@ShadowoftheDude]

4:42 that’s why you get a spray fixative! It seals the piece like a varnish so it won’t be distributed. I also remember hearing somewhere you can use hairspray as an alternative, but don’t quote me on that.

[@sandihester]

I actually try hairspray in my newest video 😂!

[@katherineallsopp2687]

These are great Sandi! I really like your journey with the oil pastels and black gesso. Especially how you get the gesso brushwork texture coming through the marks. I laughed so hard with the collage experiment too at the beginning because I literally go through the same thing every time I try and “give it another go”. Those little scraps of paper everywhere drive me INSANE and glue goes everywhere and how do collage artists store all the little bits?!? Also what is that paint saver tube?!? I’m so intrigued!

[@sandihester]

Katherine, you leave me the best comments - I thank you so much for your consistent support!!! I have already thought about trying collage again but with thinner paper but I don't like the process so why am I even considering it - ugh!! INSANE captures the process completely!!! The paint saver is called a palette garage - here's a link www.greatarttools.com/palette_garage_store/ I have used it for a LONG time and I love it!!! If I ever get to making my oil painting video I was going to talk about this. What have you been working on lately?

[@sandihester]

I also meant to mention not to bother buying the oil they try to sell with the tube - there's NO need for it! I stick my tube in the freezer after each painting session and it stays there until I paint again and the paint is preserved beautifully!

[@katherineallsopp2687]

I diy-ed my own little paint saver that I keep in the freezer but the tube design is intriguing. One of the things I love about oil paint is hardly any waste! Mixing up leftover colours into new colours 😍. I’ve got some variegated lillies on the easel but the painting is sporadic. I’m mostly trying to do “at home learning” with my 6yo while keeping my 3yo entertained 😖. The usual lock down “let’s try not to kill each other today” day 🤪

[@sandihester]

@@katherineallsopp2687 Yes, I agree that is one of the great things about oil - I am sooooo cheap and HATE wasting paint - so it's really a win. I think that's why I like traditional gouache too.

[@katherineallsopp2687]

Sandi Hester I will check it out! I’ve got my own little diy paint saver, a piece of glass in a plastic box. Not nearly as glamorous 😄. Not much painting on my easel at the moment since I am on 24/7 parent duty in lock down.

[@michelepastele5347]

love the exercises! I've used the Senelier fixative for oil pastels and it's worked well just fyi ... I LOVE working on black paper but it doesn't seem like a lot of companies make black books. Do you have some you could recommend? Thank you! x

[@sandihester]

I may have to give that fixative a try. My favorite sketchbooks are the Stillman & Birn and they have black

[@sandihester]

I will also use black gesso sometimes

[@michelepastele5347]

@@sandihester I've used the S & B spiral bound sketchbooks and liked their quality. I didn't know they had black and I can't wait to order some. It is thrilling to think about (my life can be boring and I find art supplies thrilling). Thanks for the info!

[@sandihester]

@@michelepastele5347 as you watch more of my videos you’ll see the S&B black sketchbook in use- I really love it! I get quite excited about art supplies too!!!

[@oldworknew1169]

Fredrix make black geosso canvas pads

[@lindseyfrizzell2]

12:26 Random weird question! Where did you find the cool britches you’re wearing? They look comfy and functional. Lately, I’ve been loving joggers from Target. xoxo - Lindsey 💌

[@sandihester]

Not sure - I’ve had them for a long time.

[@wendytaylor1486]

Love these 🤗Sandi,I find the trouble with oil pastels is that they don’t dry,have you found a way to get them dry ?

[@sandihester]

No, they don't try unfortunately - they get slightly drier but you can always still smudge them with your finger.

[@painting-with-J]

@@sandihester Sennelier makes a fixative just for their oil pastels that works pretty well.

[@sandihester]

@@painting-with-J I’ve recently gotten it and I love it!

[@julieknudsen6297]

I’m interested it everything you want to share. I’m desperately trying to get motivated to do my art again.

[@sandihester]

Thank you Julie! Just jump in there - with zero expectations except to start and to have fun and just enjoy it!

[@wolfgangschiefert8189]

🥰🐌

[@impish22]

you said "oiled out".. not sure what that is... can you explain? It's probably simple.. but don't understand the "why" behind it.. still trying to get comfortable with oils.. and the terminology. I tend to enjoy more explanation of the process.. what you are doing, explaining terms... and not as much music... but your art is fun, and whimsical and I enjoy watching for those features

[@sandihester]

Hey J Marie! I kind of explain it in the video - I've only started doing it recently (because I just recently figured out what it is). Basically as oil colors dry they all tend to not shift in color much like acrylic does but darks do "sink" - that is they get dull and lighter as they dry. When you "oil them out" you put the mixture on that I mention in my video and wipe it off and it brings the brilliance back just like they will look when they are varnished. I'll try and show an example sometime soon. Some of my videos are more explanation and others aren't - I try to do a mixture. Thanks for stopping by!

[@bihancgraphics3464]

wow this is amazing really love it... i'm also doing similar looking content watch out if you had free time ... Honestly this is perfect

[@sandihester]

thank you so much! Will check out your channel for sure!

[@koskey06]

Your faces look like you are trying to hard to have that look.