Take Your Art to the NEXT LEVEL! Understanding Value

[@LaMatadora]

Wow! Very informative. Excellent video. Thank You

[@HeiderosesPhotograph]

Wow ....Amazing results, TFS

[@gwenboswell7181]

Thank you❤❤❤❤

[@mayawyn8672]

Excellent class! Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge. This class was one of the most informative I’ve seen by any online teacher. You always kept my interest and I felt encouraged by what I’ve learned. I recommend your channel to my friends who are stepping into pastels. Keep on teaching, you are great at it!

[@ranjanachand9306]

Very enlightening..I wish there was more on using the value finder 😀😀 some day... Thanks

[@shirleymontano9657]

Thank you Susan. I just found you and am learning alot.

[@janeorgan4584]

Very useful video, lots to think about and work at in and carry into my art, thank you very much.

[@poisxe]

Mind blown! Game changer. I would love a video about high key painting- it can be so ethereal and captivating Thank you for the lesson and I have my first set of soft pastels arriving Thursday- Sennelier Plein Air 80 half sticks. If I become a patreon will I be able to view past videos there? Thank you for sharing your art with us!

[@rhiannonsweeet]

How do you varnish oil pastels? I heard you cant cause it never dries. So if thats true then how do you protect the art work you just created?

[@FireLordMeagan]

Well, I’m very late replying to this comment haha, but you can in fact varnish pastels with an aerosol fixative! Fixative is basically a solution of resin and alcohol that you can use either to preserve your final work OR fix a layer to the paper so that you can keep drawing on top of it without disturbing it. A lot of artists dislike fixative because of how it can change a piece’s appearance, though, so the most foolproof way to preserve your pastels is to frame it behind glass. That goes for both oil and soft pastels. If framing is too expensive or you’re working in a sketchbook and you just want a way to keep the pages from smudging, I find that taping some acid free newsprint or some other more waxy paper that won’t adhere to your drawing over the page does a decent job! That’s how I protected my charcoal and conte sketchbook assignments in my drawing class :) One last thing to consider is how soft the oil pastels you’re using are. A harder, more waxy oil pastel won’t smudge as easily, but something like Sennelier or Mungyo gallery soft oils will probably need to be framed or fixed if you want to preserve it. Personally I like working with Pentel’s 50 color set in my sketchbooks because they’re pretty waxy and don’t smudge or transfer much, even if I don’t cover it with newsprint. Obviously there are other trade-offs to using cheaper, lower grade oil pastels, but I find that it never hurts to have one of those cheaper sets in my inventory. Hope this was helpful!

[@pirjoraila4605]

Contrast is indicative of lighting conditions. In real life there is light and dark and without shadows there is no form. There is much more contrast in the test pictures than you talk about before painting. The trees are very dark and the sky is quite light. Having little contrast is one choice of style but it may look very flat. Many people do not use enough contrast to make interesting paintings.

[@jonmahashintina]

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[@paulpaul6110]

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