The Absolute Best Pastel Paper for You

[@sueaberle935]

Great video, thank you.

[@PastelWithAvon]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

[@solveigjansson8613]

Interesting ! Why use dry pastell with water instead of watercolour ? I never heard of this before ! Your paintings are very beautiful ! How do you seal the surface when the painting is finished ?

[@PastelWithAvon]

Some pastelist use watercolor as underpainting…with pastel I don’t have to get another medium out, i just use one medium. Other vids discuss using wet pastelwith alcohol, gesso, and other mediums for different effects in the middle of the process that watercolor isn’t going to create. A lot of pastelist-me included- no longer use fixation, we just mount under museum glass with spacers or a mat.

[@inamorata966]

I have practiced my art virtually every day since my retirement in 2018. Not a professional. Doubt I'll sell anything in my lifetime. I have spent money and purchased a ton of material along the way; some winners, some absolute stinkers. I have learned one unavoidable fact: practice, not my wallet, produced anything of worth I have ever created. Hone your drawing skills. Sketch, sketch and sketch some more. Take a few classes. You Tube is chockfull of great teachers. Take chances. Use inexpensive materials but know the results won't be great. THEN, after all that, spend your money on the good stuff and make something fantastic!

[@sueaberle935]

I would like to see you do a pastel painting on sandpaper.

[@PastelWithAvon]

Will do! Actually the last two on 3 ways to start a pastel were on sand paper. I may not have mentioned the paper I was using… good point.

[@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858]

Just found your channel and subscribed as for paper I use 1000 grit wet and dry sand paper .regards from over the pond