Getting Back to Art After a Break // Oil Pastel Gourd

[@angieallen7363]

I really like that background! It may just be a clean-off from other projects but it looks wonderful for this background.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks! I love how it turned out too!

[@kimyork6774]

I am just starting with the oil pastels. Keep the videos coming. I also love that background idea.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks for the encouragement!

[@olderendirt]

The background looks great and the rest turned out quite nice. Thanks!

[@louisapdjones]

I love that background. Lots of interest that couldn’t be replicated even if someone tried. 😊

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I was happy with how it turned out!

[@AafkeVultink]

I use the gummy sticks to put on masking fluid. No more wrecked brushes bc I forgot to soap it. Works like a charm and comes of the squeegee thingy (LOL) just fine.

[@tmmbiti]

The background is a charm! It looks very beautiful!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks so much!

[@marit4660]

Ooooooo, I love it!!! I was cracking up when you mentioned which journal you used, hehe. It came out beautifully - the background, the still life, all of it!! (I'm totally in low stakes mode right now, too 😀)

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@starr-starr]

Wow, so fabulous. I love the looseness , esp with that great background. I have color shapers in three tip colors. White tips are super soft, these are like the ones you get on Amazon as nail tools. Grey tips are firmer, better for detail, and red tips are very firm, and can really do fine detail and move pastel around. I had no idea they came in different firmness until I did some investigating.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

That's awesome, I'll have to check those out!

[@mwGoosman]

Cool idea!

[@nickelisms]

Enabler! (Points finger at you!) I’ve just been loving your oil pastel paintings. I joined Critique Club after your beautiful avocado painting. I just purchased the Caran D’ache 96 set on Amazon for $174.99! Such a treat. They’re a joy to use. Thanks for sharing ❤

[@thefrugalcrafter]

That's great! They are so fun to use.

[@mwGoosman]

I really like how you changed you phone’s sleep setting to 30 minutes for your project. Great idea! Will have to figure it out for my phone and pick a project. Thank you!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I’m glad you found that helpful! It works wonders for me!

[@EllenHamilton-vz8op]

Thank you for doing an oil pastel painting loved it! Hope you ' all have time to do more oil pastel tutorials. Very grateful for the content you share.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

You’re very welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@grannysmithart]

the background is interesting, nice to have a ready made background, fun idea

[@thefrugalcrafter]

It uses up leftover pallette paint and adds interest!

[@melissaaldosari8024]

Beautiful! The thumbnail fooled me! The glass is so realistic!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Glad you liked the detail!

[@jennw6809]

I love seeing you do low-stakes stuff. I also knocked the rust off today in a cheap sketchbook... hadn't drawn anything from life in ages, so I did the very lovely gerberas and chamomile bouquet I got at Trader Joe's with my Neocolor 1s. I didn't care and I got totally lost in flow. It was great!!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

So happy you had a good time!

[@cindybohl9593]

Wow.!This looks great Lindsay. I love the back ground. I have this sketchbook and I am not crazy about it either…..probably because I have not played with it much. You have given me some ideas.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks so much! I hope you have fun with it!

[@paulah317]

Beautiful painting and thanks for the idea to put extra palette paint into a sketchbook. I'm going to so that!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

You're welcome! I hope you enjoy it!

[@bettyjorodgers8552]

Thank you. Enjoyed the video.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@GraceAnnaShack1]

Amazing background your very talented lindsay ty for your great videos and I’m going to do more art this year…in uk is so cold can’t wait for spring lol have a great day 🙂🙂😊

[@PaintSplash5]

I'm with you about how great the silicon tools are. I use them for all kinds of things, stirring pans of paint, scraping paint into new containers, making marks, and now you're using them for blending. They are so awesome because they work well and are easy to clean. This is an adorable painting. Surprised that you didn't do your transparent gesso treatment to turn the page into pseudo pastel paper.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I didn't want to make it precious and wait lol.

[@PaintSplash5]

@@thefrugalcrafter Good answer!

[@susansacco7583]

Sweet painting! I knew you would love the C.D! The greens are good too! I put my favorite colors in a box and use them often 💕 Use thinned down matte medium for sketchbooks? Thanks Lindsay 💕

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Yup!

[@helenbramson3730]

Fantastic video, the picture is so vibrant. I love that you didn’t do a lot of early blending, just a bit of rearranging when all the colours are down! Great background too, it works really well. Thanks for sharing x

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@terrilyon6825]

I love the Haiya pastels too but I went out painting Plein air today and found they freeze at -2!! 😂 Sennelier, Pentel and Neopastels picked up the slack though, ha ha ! I just love oil pastels. Love your pic, I was shaking the rust off today - I haven't painted since the 15th December !!❤

[@berolinastrassmann]

Congrats 👏🏻 for defying the cold 🥶❄️ and painting outside! Good to know some oil pastels work even in the cold.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I am a fair weather plein air painter, I do not want to know the temperature any of my supplies freeze at!

[@terrilyon6825]

@@thefrugalcrafter 🤣🤣🤣

[@StephanieLMedina89]

I see theres a new 72 set of haiya. Im very tempted even though i already have the 48

[@veystone2580]

The Haiya brand doesn’t sell open stock, true; but they’ve introduced small sets containing 8 sticks of a single color. While the options are limited, the available colors are white, black, yellow, red, blue, green, violet, and orange. Available at Amazon for 9.99 except the set of whites, those are 11.99, but still a very good price! It would be great if they included sets for brown, gray, and pink as well. At least a brown, would be perfect. With those additions, one could build a pretty solid collection. 😊

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I hadn’t heard about those sets! I’ll have to check them out.

[@lisamiller8174]

I love this! It has a 1950's art vibe.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks 😊

[@CreativePhenomenonArt]

I always love the way your pastel paintings come out. 🥰🥰 Also that gouache tip is definitely something I’m going to try. Thanks Lindsay💕

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@ginabadeaux9319]

love this

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks 😊

[@selenep1193]

Omg...I read your caption hash tag and saw "food panic challenge"... bnot sure what that means for me but it gave me a chuckle...😂😂 lovely painting.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

😆 🤣 😂

[@AafkeVultink]

I tried the oil pastel of jaxxon's in my canson xl sand grain, wich, much to my suprise, worked fine, just thought to put it out there if you are wondering. Just make sure to put glasine or printerpaper in between sheets when done to prevent smudging over to backside of previous page. You can just use paperclips for itl Its a sketchbook not art for a museum piece.

[@berolinastrassmann]

This sounds great. I have a set of Jaxxon's (made by Mungo, by the way 😉) and the same paper. I will give it a try! Thanks for sharing.

[@AafkeVultink]

@@berolinastrassmann If you're not sure just swatch first. Or use a cheapie clear gesso for bit more tooth, I love how vibrant these sticks are, totally didnt expect that lol. Have to check on mungo - mungyo?- if they're the same.

[@berolinastrassmann]

Yes, Mungo 🫢. I have both and they look exactly the same side by side. @@AafkeVultink

[@gitogal]

i feel yah about the rust. the holidays and the cold and just one thing after another lol i just need to make the time to paint.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Yup!

[@akschauer]

I've used the liquitex clear gesso on thinner paper and it gives kind of a sandy tooth so oil pastels can lay down a bit better. I've also been thinking about experimenting with the Turner Japanesque Acryl Gouache and oil pastels in a mixed media painting, because those particular acrylic gouache have a grittier texture.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I use the lixatex clear as a pastel and pencil ground too, I didn't want to bother today, I didn't have time for that to dry if I wanted to paint.

[@ElizabethMayoleth]

Happy New Year, Lindsay! Great video, I always like your voice-overs as we watch you make art. Lots of good bits to take from you.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thank you so much!

[@mjpete27]

Hullo Lindsay, I get the biggest kick from some of your offhand comments! I am quite harsh on my own work so I understand your not wanting to "waste a piece of paper" This is a wonderful painting and so many of your viewers would PAY for it! I still have trouble believing in my own abilities. I do get reminders like at Christmas when I give a gift and people are astonished that I would just give away a picture that is so amazing! I honestly have dozens if not hundreds of paintings on paper and canvas. Many I believe are not "saleable" but I have not consistently even tried to sell them! My wife is always saying just start a website and put them up for sale! I just do not believe in myself enough. I guess if a professional like you still have doubts or are so critical that you think no one would want, much less pay for your work, I think WE BOTH might be wrong. I recall an auction for a Rembrandt sketch on regular ol' paper that sold for over 1 million dollars! It is for one of his famous paintings, but he never thought, it know it never crossed his mind someone would pay for it! You are an amazing Artist and maybe all of us need to practice, Yes, BUT we need to consider that our practice might be good enough to sell too! A Warm up? Nope your warm and ready to go! Please take care and enjoy this lovely day!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks, that's very kind of you! I love seeing sketches in museums. In the Toulouse Latrec museum there were so many oil sketches on cardboard. I wondered what he would think if he knew they were hanging in a museum! I am sure you have many gems in your archive!

[@heatherhigbee5144]

I love this Lindsay!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks 😊

[@mjpete27]

Lindsay? I was influenced by several Artists right here on KZbin to Break my sticks before I purchase a single stick! Now this does a multitude of things, creates sharp edges for details, smaller pieces are easier to store, more color options in a smaller space, I am sure you know even more advantages! Now I know your husband can make stuff why not ask for a pastel box? Heilman's are the standard, but I would NOT spend the money on a storage box when I could spend the money on pastel sticks! I bought some plywood and made myself a box. There is a great video showing you how to make a pastel storage box, no plans but excellent procedure! I imaging oil sticks are just like the chalk sticks, I am curious about your thoughts? So much so I made a second comment!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I break my soft pastels but I prefer to use oil pastels on their end so I don't brrat them, or oil paint sticks. I have jumbo sticks if I need to cover a large area.

[@nadeaner.cowley513]

Awesome video ❤ thanks for sharing❤

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@eileensnyder7356]

Hi Lindsay, Could you please put an Amazon link to the spatula like tools you were talking about? Thank you.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

amzn.to/4fUt9ql

[@brendawalsh8254]

Love this. I. Just got my pastel storage drawers in today. I can’t wait to put my pastels in and maybe try this painting. I think you show enough here for me to use as a tutorial. It isn’t sped up too fast. I have the Hiya oil pastels so hopefully they will do the job. I have the pentel water soluble ones but can’t use those together right?

[@thefrugalcrafter]

You should be able to if they are both oil pastels if you use the watersoluble as a base layer.l, add water and then go over with the regular. If they are the wayetsoluble chalk kind it might make a gummy mess.

[@brendawalsh8254]

@thefrugalcrafter they are actually Portfolio water soluble oil pastels. Not sure why I put pentel. Anyway, I can store all my pastels in those drawers together right? Like oil pastels in one drawer soft pastels in another?

[@annelemaitre302]

My experience with oil pastel is that it transfers on to everything that touches the piece. How do you prevent that in your sketchbooks? And do you use a fixative, and if so, what kind? How long do oil pastels take to cure or dry?

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I seal it with sennelier oil pastel fixative and or brush some thinned down gel medium over it to seal it. I also don't paint on the facing pages in thus book because it's so thin.

[@annelemaitre302]

@ is the gel medium acrylic? If it is have you had problems with it cracking over the oil pastels. Wondering because I understand that oil can go over acrylic, but acrylic won’t work over oil.

[@hamerray]

When you're done painting what do you use to clean those silicone brush blenders. Where did you buy those silicone blenders at. Have you tried the Mungyo oil pastels.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I just wipe them on a paper towel. amzn.to/3WbTusU

[@veystone2580]

🤔 Doesn't the matte medium make the pages of your sketchbook stick together? I'm asking because with acrylic paint, at some point the pages stick, and the paint gets ruined, as trying to separate them tears the paper.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

It shouldn't if you thin it down. Gloss medium might tho. Mod podge will, especially in humid environments. If you want to be safe use thinned matte varnish. It's less apt to pull moisture from the air.

[@veystone2580]

@thefrugalcrafter Thx a lot!

[@SusansColorfulExpressions]

Would the paper be good for pastel pencils or graphite? I don't have this one, but I like the Stilman & Bern Beta series as well, also the Zeta smooth paper for a hot press feel.

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Not really, it's too smooth.

[@SusansColorfulExpressions]

@@thefrugalcrafter I love the Zeta for pen and ink drawing. I also use it for some hot press watercolor.

[@sandrarahimi5688]

This is really cool. You seem to really shine at painting food. I have never used Neocolor 1, but aren’t they waxy like neocolor 2? If it is waxy, doesn’t the oil of regular oil pastels have a hard time sticking?

[@thefrugalcrafter]

I've never had an issue with them sticking!

[@carolynlangdon8622]

Love how loose this is!

[@thefrugalcrafter]

Thanks!