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[Music] [Music] Just My Little Helper he's uh he's very well he's really calm quiet right now he's kind of tired worn out but he may join us in the videos today so if you hear me if I just like stop all of a sudden for some reason rather than pom pom we tried to tendon you know he's probably getting into some kind of mischief okay before we begin I'm going to go over a few things as I mentioned before I've already made a painting with this is a new this is a van Gogh line of wool pastels it's the 60 count set and like I said I've already done one painting with it oops helps them not bump the camera all right that would be very good didn't do it anyway this is a 60 count set I've already rearranged them to my color palette you might want to do this it's easier for you to reference colors with as you as I said before I've already done a test painting with these to see how well we do and like I said this isn't done entirely with this this brand of pastels just to see what it looks like and this is course of a rendition of a painting from a wall painting book I think it was disturbing about company called WordPress or I'm somewhere it's called search press you can find it at search press calm and if you're interested in the book putting a link at the bottom of the video for you and you can go to scoop it out but anyway as you can see I've already I'm gonna be working today on kansan what's called oil and acrylic paper and I like to have Thomas my chopper you can't climb on that helper they turned it up let me put this way I bet it is going on [Music] okay as I was saying this is the first time I've used this brand of paper it's called wool and acrylic paper it's 136 pound and of course it's 11 by 14 inches and the reason I say I thought I mentioned the fact that it's 106 written 36 pound weight is that leads me to my next topic and that is different techniques of blending we'll get into that I'll make a separate video for that part later on and just do a whole video when blending techniques but main wanly I blend my wool pastel pieces is I well I'll put down a base layer of color and then I blend it I just put down a loop into the pastel and blend it with a herbalist this is called herbalist terpenoid you can find this at any arts and crafts store and how we Lincoln there we need to go about this and basically what I do is I take some of this this is odorless turpentine because if you're like there's certain there's people that are like me that have issues with they can't take to this the smell of turpentine straight turpentine and or mineral spirits and all that and with which is used for old paintings and whatnot but I basically use this number one because you can use it indoors and it does not have any other at all to speak of practically but I take it and put it in a little dish and what I do is when I put down pastels you will see later in the video series when I put down a little bit of a pastel I'll blend it together with a brush just paint brush dipped in the turpenoid and that's all blended together and you'll see that later on in the video anyway I use a variety of surfaces I use acrylic paper and I sometimes use watercolor paper the pigment the painting I just showed you that I initially do with the pastels the test painting that was done on I think on a forty pound watercolor paper and of course it kind of buckles a little bit but if you tape it down like to do a watercolor painting then the it won't draw a look as much anyway I pull begin I want to show you this is a color chart with my pastels that I'm gonna be using and I've called you two made up a color chart swatch close watch start basically for two purposes one is that you can use this as a quick reference to see what color you want to use in some painting and number two whenever my pastel sticks get low I'm gonna read water I just match it up with the color and it has the corresponding numbers and I don't you can see this from not our videos focusing off the cameras focusing but I've gone in and read the numbers underneath the color swatch to indicate which number it is this particular line they have they have what they called tints or shade rather and is pretending and toning and basically if you're not familiar what tinting and toning is tinting and turning it is like to take her paint and painting you put it down a base layer of color and you want to make it darker you put in a darker color and I say for example we were making roses for sale with random colors you put down a white color of red and then you'll go down and put a darker color like blue or black over that and then go back over it with another color of red and that will create a tongue tinting is basically in the opposite you put down a color and then you go over with a light lighter color like a cream or a white to make it lighter and I would like another video in the series and discuss how that technique is that's more advanced I guess like I said I am NOT a very professional artist by any means but I I mostly like to do renditions I've done people will pastel paintings that are something I've tried making up but I'm more or less than a copyist if you will I like to do renditions I find it very challenging and it's an easy way to learn to develop your own skills and mostly the work I did with little pastels is impressionist type paintings and I will if you watched my intro video my introduction video you'll have seen the samples of my work and of course if you're interested in buying principies i'll leave links down in the video for you like i said i majority of what I make renditions of or painting was done by the Impressionists like Monet and Renoir I don't do very many van Gogh's I'm not very much of a fan of Van Gogh some of this work is good I like his sunflowers still alive but one of these days I'm been trying to do a rendition of that but anyway I mostly like to do landscape impressionist paintings yeah that's kind of like my style [Music] so anyway another ticks of tips that I can share with you is things that you wanted to use while doing old pastel paintings is number one I mention terpenoid to blame here you can blend with your finger if you can if you want some people blend q-tips some people blend with blending stomps or twerking and someone or called I'm not sure what kind of solvents will blend well apart from terpenoid I know they make cool pastels and there's my little helper again once again anyway there's a variety of pastels on the market that are water-soluble you can bling with water I have never actually tried those before the brand I usually use the most is been has been secured a great cause and I know this is a paper Castel okay I'm used to those pastels too for like making base layers and they're good for making base layers but they tend to be a little bit crumbly as far as them they're being student grade and artist grade these are these crepe cost Expressionists are in my opinion they're both professional grade answer to degrade professionals and students using the like a little helper has discovered my brush today but anyway I mostly used these and some of my sticks were getting kind of love and it was getting kind of expensive to buy multiple like he had to buy sets of six in order to a minimum order of six and that was going to be just about as much as the whole new set of cost so I just decided I was going to try another brand of pesto just to may see basically see what they were like so anyway oh yeah one of the tools of the trade tips is using a chip brush some people use chip brush on these artist graphite brushes basically anything is kind of soft bristle that you can go over and brush away some of the pigments that come off another useful tip is our technique is called scraping and that's basically involved with using plastic pallet knives absolutely some people use what they call the calligraphy pens the nibs on the clear book appearance that you use with the holy stick to the canister into and whatnot they have a handle that you can use some people use those I don't use scraping technique all that much sometimes I do that basically the only time I use the scraping technique is when I want to make grass and in that previous painting that I showed you the first of the video some of the graphs I hope you did will see it I'll put a picture here for you to look at but there is in this painting you can see in the bottom left hand side of the painting and I think some of the foreground I've gone into scraped and anyway I'll show you that