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Thank you, Matt. This was a wonderful demonstration/tutorial. I just visited Blick Art materials store and purchased several 9x12 sheets of various pastel papers to try and a set of Rembrandt pastels Tuesday, so this was perfect timing. Thanks again.
26:36 my understanding, if for example you look for "how to make your own gesso" they have you mixing talc, or cornstarch, or baking soda with acrylic to give it tooth. So if I were to try to paint over an oil painting I'd mix something tooth-y with oil. Doesn't have to be white, either.
Dear Matt, thanks a lot for this wonderful time of making art. I do love these landscape drawings in soft pastels. I hope you have a fantastic day too, Buddy
Hi Matt You reference the colors you are using as a lighter or darker blue, etc. Can you provide a list of the name of the blues and other pastels you are using? Thanks
After years of effort, kinda hard not to lose hope. I don't think I can, but also, I want to be wrong. I keep trying, but I feel lost in every sense of the way.
That's a very dramatic account! No i can't say that describes my experience. I don't think I get that elated and confident for starters. Certainly not bombastic .... I'm always going through the process with a certain amount of trepidation and uncertainty, or at least caution, so it's not going to come crashing down in a single brush stroke! Also, I'm constantly making small adjustments along the way and the only times where I've totally wrecked a painting is when I've been going at the whole thing with an unusual amount of energy and carelessness. My biggest mistake is simply overworking the painting, but even if I do, viewers don't necessarily notice what I'm seeing. Whilst I would like to achieve the desired effect with less paint strokes, lines and or marks, people still appreciate what I've created. So it's just something I need to keep aiming for. 😊🙏🩵
Hah, I never get tired of these videos. I started drawing when I was 16 and put my nose to the grindstone to become something great. To become someone who could bring the beauty inside them out to show the rest of the world. Turns out, hard work and dedication are nothing without aptitude. Lacking in nothing but aptitude, that grindstone carved my face right off my skull! It's like the fire triangle: You need Aptitude, Practice and Hard work and Access to Art History/Fundamentals. Lack any one of those three things and one fails to take off. I am 40 now. Having scoured the cursed earth that lies in every direction outside of "Being an Artist" I can tell you in no uncertain terms that there is something I lack that makes you different from me. I know what it is because I have turned over every stone outside the golden city of opulence you live within trying to find even one shred of an advantage that might hoist me in there alongside you! And the litmus test of what I have learned is easy to find! If anyone wants proof, just ask the people running admissions to Gobelins what they're looking for during the admissions process. They'll tell you that it's not enough to demonstrate that one is talented, as you say. One must demonstrate that they have aptitude within which they have yet to grow! This can be seen in the art one is making while still an amateur and shows up in the overall work-body of aspiring artists of all ages. It's is easy to spot when pointed out and men casually make their livings being able to do exactly that! You are special and different from others. More over, you're terrified we'll catch wise. I stumbled upon this fact by doggedly, stupidly and meticulously removing all other variables until the pointlessness of two decades of hard and ugly effort stared me straight in the face. I wasted my life doing exactly what you suggest in this video only to end up right back where I started! Something more than hard work has been needed and it has always been so! The fact we keep saying 'talent' is the fault of the language. I just think people just resort to that word because it's more common and, what a gift that it helps control the conversation. Pheh!
Using blending stumps on the right paper (as you mentioned) and working on a glass surface has been a game changer for me. Thank you so much for this lesson.
