How I Seal My Charcoal on Canvas Art - UPDATE! 

Nice job, Joel.

Wow, what an incredible artist! I'm a graphite artist that just started using charcoal more often in my artwork, and your pieces are incredible. This gave me so many ideas of what I could try, including canvas and the oil paint glaze you use. What an amazing talent you have!

Thank you for sharing this!! Beautiful work!

Thanks for sharing! Beautiful work!

I am brand new to charcoal… This was incredibly helpful. I just did my first one on canvas and couldn’t grasp how people made this work. Thank you so much!

Absolutely stunning pieces. What a talent ❤❤❤

Hi Joel, Thanks for the update! Much appreciated. Take care and God bless you and yours 😊

I was sooo nervous when you started the isolation coat. You’re amazing.

You are truly blessed with a great talent

Wonderful work! Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

Thank you for sharing and unless tell you that your work is beyond amazing

Brilliant work

Brilliant Work. Thank you so much for sharing.

That's beautiful! Wow!!!

Your work is awesome and you made me switch to charcoal on canvas!!! 😊

Wow amazing painting

Wow great pic. Thanks for the tutorial. Very informative❤

Love love your work

Great job on the drawings 👍

Amazing!

very useful. Thank you

Hi @Joel Pitcher, I got interested in your channel and I subscribed. I just wanna see more of your charcoal on canvas and the sealing process as well. Could you please show us how you put epoxy resin after you fully coated your artwork with the glossy isolation coat and varnish? Thanks

thanks a lot

You are an incredible artist! I did not know how to properly preserve my work until today. Thank you so much. I would like to know the brand of Acrylic paint you prefer. It made me curious as why you went with paint instead of fine erasing. Have you experimented with watercolor and/or oil with charcoal

Hi Joel, I took up your challenge to do a charcoal sketch on a A2 canvas pad. Very interesting to work with and I struggled with erasing on the canvas. Does the gesso make the erasing part easier? I have used white pancils for added highlights and details in the hair but unfortunately much of this detail has been lost after applying the fixative coating, the charcoal also has gone darker especially the shades in the face, is this a problem that you also face or do you think it might be the fixative spray that I'm using thats messing up all my hard work?

Great video and so helpful! Did you ever use any fixative spray throughout the process of your artwork or before applying first coat of matte spray?

Watching your videos are so inspiring...thank you for sharing Do you use a certain type of canvas ..?

Thank you for this excellent tutorial! I work on canvas with acrylic and charcoal but when I use the fixative spray it doesn't seal completely. How many layers of the krylon matte spray do you use for your paintings?

Joel...am drawing a white polar bear with white charcoal and soft white chalk. If I spray on the acetone won't it darken the white bear? Thanks...love your work and instruction videos.

Hello! I’ve just entered a bit of a rabbit hole watching your channel. Great videos! You are very generous with your knowledge, thank you. What an awesome idea to draw on canvas, I also don’t like to draw on paper that much. I have a question: the Krylon Matt is like a matt varnish? I don’t have Krylon in my country. Thank you. God bless you.

I am new to charcoal. I have a piece done on tone paper, that I would like to seal without having to frame it. Would the varnish work on the paper? I could apply the paper to a board, but I really would not like to have to cover it with glass. Thank you.

Does the bounce in the canvas bother you as you draw? I was wondering if putting a piece of MDF behind the canvas would help.

Amazing! Do you prep your canvas in a certain way before you start a piece?

Hi Joel, do you think this process can work on paper?

wow! Isolation coat is the golden soft gel gloss? and is it 2 parts gel and 1 part water?

Hi Joel, do you think this process can work on paper? i have a work on paper that i want to seal.

Is the soft bell gloss the isolation coat he is referring to?

Hi Joel, I'm working on charcoal portraits on a Canson Mixed Media paper. Can you please suggest process and products to seal my drawings? I want to get a gloss finish but I'm little scared of the portrait getting smudged or darkening.

What's the coating if you could write down

Can you mention the name of the products you used?

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Hello,I asked you about the final work on this work.Please which substance did you apply first and which substance did you apply last?I want to know she order of their names.I have Artists Fixative for pastel ,charcoal and pensil .Can I refer to what I bought in the form of a sprey? Good luck.Hope to see your new works.

After the varnish dries can I add acrylic paint to a it ?

Also, where do you buy your canvases from?

How many coats of Krylon Archival Matte do you use?

I've tried something similar but on paper and I find that brushing on the medium seems to dissolve the fixative and disturb the underlying charcoal Admittedly I didn't use krylon but I did use a spay that was labelled for charcoal and graphite

where do you get your reference photos?

What do you apply before you start drawing with charcoal??

Would this be good to do on a canvas that is on a plywood?

The bitch of it is, I've been drawing on canvas with carcoal seance the 90's. I live in hawaii and only do seacapes.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. If I may suggest that you eliminate the music, I find it distracting to your purpose of education rather than entertainment. Or at least turn the recorded volume down. Thank you for the inspiration.

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