Patricia pilipuf I really like the fact that you dont need to cover all the bits of red and orange. It is a painterly result. I have tried it myself, but so far I haven't been successful. I have set aside a small tablet of pastel paper for trying out different strokes and color combinations At this point I feel I need to practice rather than just painting pictures. Thank you for being so generous with your knowlege.
Ok ditto to all the other comments but i wanted to add that watching a master at his craft is so inspiring and i feel like the magician just revealed the secret to his trick (sorry I’m French and the sounded better in my head than now typed) thank you so much for this video filled with informative gems!
Hi Christine, it sounded beautiful. Thank you! That is very kind, I'm glad you enjoyed. All the best to you, and now you can use the magic in your work!
Thank you! I painted along with you and had a great time. I'm a beginner to pastels and I am totally in love with this medium!! I will look forward to another video of yours.
This is so inspirational, taking the wonderful colours we are blessed with to their limits, your strategies and chromas wow! I love it...thank you so much, you have taught me so much, my greens are no longer alone! thank you from the UK!
Thanks Kerry, I'm glad you like it! Let me know if you have any interest in buying it, and it could be framed on your wall someday! Anyway, all the best to you!
@@AlainPicard Sadly at the moment my finances don't stretch to it, but who knows my lottery ticket might come up this weekend and then you will be hearing from me. :-)
Your videos are always wonderful, as is this one. I have to smile when I watch you speak to us, your devoted followers. You always sound so sweet. I love to paint landscapes and green is truly a challenge. Red and orange underpaintings certainly help give the greens depth. Thank you very much for sharing so much talent and insight with us.
Dana Barunas thanks for all your very kind comments, you are really being nice. I love teaching and sharing with all of you, and it’s great to be appreciated like this!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Love the reds you started with! I watched once then picked up my pastels and painted along with you the second time I watched! Please keep them coming! Learning much from you my friend!
Linda Chamberlin that’s awesome that you painted along with me! So glad this was helpful and inspiring for you. Thank you for your kind comments! All the best
I am brand new to pastels. Absolutely love your style, painterly, loose. Your teaching style is really exceptional. Ive done acrylic then watercolor now pastel (6 yrs mixed media). I Try to draw paint everyday. So glad u r out here teaching us. Ive only done 4 pieces to date but so excited to learn from your site. ❤
Hey thanks, and I'm excited for you! Keep exploring, pastel is an amazing medium, with lots of flexibility to use your previous knowledge in acrylic and watercolor. I have a fun mark-making course if you ever want to try something a bit more structured as you learn! You can check it out here if you want: learn.picardstudio.com/mark-making All my best!
what great information - I just took some photos this morning here in Minnesota and it is green green green! You have given me insight on how to develop a good painting using red as an underpainting. Thank you!
Merci pour vos tutoriels. J’ai regardé avec attention et beaucoup de plaisir, certaines vidéos plusieurs fois 😊 Merci encore pour vos conseils, so inspiring !
Thank you so much for replying back to me, Alain. Thank you for your kind words. I really love your videos and hope you continue to do many more. I wish you all the best to you too, especially with your artistic talent and creative, relaxing videos. They are just so soothing and educational at the same time. Green is definitely an amazing color to work with and I hope you will use Green in many more future videos. Good Luck and Much Love 👍😘!
Alain, thank you for the great strategies you've shared! They're really useful! I especially like it how the reds look under the green in your painting! It brings so much life into it. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you for sharing! This is a wonderful video. I love making use of red violets, wine, and eggplant when I have a lot of green. I always look forward to your videos, they’re a great resource for artists.
That's so great, Dawn, thanks for letting me know! It's so exciting to connect with artists across the globe like yourself. I wish you the very best in your work. Keep painting!
Thank you Jessica, it was an honor to receive. Would be great if you can make it next time, IAPS is a wonderful experience and very inspiring for all. Take care!
Jane Lintern/Oxford - Hi Alain - just got back to videos after a while: Yes - loved watching this one - a lot to learn and take in. Thanks! Hope all's well.
Love the videos. I am in NJ. All green. I have been trying the alcohol underpainting. I have a good amount of unison pastels. I bought some soho for more vibrant colors in the set. Much to my dismay, they don’t react well to alcohol. 1 swipe of the brush and most of the pigment washes off. Just putting that tip out there. I hope to look up one of your workshops next year. Broke my leg so travel is limited.
cora kiceniuk thanks for the reply, and I am very sorry about your leg! Also about the negative results of the soho pastels. I don’t think they are a quality brand. Unison are amazing though! All the best
Yeah, I know soho was a cheap choice. With the leg I need light packing items for plein air. My Heilman box is weighty. I fell in love with plein air painting years ago. Now, I am trying to get organized, safe and convenient way. My canes and I can’t carry the heilman box, hahaha.
Now I know what’s wrong with my landscapes. Too much bright green! I was trying to copy nature instead of interpreting it. Thank you Alain for teaching us so kindly.
I do digital portraits on my channel but I've been thinking about doing landscapes digitally just to see if I can do it... your video actually helped me understand how o could possibly do it digitally.
This might really be a silly question but I am an oil painter and no glass is used when framing. Do you frame all your paintings with glass? When you were mounting the paper in the video I saw some framed pieces and I couldn't figure out if there was glass over them. Thanks! Love your work. I am a newbe at pastels.
Hello Alain, beautiful work in painting and teaching. I see that you use rather vertical strokes even for the elements that are in linear perspectives, such as river bands. I am curious about it, is it a technical reason or just a personal type of stokes that you enjoy? Thanks a lot.
Simona Palosan thanks for the observations and questions. I do like the visual appeal of some vertical strokes, but in longer paintings when I have more time for layering i will typically sit the shapes down more within the planes and linear perspective. This was a very quick painting so it stayed pretty choppy. But I do love the mark making and being bold.
Hi Alain Enjoyed the video. I might have to do more landscapes and fewer portraits. You make them so exciting. I do have a questions about pastels. Do you take the papers off all of your pastels. I received a set of Henri Roche pastels which I treasure. I feel limited in my mark making with them as I have not taken off their papers. Do I have your permission to remove their wrappers? It sounds silly but they are very special and I want to keep them being pastel "victims". Thank you so much
That was so much fun to watch and I could feel how you were enjoying making those beautiful strokes of color. I couldn't take my eyes off of the transformation. Thank you for providing us with so much useful content. I always learn from you.
Merci d'avoir transformé une couleur pas très évidente en un si beau tableau. Merci pour votre pédagogie et je me souviendrai que le violet se marie bien avec le vert. Merci encore de Paris.
I'm glad I found your channel. This was a fantastic lesson with a gorgeous little painting. I am looking into going to your in person workshops. Thank you!!!
Alain, slow to get to this. As you certainly know life gets in the way. LOVED this video. Again, High quality and just when I think...."no he is not gonna catch that glaring stroke"....YOU get it and I climb down off the cliff and finish enjoying the video. You are always so generous with your knowledge and I did learn something new. I have never heard green and violets are friends. I will have to tell my granddaughter that as well. Well done and look forward to the next one. Thank you.
Alain - I absolutely love your videos. I've recently started art in quarantine and my soft pastels and pastel paper arrive on Monday. I will be trying this as soon as they arrive. Thank you.
Again, a great workshop! Love the effect of the red underpaint on the green. Not sure whether it's something you do, but would also love a workshop on more abstract painting.
P0L0K0P thanks for the kind words and the feedback. I don’t currently do pure abstracts, but I think a-lot about the abstract elements. Would be an interesting theme to explore!
Great lesson! I just started with pastels, and every information i can get is very helpful. You’re using 70% alcohol, would 75% work as well, or is that too strong already? I couldn’t find the other one, sadly. Thank you!
Hi Lydia, all the varying percentages of alcohol will work great, but they just dry faster if they have a higher percentage of alcohol, because less water is added. 75% will work really well. Enjoy and keep painting!
I took a moment to go look at the study you did for your under painting video that was also of rice fields and I understand that painting a little better, it seems to solve the green question you don’t use green? In the video on under painting you do use the violet range but leave much unfinished, but it is just a study. I am having trouble with this picture as I am not seeing your green resolution. I think this is an amazing painting! I find it very impressionistic and your expertise is not to be denied, I just wanted to see more greens and maybe a better way to mix them? Thank you for sharing this very beautiful picture, I will continue to watch and learn to the best of my ability. Please keep posting your videos and showing your extraordinary talent with this baffling medium! Have a Grand Day!
