Oil Pastel + Watercolor look AMAZING together! 🎈 (Autumn Landscape Painting) 

I have used watercolors as a base for my soft pastel work. Takes things to a whole new level. Now I will try with my oil pastels. You have inspired me! Autumn colors are tricky, your greens need to be toned down a bit ( not yours, just in general) summer greens are vibrant. New life. Fall greens are richer, deeper, and ultimately dying , browning. I would say soften your background focus, your tree line is also too horizontal, all trees are the same height. And lastly, what is your focal point? Your individual components are fantastic, which one do you want to stand out? Dull down the rest.

When I get to that dreaded “middle area” where I think, oh, this is headed for the trash, where else could it possibly go from here…I set it aside and work on something. When I come back to it, maybe the next, or few days, I see the possibilities and can move on. This kind of works for me 😊 your painting looks great!

I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one to get overwhelmed while trying to paint fall foliage. I will definitely try to simplify my composition too - thank you for the tip and as always, the inspiration to create. Have a great weekend. ❤❤❤

Syndia - this was a great video! I so appreciate that you share your internal process and your challenge with getting frustrated, impatient and rushing through because I relate to that so much to the point that it frequently keeps me from starting anything. I'm definitely going to try the water color pencils, water color underlayer and oil pastel now. I loved your result - stunning!

I think your painting is lovely. I was surprised to hear you say that you didn't know much about painting with watercolor because just your watercolor layer looked amazing. I use watercolor and I just bought some oil pastels that I'm going to try to incorporate into my watercolor paintings. Thank you for your video. It was very helpful.

Your work is so good, I wish you could do more watercolours and oil paintings! Your process is great, honest and very reliable to many of us:)

I’ve used acrylic on watercolor landscape , I’ll try oil pastel also which I love / so blendable thanks

If this was you experimenting, you should keep doing it. This work was stunning, you minimized the number of trees but the effect was full and did not leave anything missing.

Soapy water and a sponge for the fingers; they are good friends.

Have you ever tried water soluble pastels? (Artist loft makes a small cheaper set) They go down like regular pastel but then you can activate them with water and get a watercolour effect.

such lovely colouring 😀 yeah getting oil pastel under your nails is so annoying, no matter how many time i wash my hands i always miss some of the pastels

PS: I'm a jazz pianist (semi-retired) and adored the background music you selected. Do you know whose recording it is? I'd love to get it. Thanks again!

8:46 What was your paper? I simply don't get. Thank you so much. one of the best videos I've seen recently.

I love oil pastels but I always wear thin gloves as I hate it under my nails 😂

Thank you for sharing! Love the painting!

Great idea, and I'll keep this in mind as I (hopefully!) get better with my artwork. Thank you!

Yes I do watercolour underlay if I want large areas of smooth or graduated wash-like effects underneath oil pastels. For smaller areas like clouds in a blue sky with grey in the clouds I can get away with oil pastel rubbed on with a solvent dampened cloth. But I can't get large smooth areas this way (I'm still working on it). And it does differ from one paper to another - I'm using HP watercolour paper throughout. There are three makes I have used - all are slightly different. Nice to see the oil pastels come out again. I use them all the time now.

Thanks for your inspiration, I’m going to try it out.

Lovely colours Syndia 😍

Wow amazing photos !

Oil Pastel!! Thanks for showing the way to combine these. Great job. Trees are so hard to draw... From watching your process videos and doing some things myself, I'm finding that the more "planning" I do, the better result I get. Sometimes it's "how do I represent this texture" and other times it's more about the composition. I think one of the other benefits of oil pastel is that you get a more immediate and quick result (compared to waiting for paints to dry). Great job!

These vlogs never fail to inspire me! I love working with oil pastels, and after seeing what you did here, I plan to work on a piece combining them with watercolor (another of my loves!). Your painting is absolutely beautiful, and I enjoyed seeing your process and technique. Thank you for always being a highlight of my week!

Love the oil pastel work. It has a warmth and depth to it. And once again, sharing your thoughts on the process is so helpful. Sometimes you clear questions that I have, and sometimes you give me whole new things to think about. Thank you so much.🙏🧡🍁🧡🙏

I’ve never tried watercolour with oil pastels,your painting I thought looked pretty good love to see more of this sort of painting technique. I have been doing a lot of acrylic painting but I’m not very good at it so I might try your idea and see how I get on with that, thanks for a great vlog.😊❤

I paint in watercolor mainly but I did one year of soft pastels (not oil) and I have used a watercolor underpainting with pastels on top. It worked for me to use very vivid watercolor and then details with pastels. Fun.

Love your art as always !!!

It came out beautiful! 😊