Painting a Marsh Landscape - The Beauty of Pastel with Bethany Fields 

Hi everyone! Here is the blogpost that has step-by-step photos and materials used: www.bethanyfieldsblog.com/painting-marsh-landscape/

Bethany, what a wonderful video. I feel like I've watched you mature as an artist and your teaching style is fun and articulate and very helpful and reassuring. Look forward to all your videos.

Thank you so much, for sharing this wonderful tutorial! ✨️🙏❤ Greetings from Sweden! 🇸🇪

Lovely!

Bethany, You are an upbeat, encouraging teacher and a pleasure to watch. The marsh picture is lovely and I enjoyed watching the underpainting and the following layers of pastel. Your discussion of the light touch issue informative. It is SO easy to fill the tooth of the paper quickly and get lost in heavy pastel that won't accept highlights. Thank you!

You are such a great teacher. I have learned a lot from watching your RU-vid videos. Keep them coming. I am a retiree stuck in the house because Covid. Need you.

After watching a couple of your videos I thought I'd give pastel another try and boy, am I glad I did. I'm really having fun.

That is so beautiful! You are a master.

Thank you Bethany. Very thoughtful of you to release the video. Lovely painting. And also I really appreciate your step-by-step instructions. You are a lovely person 🌷

Bethany I loved this lesson. Not only are you a great artist you are a wonderful expressive teacher. You explain what you are doing and why in a very clear manner. You also have a lovely voice. I have recently moved over from watercolor painting to pan and pastel pencils. I am thoroughly enjoying the process and that's why I love your videos because I am learning so much. Please keep them coming.

Thank you Bethany for this tutorial. I think your pastel painting is so much more interesting and beautiful than original photo.

I love your mark making - thanks 😀

Love the use of glazing, warm and cool colors, and letting the complementary underpainting remain in the foreground. Also enjoyed how you added the building with just a stroke of the roof and more definition of the surrounding trees. Marshes are my favorite subject! Keep ‘em coming 😁

Hello Bethany - first time viewing your videos and I love it!!! Love the way you go thru it slowly, with a full explanation of your reasoning for your methods.....thank you - great job teaching - love it....

Wow, Bethany, thank you SO much for this video. I have learned SOOOOO much watching it as a beginner. I was feeling SO frustrated with my painting but now after watching this one video of yours, I feel I can make beautiful art. I am feeling tearful now, just typing this. I have a passion for art but I was feeling frustrated and I have learned so much from this video. Thank you so much for posting this free tutorial. You are such a blessing to watch and you explain things so well. I think doing an under painting is going to change things greatly for me. I did purchase some clear gesso that I was putting on top of watercolor paper but I was not able to get many layers in and it was eating up my pastel too quickly. But I can see now by the way you did this painting, that I can use that clear gesso once again (I bought a BIG bottle of it - lol) to save $$ on pastel paper b/c pastels and papers are so expensive and being retired now and with the current covid situation, I have to watch my $$ closely. God bless you for sharing your expertise with all of us. I'll be looking forward to more videos. It is so rare to find real time art tutorial videos. Signing off from Southern California, Renee

The overall effect has this impressionistic feel...wonderful!

Thank you so much for taking the time to walk us through this painting step by step. I have been wanting to paint a marsh landscape but I've had trouble. I really like the underpainting using alcohol. Thank you!!

Love your mark making. Would never have thought to use this technique for water and it's lovely. Very pleasing scene done so well.

Hi Bethany your one of my favorite pastel artist, thank you for posting this lesson on RU-vid.

Chapeau madame sublime. Merci

Thank you very much! It was really helpful! ❤

Thank you so much Bethany I really enjoyed the step by step instructions, it really helped me to understand composition, as well as tone and color temperature, I am a beginner with pastel so it is really helpful. I will continue to watch your tutorials to improve my technique 😀

Gorgeous

Such a beautiful painting! I love your style, Bethany!

Nice work in your painting

Keep working on it; you’re improving. A friend reaches for the hand and she touches your heart

Amazing work!

Love this! Thank you!

Thank you so much! I am newer to the art world and I have fallen in love with pastels! This was such a helpful tutorial. I learned so much. I didn't paint along since it is getting late, but am so excited to try this tomorrow, especially with the alcohol underpainting. I really loved that look. I have subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos!

It's fantastic 😍

You are a wonderful, concise instructor! I am new to pastels and to landscapes ~ so plan to learn a lot from you! Will check out your Patreon site!

I painted along with you but as with watercolor, paper and quality materials matter. I will invest in some. thank you for sharing your talent!

Wonderful

Super! Bravo! Merci! 🤗🤩🌹☀️🌲🌟

Awesome 😎😍❤️

Your working is very great

Lovely Painting! I just found you and subscribed!

amezing

Hi Bethany, I absolutely love your style and ease of your art! I've been painting with acrylics for a while and really want to do pastels since I've seen your work! Could you tell me which brand of pastels you use and any other material you use! Thanks a million! Charles

Thank you so much for your clear concise instruction and for sharing your talent. Love it and want MORE of the same x

Bethany looks like a Model. So pretty! And her art is magnificent.

What type of fixative or varnish do you use? It's a question, thank you for your video and your answer.

My medium is watercolors, but still learned so much! Thank you. Pastels look like a fabulous medium. The paper appears to be more expensive than cotton watercolor paper. Would you say the pastels themselves stretch longer than a tube of watercolor paint?

HELLO BETHANY, BEAUTIFUL WORK!!! CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU GET YOUR TERRY LUGWELL, DIANE TOWNSEND AND REMBRANDT PASTELS SO SMALL. I HAVE THEM IN HALF STICKS, BUT YOURS SEEM TO BE ABLE TO EASILY DO SUCH LOVELY DETAILED PASSAGES. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KIND GENEROUS EXPERTISE.

Hi Bethany. Lovely tutorial. Can I ask you if there is anything else you can use in place of Isopropyl alcohol in your under painting? Thanks for sharing (-: Marion

Hi Bethany! Thanks for the lessons and congratulations on your channel. I'm a acrylic painter but i'm really interested in pastels. I wanted to ask you a question regarding making your own pastel paper. I live in Brazil and we don't get a lot of pastel paper options here. Its basicaly Canson Mi-Teintes Touch and Pastelmat, and they are both quite expensive. My question is, have you tried pastel grounds or another type of acrylic ground for pastels on watercolor paper to paint on? I've seen some videos on youtube about that and it might be the easiest way for me to DIY my surfaces, considering my country. But I wanted to know how it compares to the real deal, like Uart / Colourfix papers, in terms of holding the pastels safely, blending and all the important stuff, so I can decide in which I'll invest when visiting the US. Thanks again

Is rubbing alcohol any different from hardware white alcohol? Thank you!

Have you ever done any videos on ways to practice different techniques?

Love your work. Do you have to use a certain weight paper to use the alcohol?

Regarding Patreon, do you provide reference images to learn from?

Hi. Can I use some hard pastels too?

Hi really great What kind of paper you use ?

how do you sign your pastels?

Hi Bethany, what kind of paper are you using?

How do u fix ur artwork? Which fixative?

Can you please show us the hOtel color on the Cecil along , this is very familiar , thanks

What brand of fan brushes do you use?

Your good content is rewarded by a thumb up by Abdullah Nasher the 3d animator and artist.

beautiful. Why is it called painting if you're not using paint?

What do you think of prismacolor unpasteurized? Lmao pastels

Nice painting video but way, way too many ads. It is so disruptive. I'm paying $5/mo to support this RU-vid channel and wonder why you have to have so many commercials?

Bethany, it is absolutely criminal that you don't have hundreds of thousands of followers. The amount of knowledge you share in one video is crazy. I recommend you to all my art friends but sadly that's not many 🥹 you are so talented

I understand why you and others have ads on your videos but seriously 18 in one video? Sorry but that’s ridiculous