This is the last Soft Pastel portrait video I made for my Youtube Instructional channel. I have decided to edit this video in a different way this time. It goes slower than the others and it is also larger… Almost 25 minutes! The double than my other pastel portrait videos. This is because several of […]
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Back to the Instructional videos
I recently published a new video for my youtube instructional channel and I´m so happy! 🙂 I did not expect this immediate warm reaction, from so many good people out there… and their sincere welcome back after two years missing! I definitely will film some new pastel portraits in-process in the following months and, If I have […]
Continue readingA new pastel portrait. The process step by step
I made this portrait a few weeks ago. It was a request from a very special and charming woman, who is in love with her little granddaughter. The photos were “homemade” with a sidelight coming from the window. Sometimes it happens! We capture something special with the lens of our camera and this is what […]
Continue readingHow to prepare the pictures for the portraits when there is more than one kid in the family?
I have been asked so many times about this matter! Making several portraits of brothers and sisters with different ages that will be placed on the same wall, or room…How to prepare the process? Which pictures to chose? At what ages? These questions are recurrent and even more important when you decide to work with […]
Continue readingOdilon Redon and his Pastel technique
After my last visit to the Pastel exhibition in Barcelona, I felt very pensive about Redón’s works… I knew that the pastels of this surrealist painter had a power of color, very different from the others. But after seeing his works live, I was really surprised by the texture, the structure and this velvet feeling […]
Continue readingA still life Pastel painting, enjoying the colors.
It was long ago when I did my last still life Pastel painting. Normally I do Pastel portraits that capture all my attention but I had this particular desire and joy to paint a simple still life set up for the first time in years… I almost forgot how liberating and relaxing the still life […]
Continue readingIn the “Ochre heart” of Provence, Roussillon, part 1
In the Ochre heart of Provence, Roussillon. Following the colors, I arrived in Roussillon. The land of Ochres. A trip has many meanings. In the Cambridge dictionary, we read; “a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again”. But a trip is also a search, a change in itself. The trip is movement, discovery and […]
Continue readingPastel portrait of a Little girl, my art in the making
There are not exact answers on how to paint a face, or how to draw a realistic portrait. We all have different stiles, favorite art materials, techniques and no one has “the formula”, but it is always interesting to see how other painters work. Working on my posts, I have realized there are some patterns […]
Continue readingStep by step Pastel portrait painting of a young boy with his favourite hat.
This is a step by step Pastel portrait painting of a young boy with his favorite hat. I took several pictures of him inside doors, playing with the lights and the shadows, inspired by his strong personality. I choose an image where his pure and innocent look observed me intensively. I felt it could be […]
Continue readingHow to make good photos for painting portrait? Reflexions on how to turn your photo into a painting. (part 1)
From photo to painting. That is the question. (Reflexions about to turn your photo into a painting.) Starting this post I had several questions in my mind; How to paint a portrait form a photo? All the pictures work for painting a portrait? Or a better one to start from the beginning… How to choose […]
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