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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The 18thCentury as a Mirror Although pastel is a technique saw a formidable rise in popularity during the 18thcentury, to the pointed situating itself as an equal in comparison to other techniques, it never managed to fully conquer its legitimacy versus oil painting. Its intrinsic fragility and the fact that it is used as a […]
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This is a Pastel portrait I ´m very happy with! The girl is really beautiful in a graceful way and because of that, it was quite difficult and delicate to capture her well… I´ve enjoyed making her portrait and fortunately, I have several pictures taken during the process. I´ve worked this painting on Canson Mi […]
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After visiting the mines, we took the car and not far away, only two kilometers, we found the old Mathieu factory. An old ocher factory, which produced about 1,000 tons of material a year, until 1963. It was then abandoned for many years until Barbara and Mathieu Barrois discovered the place, felt in love and decide […]
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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 […]
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Like most of the pastelists out there I also keep lots of tiny pieces of soft Pastel. What can we do with them? Can we recycle them? I keep them selected by color ranges. Many small pieces into a lot of small boxes and pots that accumulate over time, waiting for their moment… Most of […]
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I made this Pastel portrait, step by step, a few months ago. It is the third portrait commission I get from this family. This time my model was a beautiful young girl dressed in ‘faralaes’, something very characteristic of southern Spain. I only had at my disposition low-quality photos, taken from afar and with a […]
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