3 Wet Pastel Techniques...using alcohol or water

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3 ай бұрын

Alcohol and water are used by many artists, called wet pastel techniques, to start paintings. Pastelist Avon Waters demonstrates three ways to begin a pastel paintings, using alcohol in two of the ways and water in the third way. There are many ways to begin a pastel painting and many ways to use wet media in pastels, normally considered a dry media. There are also many ways to use wet materials or wet pastel techniques that are not just in the beginning of a painting but during a pastel painting. This video doesn't address those methods, but instead focus on the way beginning artists can use alcohol and water to start pastels. Avon Waters also says artists can use different kinds of alcohol, such as Everclear, Vodka, or denatured alcohol. Here he uses rubbing alcohol to start the pastel painting. By using alcohol beginners can quickly fill in the paper with values and color rather than blending with only dry pastels. Wet alcohol washes and water washes fill in the blank paper faster than just applying dry media and blending it into the nooks and crannies of the tooth of the pastel paper.
Art releieves the stress of our daily lives and work, and getting started in pastels, painting in pastels, and painting landscapes or any other genre, doesn’t have to be stressful or cause you pain. Art should bring your happiness and the early episodes of videos by Avon Waters on how to get started in art using pastel and pastel painting help you toward the goal of learning art, and living a happy life. Happiness through art is the ultimate goal of videos by nationally recognized pastel artist Avon Waters.
INDEX by Subject of Long-form Videos by Avon Waters
Episode 1: What pastel is right for you…soft vs hard pastel
Episode 2: Introduction to Mixing pastels, how to extend the number of colors you have
Episode 3: Introduction to color wheels and basics, beginning color theory
Episode 4: Absolute Best Pastel Paper, or, what paper might be right for your style of painting
Episode 5: Part 1, How to select the right picture for your first pastel, how to copy others to succeed
Episode 6: Part 2 of copying to learn to make art, blocking in color and large shapes by copying other artists
Episode 7: Three Ways to Start a pastel using Alcohol and Water

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@bdcorgimom Ай бұрын

So interesting - I never knew you could do that with pastels! That is something I will try.

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

It can be messy the first few times but hang in there…the pay off is worth it.

@michelef.1236 3 ай бұрын

Avon, I notice the thumbs up doesn't seem to be registering properly or at all. Thank you for your classes, which I find more measured and quiet than most of the soft pastel teaching video teaching. You work at a reasonable speed and speak quietly, which helps me at least to better absorb significant details. And you film effectively, eliminating distracting objects or movement in the work area.

@PastelWithAvon 3 ай бұрын

Oh, thank you so much for the feedback….Im still learning all this and the pacing and such. Hopefully all those tutorials don’t ruin the real me, lol.

@michelef.1236 3 ай бұрын

And the thumbs up is registering now! @@PastelWithAvon

@maritabuttigieg2708 Ай бұрын

Yes it is😮

@sueaberle935 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the great video, i could listen to you all day.

@PastelWithAvon 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. Maybe one day Ill have enough videos that you could bing “listen “ all day, lol. Thanks for watching

@brunildamarrero2095 Ай бұрын

Wow! Must say this was very helpful thank you, I’m going to try with both.🖌️

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

Super! Other vids have other wet pastel techniques to try too. Thanks for watching v

@judithgoulden972 2 ай бұрын

Thank you , enjoying you tutorials

@PastelWithAvon 2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@patriciadavis2545 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. I’m in a pastel class and have used the alcohol with pastel ( with complimentary colors). I will try charcoal w/ alcohol and pastel with water.! I can attest that the alcohol with pastel makes a mess!

@PastelWithAvon 3 ай бұрын

The water is just as messy. But it can be less messy if you limit the brush work by just pulling a few grays out of your darkest marks and not try covering the whole area as I did. Thanks for watching.

@kimlanoue2033 Ай бұрын

Perfect Avon!

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

Thanks. See you soon.

@muhlenstedt Ай бұрын

Great tutorial! Thank you very much!

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting

@sandygarrett6098 Ай бұрын

❤ this!

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

Thanks.

@karenbradford9434 2 ай бұрын

Thank you great tutorials 😊❤

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

Glad you like them! I will be doing a lot more on wet pastel techniques and values

@Jenny-yl2hw 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this informative tutorial,,

@PastelWithAvon 2 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Thanks for watching too, Im learning so I hope the editing gets moe precise

@aidasoto2936 Ай бұрын

Mis ideas experimentos mi trabajo mis teorias.

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

No entiendo muy bien tu comentario. Me podrias explicar? Gracias!

@jacqulineloncke8696 Ай бұрын

Thanks you for sharing with me 💯 support much 💯 ❤ 😊 😀 👍 😘 💯

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

Not a problem, thank you too!

@nicoleperron3315 2 ай бұрын

What is the archival quality when you add alcohol? Does it damage the paper? Is rhere a special paper you use?

@PastelWithAvon 2 ай бұрын

No issues…the alcohol ethanols evaporate as they chemically bond with oxygen leaving only H2O which is harmless

@kbrnz5744 2 ай бұрын

I am not clear if you are working with oil pastels or soft pastels or does that distinction even matter?

@PastelWithAvon 2 ай бұрын

Oh, great question…Im working in soft pastel. Oil pastels are closer to oil sticks and oil paint and would not mix with acrylic gesso or water based mediums but you can use oil based mediums like gambasol, turp, oil mediums for underpainting but must let them dry before using soft pastels over them-generally speaking.

@nicoleperron3315 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating, when I tried pastels years ago before the internet, I just used my fingers to blend and never thought to mix them with water or alcohol, same for charcoal, it was the beautiful jewel tones that sucked me in but I eventually went to watercolors because of the huge mess I would make with the pastels. They were in my hair on my face on my hands in the rug on the table on my clothes up my nose 😂 just everywhere.

@maritabuttigieg2708 Ай бұрын

😂

@nicoleperron3315 3 ай бұрын

Geeez I wish I'd known this years ago, none of the art books from the library and tutorials said to use water or alcohol! Way before KZfaq. I'm now playing with inks and saw liquid charcoal for sale in a tube, so that's how I ended up on your video. Now what kind of paper are you using? Because you don't mention it and I do watercolors and the type of paper is the most important thing to avoid buckling and ripling. Years ago the sketching paper I used would have been distroyed with water, so I am so curious.

@PastelWithAvon 3 ай бұрын

Nitram Liquid Charcoal? Great Idea, I bought a tube of that years ago and didn't even think of that. I was using an old pastel that I washed off. Originally it was a sanded U-art paper but I had added clear gesso during the last creation process so it had an added texture from that. Watercolor paper is what a lot of pastelist friends use when using wet medium. There are some heavy mix media papers I've used that stand up.....I find that as the sizes get larger than 11x14 or 12x16 some of those might get a bubble or too or small wave unless dry mounted. And Uart in rolls curls unless dry mounted. Hope that helps

@nicoleperron3315 3 ай бұрын

@@PastelWithAvon yes thank you

@The3383 Ай бұрын

What @@nicoleperron3315

@triciaringquist6723 Ай бұрын

I’m way too organized to do that. Crap I don’t like my drawings all muddy up like that……. too hard to rework the papers already saturated not for me but thanks. I know you’re probably a great teacher. It just doesn’t work for me.!

@PastelWithAvon Ай бұрын

I TOTALLY understand. It is messy and I appreciate your willingness to watch and honesty.