Pastel portrait techniques and tutorial with Lyn Diefenbach

Pastel portrait techniques and tutorial with Lyn Diefenbach | Colour In Your Life

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5 жыл бұрын

Learn how to draw a portrait with pastels -Lyn Diefenbach Instructional Video
Lyn Diefenbach is one of our Colour in Your Life featured artists. You can see more about her workshops here.
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@JAsisterti 4 жыл бұрын

Lyn, I just love watching any video you're in, you are just so full of life, and super generous with your sharing, Thanks Graeme for you and your team bringing her again to us. And, I feel like folks have a right to say what they feel, others have a right to respond, as long as it stays respectful. For my two cents, here's a generous free (to us) sharing of an artist's technique and process, in an overview format. We have the option of going to a workshop for more! Of course it's also to highlight Lyn and her work. To the team: it may help not to have 'tutorial' i the title, or have 'short/ overview tutorial' for clarity. Thank you!

@emilyadams6194 10 ай бұрын

Lyn, I have to say that you are one of the best if not THE best pastellist I have come across! It is such a pleasure and so informative to watch you work. Your portraits are just wonderful and besides capturing a likeness you manage to give a feeling of the person. Am looking at the portraits hanging behind you as well as the one you are working on. They all are people I would like to meet. Or maybe your upbeat and enthusiastic personality brings that out. Good either way. Have watched a couple of your landscape paintings, in which birds bring an area alive and give it mystique. Gulls, ravens and magpies are especially good at that. Speaking of Magpies, back in the late 1960's my 2 1/2 year old daughter ran in the house and said, "Mommy, there's a dead bagpipe in the road," Now THAT's a picture. It's tempting.

@lindak7499 5 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed video and Lyn's work. It would have been even better if the camera had been left up close so we could see the application of pastel and her blending, etc. Thanks

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Linda K thanks for your comment Linda. It’s a learning process for us in the filming realm and no doubt we will improve.

@triciareust8626 5 жыл бұрын

way to go Lyn - enjoyed this

@katywuste9054 5 жыл бұрын

This was incredible, loved the commentary and the finished portrait

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Katywu Ste thankyou Katywu.

@maldoori238 5 жыл бұрын

I loved your work Lynn. As always very informative and inspiring. I just wished it was in real time !

@rhondawillington9214 5 жыл бұрын

Maysoon AlDooriaines If you use an iPad you can adjust the speed by clicking on the 3 dots in the top right corner of the video, a box drops down and if you select ‘playback speed” you can slow it down to your liking. I should imagine there would also be a way of doing the same thing on other computer devices as well. 😃

@robinaanstey3734 5 жыл бұрын

Incredible likeness!! Brava Lyn

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Robina Anstey thanks Robina. I learnt my particular method of portrait drawing in the US when I spent a couple of weeks with Daniel Greene. What a privilege that was. It’s a method that is very understandable and achievable and is a guarantee for gaining a likeness everytime. With practise of course :).

@TheRockMorton 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your most excellent pastel portrait demo. Great values!

@OnlineCollegeofArtandDesign 5 жыл бұрын

very nice

@hannelorerack3785 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent job. Great talent.

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Hannelore Rack thankyou Hannelore.

@monolito8556 3 жыл бұрын

Dang , Id have liked to listen the whole speech haha. Awesome job master

@jimthompson2836 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this project. Watching in Canada.

@ColourinyourlifeAu 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Danielmieczyslaw Жыл бұрын

Just amazing and beautiful art love your work

@tyroneperry5008 Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Do you have any tips on how to accurately draw head shapes?

@pedrodavila8927 10 ай бұрын

Wowwww excelente trabajo maestra 🎉un saludo desde Honduras ❤❤❤

@lleehome 4 жыл бұрын

This was quite helpful. Loved it

@ColourinyourlifeAu 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@laurapiras 3 жыл бұрын

Love your lesson!!!!

@ColourinyourlifeAu 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@jekaterinanemeth3052 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Bravo! Merci! 💯💯💯👌🤗🌞🍀🤩🤩🤩💐💙💛

@tangents6299 5 жыл бұрын

Just beginning to watch but I cannot believe she's wearing such a pretty scarf with all that pastel, etc., around her. It'd be ALL OVER me, lol. She is awesome. Who are the 2 dorks who thumbed it down?!?

@ColourinyourlifeAu 5 жыл бұрын

theres always 5 or 6 dorks. At least they are consistant

@tangents6299 5 жыл бұрын

@@ColourinyourlifeAu great attitude!

@odebritto 4 жыл бұрын

i didn't dislike,but people is free to like or dislike, maybe for them isn't good enough. I'm just learning,but i can see the mouth and one eye don't match reference photo,maybe it's intended to be like that

@MASoaresFineArt Жыл бұрын

Muito bom vídeo, excelente arte artista!!!🖼️👩‍🎨👏👏👏👏

@suzannw9098 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@ColourinyourlifeAu 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@peachization 4 жыл бұрын

thought the guy at the back was real for a second!!

@racheldumm1443 3 жыл бұрын

hahahaa sameee

@lorikendrick5076 5 жыл бұрын

I could watch you all day! I would be interested in seeing a portrait with an undercoating and one without. To see the difference. Do you freehand your subject before you paint?

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Lori Kendrick thanks Lori. I always draw my portrait using sight only and employing the components of drawing - height/width relationships, changes of direction and distances relative to each other. I always find that the bright underpainting is like putting the blood flow beneath the flesh. Brights and darks are always controllable and so my inclination is to push them initially. However you can certainly do an effective portrait with out the bright underpainting.

@lorikendrick5076 5 жыл бұрын

@@lyndiefenbach7854 Thank you for sharing how you do this. Pastels scare me! 😁 But I am going to try.

@jeffreyschwarz3699 3 жыл бұрын

It would have helped greatly to let us know the colors being used.

@njmccormackgmail 5 жыл бұрын

Lyn, excellent work, so fresh! One question, do you use a fixative after you finish?

@ColourinyourlifeAu 5 жыл бұрын

I think she does james but best beat would be to ask her, Graeme

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Hi James, and thanks for your question. No, I don't use fixatives. It darkens the colours and reduces the vibrancy.

@JeanettsFarm 5 жыл бұрын

Great portrait! The background could use finishing. I noticed you don’t blend your pastels much. I use to do tons of horse, dog and people portraits on velour paper.

@8bitexplorer459 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could double like this XD

@kylewhite2985 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely work! Can i ask if she used Dry Pastels or Oil Pastels? I'm thinking about getting into it.

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Dry Pastels Kyle.

@kylewhite2985 5 жыл бұрын

@@lyndiefenbach7854 Thanks!

@1DaTJo 4 жыл бұрын

Which brand of pastels do you like best Lyn?

@jimbronaugh 5 жыл бұрын

I'm curious as to why Lyn doesn't put her website on her youtube channel page. You can click on her name and see what videos she has posted on youtube, but she didn't put any contact info and didn't put her website. Curiouser and curiouser.

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Jim Bronaugh thanks Jim. My husband has attended to it.

@jakubmalinowskiknowler4352 3 жыл бұрын

That's very correct one, no doubt. Knowing your limited time , you dedicate it on line, yet, for many amateurs , beginners, it seems to be to fast presentation. Your comments pay a bit too much of attention while concentrating of your performing moves of the hand... For a deeper study it does require watching your presentation even more then twice... And another point, painting from a photo, it's very convenient as the model is still. But taking into account fact, most common photographs depict images of faces at a blink of their expression. The viewer knows it is X and Y person. Even without thinking...about so many unnatural disfigurations recorded by merciless camera. Thus, portraits from cameras reign of their own rules. And there is a very specific, difficult skill to make a good one this way. In the fine art painting, we can depict person's face expression, of course, but it is very risky to follow exactly the photo image on a canvas or pastel paper. Such a portraiting does require some relevant selection of what is important and shows this person natural character, anatomy, from these that are unnatural. Make them very photographical, but ugly. And last point, very practical, majority of painters , amateurs are painting rather smaller formats of the pictures. And for that, "wide" and "easy move" became entry to a disaster. Using dry pastel is very difficult to carry on like with a pastel-pencil. For such painting one has already be a very skilled artist. Greeting to you! Dr Jakub S. Malinowski Knowler FAF

@ColourinyourlifeAu 3 жыл бұрын

wow, thank you so much Dr . Its wonderful when someone that has great knowledge takes the time to make such great comments. It really is appreciated , Graeme

@tipsytrips 4 жыл бұрын

What paper is that?

@ColourinyourlifeAu 4 жыл бұрын

best bet would be to talk to Lyn directly

@wildwolfportraits 3 жыл бұрын

What surface is this?

@ColourinyourlifeAu 3 жыл бұрын

I think Lyn uses Velour, Graeme

@wildwolfportraits 3 жыл бұрын

@@ColourinyourlifeAu thank you!

@chandrasekkhar4247 5 жыл бұрын

Very Nice, but Camera is not close to the drawing

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

chandra sekkhar thanks Chandra. This is a learning process for us and no doubt we will improve.

@arthurp5215 3 жыл бұрын

The camera is too far away from the board. Can't see aplication. You are beautiful but I would like to just see the art work.

@renzo6490 2 жыл бұрын

You do a lot of work without explaining what you're doing or why. Where did the drawing of the face come from? How was it created? Tutorial is an ambitious word to describe this video.

@carolineullrich7323 5 жыл бұрын

what's with the speed. sorry this one is more like self advertisement. got nothing from this besides her workshop. highly disappointed. others show more techniques. this speed through everything.

@karenstein1490 4 жыл бұрын

Your very good. But you vid is speeded up to the point no one can tell what your doing. I mean if your goal is to teach something, then slow down some.

@user-tk5oe5gj9e 9 ай бұрын

I would love to see what you are doing but you are going so fast I cannot see a thing

@sictransitgloriamundi7590 5 жыл бұрын

Buona tecnica e abbastanza somigliante ma preferisco lo stile alla tecnica e soprattutto manca l'anima,non c'è vita dietro quella superficie.

@matcomb7501 3 жыл бұрын

Better if we just saw her drawing and the photo, and not the other 80% around it,, that had nothing to do with the drawing & the photo.

@ColourinyourlifeAu 3 жыл бұрын

Christopher Hitchens, well missed by many, me included

@TheCosmicMedicineMan 5 жыл бұрын

Do the same portrait with only three pastel colors if you want to promote pastel art. Most people wont pay the high prices for the typical "every-color-of-the-rainbow" kit. Less is always more in my opinion.

@lyndiefenbach7854 5 жыл бұрын

Steven Nagy thanks for your comment Steven. Certainly the same portrait could be done in three values only or even with just using 2 plus the paper colour. As I did state at the end of the video - it is getting the values correct regardless of colour that is the most important. However, I do enjoy colour and am a colourist at heart and I am simply showing one process in a myriad of approaches to pastels.