Preview | Essential Techniques for Pastel Portraits with Alain Picard

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In this ArtistsNetwork.tv video workshop, Alain Picard gives you the essential tools and techniques you need to paint a beautiful portrait with pastels. With lighting tips to define drama and mood, drawing tips and tools that help you assess relationships of proportion and scale, design and edge tools that lead the eye through the painting and refining tools for subtleties that bring your work to life, Alain shows you how to paint portraits and fills your visual toolbox to equip you for success.
Preview Essential Techniques for Pastel Portraits now to learn drawing tips for creating thumbnails and using angles for accuracy, how take advantage of value and edges to lead the eye through your composition, and pastel techniques that refine your portrait and make it come to life. Then, watch the video at ArtistsNetwork.TV or purchase the video at Northlightshop.com.
A frequent workshop instructor and demonstrator for art associations, schools, galleries and museums, Alain's work has been featured in such publications as The Artist's Magazine and The Pastel Journal, and he has garnered top awards from the Portrait Society of America, the Hudson Valley Art Association, and the Pastel Society of America. Alain is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America as well as the Connecticut Pastel Society where he serves as President.

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@denisegrossman3840 4 жыл бұрын

Everytime I watched this video, I learn something new! Now I always use vine charcoal for sketching prior to applying pastels. Thank you for the inspiration and your generosity!

@belindastrayhorn1843 9 жыл бұрын

I would love to have Alain Picard as a model!

@alexdelker 10 жыл бұрын

I would also like to really thank you for all that you put into this. You explain portraiture in a way that makes absolute sense and your demonstration was perfectly explained.

@justinrobinson9583 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent Teacher for instructional videos. I assume you've been doing this for years to be this good. Each step was specific and moved forward w. ease.

@yaelmaimonartist 8 жыл бұрын

Stunning! I love his portraits!

@mothersdream 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to put this together! It gave me some things to think about. Hard edges, versus soft, the way you shaped the figure in. I've learned some tips I hope to be able to integrate in my paintings, whether pastels or acrylics.

@LouiseDAlise 11 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching you work and your style of teaching is clear and concise. Thank you for sharing your work.

@AlainDePaula 3 жыл бұрын

I am another Alain (but from Brazil) and I must say that video class was simply perfect! Thanks a lot!

@abdullahnasher7975 5 жыл бұрын

Alain is great artist.

@Anthony-gq7dk 3 жыл бұрын

outstanding teacher with perfect pace and instruction .

@artistsnetwork 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@lismeseeks8971 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This was very helpful, I sometimes struggle with values. Going to have to buy one of those scales

@zanoubyamalika3567 6 жыл бұрын

very helpful thenks

@this6969 2 жыл бұрын

Great Alain Picard

@talamoyal5297 10 жыл бұрын

you are so good' i think the best i've ever seen, your technique is amazing!

@abdullahnasher7975 5 жыл бұрын

Great artist

@theinvestigatorx 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great demo. Please let me know about pastel paper you used. Thanks.

@paulobazzo3509 8 жыл бұрын

Amzazingg!

@beanstaIkjack 7 жыл бұрын

Wow he's a handsome chap

@isaaccherry2671 2 жыл бұрын

Alan was so young!

@govindhs8348 5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@abdullahnasher7975 5 жыл бұрын

I grap a screen shot of the artist and it will be my reference for a painting of an artist.

@elianar.goncalvesdealmeida4123 6 жыл бұрын

when the picture is finished what you use of fixative before by the frame or it runs out of the fixative varnish?

@harrygraham923 6 жыл бұрын

Some pastelists use fixative and some do not as they think it dulls the painting. There are tutorials on KZfaq on fixative use.

@elyselauthier 2 жыл бұрын

what paper are you using?

@casperado666 9 жыл бұрын

Awesome. What kind of paper are you using? 'Cause i bought some hard pastels and they seen to tear the "normal" paper. Or they at least leave visible scratches and damage the surface of the paper.

@artistsnetwork 9 жыл бұрын

casperado666 Alain uses sanded pastel card (warm brown).

@casperado666 9 жыл бұрын

ArtistsNetwork Thank you!!

@raisaabby1363 4 жыл бұрын

My goodness 😍so handsome😄

@lsmak1085 10 жыл бұрын

If someone knows, please tell me what type or brand of pastel sticks he was using.

@cg8397 Жыл бұрын

He uses mostly Nupastel for his portraits

@Sbebuli 9 жыл бұрын

Hi! Please suggest the best easily available paper for soft pastel paintings... :)

@artistsnetwork 9 жыл бұрын

Sarojini Dabral Hi there, Alain uses sanded pastel card (warm brown) for this technique. Enjoy!

@Misana 8 жыл бұрын

Well, ain't he distracting...

@scrappysinger 6 жыл бұрын

What a voice.i didn’t hear a word he said for 2 solid minutes!😂

@midnightdreams8136 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but not in a good way

@kilaasimller2422 3 жыл бұрын

do you take costumers?

@MyGabrielperez 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, what kind of paper it is? someone can tell me, please!

@SpudGun146 7 жыл бұрын

gabriel pérez sanded pastel card

@21toadian 6 жыл бұрын

Sennilier pastel card. Good stuff

@CristianMartinez-lj4jt 6 жыл бұрын

Kind of aper is that?

@wellend 5 жыл бұрын

what is value? sorry im new

@mariavarga863 5 жыл бұрын

wellend it’s the strength of light in color, white is the lightest value and black is the darkest!

@wellend 5 жыл бұрын

@@mariavarga863 thank you so much.

@monicavinas2980 2 жыл бұрын

It's not worth paying for the entire video. you can't go forward or back to see it again from a certain point and it hangs all the time. I haven't been able to see it in its entirety. You should be able to download it to your computer in order to view it correctly. as it is not cheap.

@alocin110 2 жыл бұрын

it was good for 1 min then i started getting bored with unnecessary details. you did only 30% of the portrait 70% talking. good.. but like your starting was meaning info, all of a sudden your portrait jumped from 30% to 100% messy photoshop conversion. why charcolist dont know how to finish hair? it always looks messy and crapy. can you explain? yours is like that too. i disliked your video that does not mean i dislike your mastery; you are a highly talented artist. but you are not good at putting it rightly on soc. media.

@cg8397 Жыл бұрын

It's due to the thickness of the stick, you've to switch to pastel pencils for fine details