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Love your painting but I need to know the names of the colors used for skin tones.

Love your painting but I need to know the names of the colors used for skin tones.

I appreciate the detailed explanation presented in this video, but would never consider this technique because it's very complicated and obliterates what I like most about gouache - its' matte finish. I don't like that it darkens the painting, and as a cynic, I sincerely doubt that the painting will not yellow and crack over time. I don't see the logic in applying the varnish, then applying an isolation coat before applying another top coat while rationalizing that the isolation coat will allow curators to remove the damage done to the painting from the varnish, isolation coat and top coat. Personally, I'll stick with sealing my watercolor and gouache paintings with Dorland's Wax Medium. One coat and you're done. It doesn't shift the color, and paintings remain matte instead of being shifted to look like plastic as acrylic products do.

I’m Im thinking this method would also work to varnish watercolor paintings?

Maravilhoso ! Lindo !

Como é lindo o teu trabalho ! Tem alma ! 😉

Thanks for sharing, Lena. Your paintings always remind me of sorolla -such colourful shadows and glowing atosphere!

Thank you for this video, Lena!

Wonderful art work keep it up ❤

This very painting grabbed my heart and hugged it with a dose of sunshine, salt air, sounds of breezes and waves slapping the shore with these beautiful ladies who appear as if from another time in a dream….oh how it speaks to me❤❤❤

Lena, one thing I struggle with using gouache or oil paint is mixing every little color I see. Like I see you do in your paintings. Take for instance her leg... you have at least half a dozen colors used to make up that leg. I would tend to paint the leg one color and try to layer other colors on top of that. Besides practice and intent, how might someone get better results like yours? Same with oil paints... many artists mix up a bunch of colors before starting a portrait painting... I just haven't figured that out yet... Thanks for your wonderful videos...

so gorgeous

Amazing color temperature demo!!❤❤

Ahhh Lena, I should have known. Beautiful work ❤

Amazing !! So beautiful 😊❤

Beautiful ❤

Dang, they really have the mom and dad bod going there.

Good seeing ordinary people rather than that ideal-thing. Good rendering. Thanks.

i love watching you work thank you for sharing i would love to see your pallet for this one

Magic.

Ottimo lavoro ... molto interessante

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Beautiful painting

Magnifique

Bravissima ❤

Thank you so Very Much!!

You're an amazing colorist and a wonderful painter. I love your paint application, how you bring the light to life by dragging and scrubbing the paint around, leaving visible texture, and still in the end there's a lovely velvet finish...beautiful. Such a pleasure to watch! Thank you for sharing your gouache techniques

So beautiful ❤

I got that box at an artist estate sale , practically free. It’s heavy to carry along with my camera tripod. I had it for sale but maybe I’ll try using it again.

So beautifully done. I can actually feel the sun and wind when I look at this piece! ♥

Very very beautiful. Love your demonstration. Great music as well. Thank you so much.

Thanks for the description of process. I could tell it’s mixed media but wondered what else you used besides the oil pastels

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Such a beautiful painting❤ Do you paint with any digital tools too? I’d love to see it!

I love that pattern effect on the green skirt 👍❤️

What is the sort of pencil you're using to blend? LOVELY piece the light and atmosphere remind me of Sorolla

When you started to carve out the beach😍the warmth of this piece is so alluring. Brava!

Fantastic...reminds me Sorolla!!! ❤❤

I just downloaded your oil pastel guide~ Thank you so much for a video, too!

Amazing mastery of color & light!!

You always capture light and shadow so well 👏👏👏👏🥰

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how to keep your paints so wet and creamy ??

Thank you! That was very helpful!

Hi Lena, how did you get that bright beige colour for the first strokes for skin? Thank you!

Thanks for this tip. Sounds wonderful. Plus, i never thiught about using that medium for this purpose.

Hi Lena! I'm so glad I found your channel. It's not easy to find artworks in oil pastel that are as beautiful as yours - I love how your oil pastel artworks are both realistic to the subject but with some abstractions. The color harmonies are incredible. I am completely new to oil pastels and bought the expensive Caran d'Ache set for plein air sketching/painting as there are times when I simply don't want to work with a wet medium (which requires a pochade box). I was wondering if you have already tried to do oil patels in plein air? I had thought to remove all the wrapping from the pastels (as you suggest) and dump them in a fanny pack with some paper filler/tissue to protect them - and like that it should be possible to stand with a sketch pad and draw. I suppose the only way to know for sure is to try this myself -but I was hoping you'd have some thoughts around this, or if you have tried it yourself? Thanks for your brilliant guides and the wonderful story of the swan at the end.

I would have kept my skepticism in tact if it weren’t for the hair dryer test. 😅

Beautiful work, the acrylic paint you used gave a satin/matte result, very beautiful, the paint didn't have that plasticized and shiny effect, can you remember what brand of acrylic paint you used in this painting?

I love your work and it's amazing how you're as masterful at acrylics as you are w/ gouache and other mediums! Do you have any tips for how to get the color accurate with acrylics, which always dry darker?