Thanks for sharing! As a few people have already stated, the paper is key with soft pastel. I prefer sanded paper so the tooth catches the pigment and paint in the upright position. I put either tape or paper towel at the bottom that catches the dust. Also, with certain sanded papers you can use watercolor to lay down color and then paint over with the pastel. Karen Margulis and Susan Jenkins are excellent pastel painters that share their work on CZcams as well. You are amazing and an excellent teacher! Miles and his big brother are adorable❤️
I actually really like your gouache painting best. Altho after you went back into the watercolor again it was a hard choice. Love the vibrancy of the other 2 but I could be biased as I know nothing of either medium. Great video. I always learn a lot from you. I love your courage to tackle new things. Your son is so sweet! 💕
I've been searching CZcams for days for a simple video like this. I wanted to see what the same picture looks like in different mediums, but apparently not many people have done this! I would like to see more though... a more detailed picture and more mediums such as graphite, charcoal, pencil, chalk, pastel, oil pastel, watercolour, ink, acrylic, oil, markers.
Soft pastels really need pastelmat or something like Uart sanded paper. If you don’t want to go to that expense you can practice on standard sandpaper that you get at the hardware store but keep in mind it’s not archival. The higher the grit the finer the sand, about 600/800 grit would be good to start off.
These look great! I love experimenting with new mediums, I think I'll try this exercise. The Paul Rubens pastel colored oil pastels are really nice, they'd probably work great for this type of colorful sky. Canson has sand grain type paper that would work well with both types of pastels. 🙂
Pan pastel sponge tools would be good for blending the soft pastels. You might want to try pan pastel sometime. You can actually apply it with a paint brush.
I like the watercolor the best. The transparency is gorgeous. I also like the tonal values on the watercolor. The tonal values on the other three were more similar. They were all great and thank you for showing us this. That was a lot of work. Your baby is so cute.
I was just looking for oil pastel tutorial this morning but was not happy. You showed me and explained it better. However, I prefer water colour. I just wanted to try oil pastel because I have a set. I like your 3rd one best. Thank you.
I found gouache was easier to use when I put some in a palette and let it cure, then I just treated it like watercolour, adding more paint to make it more opaque, adding more water when I want it more fluid. A little goes a very long way with gouache and I find the milk consistency to be the sweet spot between opacity and fluidity. The himi jelly gouache reactivates very easily once cured on a palette so there's been no issues. Plus it's more convenient than that giant box himi put the cups in.
Chalk pastels. You need more tooth on the paper to hold it more. You can even use sanded paper. (Watch your finger if you do that) How much you can layer is directly related to how much your paper can hold, kind of like colored pencils. You should start with way way less than you think. You are used to removing but you can not except with an eraser but that reduces what the paper can hold. With pastels you have to work it up more like colored pencil. Try no pressure on two colors next to each other and blend them and work up pressure from there to get a feel for how much you need. :) hope this helps.
Very fun! You might enjoy Susan Jenkins' channel "Monett Café ..." she uses watercolor and soft pastels together sometimes. Also has good ideas to make pastel paper using watercolor paper. Which is a lot cheaper.
Soft pastels on a cold pressed, or “unsanded “ paper will be intensely dusty. If you want to give them a fair shake, get yourself some sanded paper to try. I never aim for a soft blend with them- moreso gestural marks. And I allow the colors to blend each other rather than primarily using my fingers. That said- I’m a weirdo and love the tactileness of them and having messy fingers after! I feel like a “real artist” then 😆
Really fun video, thank you. Loved seeing Myles in the intro. Reminded me of when you used to do that with Noah as a baby. Time has flown by 🤦♀️. All the paintings are lovely by the way 😊
Hi Emma, your new baby is such a cutie! Thank you for sharing him with us! If you are interested in exploring dry pastels try using sanded paper which will "grab" the medium and make it easier for you to blend. They can be very beautiful once you get the hang of them. Kind regards...
Great stuff. With soft pastels you definitely have to tap off the dust into a bin as you go. I recently started pastel drawing again after 30 years. Back then I was a teen and the dust didn’t bother me as much then as it does now. Probably because cleaning was less of an annoyance because I did less of it! 😆 I think I will do more of it when I have a better workspace when my eldest daughter moves out. At the moment I have to do it amongst my office equipment which isn’t ideal. The cleanup for watercolour is definitely easier!
I love soft pastels! I had tried oil pastels but felt like I had better results with crayons. As I delved deeper into soft pastels, I found that the key was the paper. Overall a very interesting experience
Only as an observer, it looked like you put too much soft pastel on the paper to start. You coated the surface instead of applying lightly so the medium could be spread across and into the paper.. Then you can build up more layers for richer color. Kind of like applying blush makeup.
They're pretty cool Emma! I love them👍 Btw, have you tried the Waterbased Paul Rubens "Oil Pastel", Caran D'ache Crayons, and Derwent Pastels that are Water soluble. They work like Crayons with the option of using and blending with Water. For regular Oil Pastel, you can use Baby Oil, Vaseline, &/or Alcohol in lieu of Pastel Mineral spirit blending liquid. For regular Pastel, I'm with you, it's hard for me to work on that without being too messy. I prefer using the Water soluble Pastels like above I mentioned. But hey, all your paintings and/or drawings with Pastels are amazing. I love em. ❤️ And can I say that your Baby is so ooober adorable 😍. How's the Big Brother with this Lil Guy? Just too Cute both your Boys ❤️
I think the Gouache picture turned out the best! Then the Oil Pastels, Soft Pastels and the Watercolor. The watercolor picture is beautiful on its own, but it was pale in comparison to the vibrancy of the other pictures you did.
Emma, paper makes a huge difference with pastels too. Claire Fontaine paper makes such a difference for layering. Try pan pastels next time. They don’t make such a mess! You did great!
Nice comparison! They’re all effective in their own way. For soft pastels, it’s best to use a sanded paper because they grab the pigment better, and if you tickle lightly, you can actually blend with a lot of layers until the “tooth” is filled. Also if you work upright on some kind of easel, the dust just falls onto the ledge and you can wipe it up after. But yes, they’re dusty to be sure.
Thanks for such a fun video. Miles is so cute and such a treat to see him 🤗 Funnily enough I still want to ooh and Ah over the watercolor version. The translucent quality of the painting is so lovely. Thanks again.
I really like the subtle look of your watercolor sky. Sometimes the sky is not so intense. I'm struggling with gouche, its very different from watercòlor, not sure about it.
Brilliant experiments - thank you so much! I would love to be good with oil pastels, but find them tricky to blend and define. I cannot cope with all the dust of soft pastels, but they can be useful over Watercolour to add texture 😉
Hi Emma, thank you for bringing Myles into the studio, you both look so happy and healthy 💕 With the oil pastels try baby oil (not archival just to play) or linseed oil to help blend. For the soft pastels - I don't experience much if any dust fall with Unison Colour soft pastels on pastelmat or velour. Enjoy your experimenting it looks like you're having fun.
That Paul Ruben watercolour palette is the one I learned to paint with, it's an amazing beginner palette. I'm upgrading to a Daniel Smith watercolour palette to get better at colour mixing, but I'm keeping my Paul Ruben watercolours when I want convenience colours. My only complaint is the hooker green, as it's really hard to activate
This video is so cute! Not just because of your son. But, how your commentary was entertaining. I like your videos and have learned so much from watching you.
Hi, Miles is a real cute little guy. 👶 I have tried, the oil.pastels, then did a multie media painting using chalk pastels. The soft pastels were fun but messy. I'm learning gouache, it's not quite watercolour and is definitely not acrylic....as I said I'm learning, but my favourite is watercolour, adding gouache here and there sometimes One has to do a lot of practicing. This was an interesting tutorial Emma. 😊
Hey Emma your litte guy is so adorabble. i love using oil pastels too but hate the mess i haave a set of mungyo watersoluble oil pastels which are so much fun to work with and not as messy. you should try them out I think you'll really enjoy them
I really enjoyed this video, first of all let me just say he is adorable. I agree that pastels are so messy, I used to try working with them but could not stand the mess, I used to put just a small amount of color down and then blend them using a tissue most of the time because I didn't want it all over my fingers. Then you have to be careful because it will rub off onto anything so you have to put something over it. I haven't tried the gouache yet, I like using the watercolors. You did a good job and all of them looked good. Thank you for doing this comparison.
@@darcygraceswatercolorstudi4220 Thank you. Yes, that is a picture of my house rabbit, I also have 2 guinea pigs. The bunny just turned 10 years old on the 20th of this month.
I like the gouache the most. I'm eagerly awaiting some holbein gouache but of COURSE with my luck the delivery has been delayed lol was supposed to get it a week ago and now it says never monday. Worst part is the package is JUST at the stop before mine. Pray for me.
Hi Emma, I have used the soft pastels once in a colouring book, as a background colour in green. I thing for large backgrounds, they would be great - and that is my only experience.! Miles looks great - healthy and so cute.
Fun to watch! I much prefer watercolor because you just can’t get the magic you get with watercolor with the other mediums. That’s what I love so much about watercolor! You could get more vibrant results with glazing. I actually like the watercolor sky the best. The others are too vibrant and not realistic. This was a very simple painting. I think if you did anything more detailed and difficult, the other mediums would be a nightmare.
Oh my god Emma these all turned out to be fabulous. U told that u are not good at gouache . U ARE WRONG. I am a fan of the sky u made with gouache . Don’t be hard on yourself u are n amazing artist
Great demo. I have the pastels but have never used them because I didn’t know how. This has helped me want to try them out. The water color is my favorite.
Hi Emma, the baby is getting so big, adorable! Great tutorial!! Can’t wait to try different mediums. Have you ever tried Caran D’Ache Neocolors along with your watercolors? If so, I would love to see how you recommend using them. Have a great day!
Emma, Myles is so adorable! Enjoyed watching this video. I do love watercolor and would love to do a little gouache but I don’t know much about working with it. I took a pastel course but it was so messy and difficult I decided it’s not for me. I would rather stick with watercolor and real oils. Thanks! Joanne
Miles is such a cutie and it was lovely to see him. I liked the water colour and gouache best but thought you did really well with the different pastels. I think the surface used for pastels is very important and each one requires a different surface. Sanded paper, soft tools and a ‘less is more’ technique works better for soft pastels. I am not very good with them, either, as I tend to start off with too much and make a mess as well so have concentrated more on pastel pencils as I get lots more control with them. Fixative is also important if you want to keep the artwork, otherwise it fades and you end up with pastel all over your other artwork, I speak from experience…😂🤣
Great stuff. With soft pastels you definitely have to tap off the dust into a bin as you go. I recently started pastel drawing again after 30 years. Back then I was a teen and the dust didn’t bother me as much then as it does now. Probably because cleaning was less of an annoyance because I did less of it! 😆 I think I will do more of it when I have a better workspace when my eldest daughter moves out. At the moment I have to do it amongst my office equipment which isn’t ideal. The cleanup for watercolour is definitely easier!
Thanks for sharing! As a few people have already stated, the paper is key with soft pastel. I prefer sanded paper so the tooth catches the pigment and paint in the upright position. I put either tape or paper towel at the bottom that catches the dust. Also, with certain sanded papers you can use watercolor to lay down color and then paint over with the pastel. Karen Margulis and Susan Jenkins are excellent pastel painters that share their work on CZcams as well. You are amazing and an excellent teacher! Miles and his big brother are adorable❤️
This was a super fun idea! I loved seeing the four together, I really liked them all. The sky on the oil pastel is amazing!
Your baby is adorable! I find make up sponges or soft tools helpful for blending soft pastels.
I actually really like your gouache painting best. Altho after you went back into the watercolor again it was a hard choice. Love the vibrancy of the other 2 but I could be biased as I know nothing of either medium. Great video. I always learn a lot from you. I love your courage to tackle new things. Your son is so sweet! 💕
I've been searching CZcams for days for a simple video like this. I wanted to see what the same picture looks like in different mediums, but apparently not many people have done this! I would like to see more though... a more detailed picture and more mediums such as graphite, charcoal, pencil, chalk, pastel, oil pastel, watercolour, ink, acrylic, oil, markers.
Soft pastels really need pastelmat or something like Uart sanded paper. If you don’t want to go to that expense you can practice on standard sandpaper that you get at the hardware store but keep in mind it’s not archival. The higher the grit the finer the sand, about 600/800 grit would be good to start off.
Awe.. sweet little Miles. Ty for sharing him with us.
These look great! I love experimenting with new mediums, I think I'll try this exercise. The Paul Rubens pastel colored oil pastels are really nice, they'd probably work great for this type of colorful sky. Canson has sand grain type paper that would work well with both types of pastels. 🙂
Pan pastel sponge tools would be good for blending the soft pastels. You might want to try pan pastel sometime. You can actually apply it with a paint brush.
I like the watercolor the best. The transparency is gorgeous. I also like the tonal values on the watercolor. The tonal values on the other three were more similar. They were all great and thank you for showing us this. That was a lot of work. Your baby is so cute.
This was really fun to watch!
I was just looking for oil pastel tutorial this morning but was not happy. You showed me and explained it better.
However, I prefer water colour. I just wanted to try oil pastel because I have a set. I like your 3rd one best. Thank you.
Looks great. I like sennelier oil pastels water soluble.
I found gouache was easier to use when I put some in a palette and let it cure, then I just treated it like watercolour, adding more paint to make it more opaque, adding more water when I want it more fluid. A little goes a very long way with gouache and I find the milk consistency to be the sweet spot between opacity and fluidity. The himi jelly gouache reactivates very easily once cured on a palette so there's been no issues. Plus it's more convenient than that giant box himi put the cups in.
Chalk pastels. You need more tooth on the paper to hold it more. You can even use sanded paper. (Watch your finger if you do that) How much you can layer is directly related to how much your paper can hold, kind of like colored pencils. You should start with way way less than you think. You are used to removing but you can not except with an eraser but that reduces what the paper can hold. With pastels you have to work it up more like colored pencil. Try no pressure on two colors next to each other and blend them and work up pressure from there to get a feel for how much you need. :) hope this helps.
Beautiful baby. God bless him.
Wonderful video. Each medium has a charm of it's own. Thank you for sharing.
Very fun! You might enjoy Susan Jenkins' channel "Monett Café ..." she uses watercolor and soft pastels together sometimes. Also has good ideas to make pastel paper using watercolor paper. Which is a lot cheaper.
Sweet Miles. Thank you
Soft pastels on a cold pressed, or “unsanded “ paper will be intensely dusty. If you want to give them a fair shake, get yourself some sanded paper to try. I never aim for a soft blend with them- moreso gestural marks. And I allow the colors to blend each other rather than primarily using my fingers. That said- I’m a weirdo and love the tactileness of them and having messy fingers after! I feel like a “real artist” then 😆
Really fun video, thank you. Loved seeing Myles in the intro. Reminded me of when you used to do that with Noah as a baby. Time has flown by 🤦♀️. All the paintings are lovely by the way 😊
Myles is so adorable !!
Hi Emma, your new baby is such a cutie! Thank you for sharing him with us! If you are interested in exploring dry pastels try using sanded paper which will "grab" the medium and make it easier for you to blend. They can be very beautiful once you get the hang of them. Kind regards...
Great stuff. With soft pastels you definitely have to tap off the dust into a bin as you go. I recently started pastel drawing again after 30 years. Back then I was a teen and the dust didn’t bother me as much then as it does now. Probably because cleaning was less of an annoyance because I did less of it! 😆 I think I will do more of it when I have a better workspace when my eldest daughter moves out. At the moment I have to do it amongst my office equipment which isn’t ideal. The cleanup for watercolour is definitely easier!
I love soft pastels! I had tried oil pastels but felt like I had better results with crayons. As I delved deeper into soft pastels, I found that the key was the paper. Overall a very interesting experience
Only as an observer, it looked like you put too much soft pastel on the paper to start. You coated the surface instead of applying lightly so the medium could be spread across and into the paper.. Then you can build up more layers for richer color. Kind of like applying blush makeup.
Thank you! I have no idea how to use them lol
They're pretty cool Emma! I love them👍 Btw, have you tried the Waterbased Paul Rubens "Oil Pastel", Caran D'ache Crayons, and Derwent Pastels that are Water soluble. They work like Crayons with the option of using and blending with Water.
For regular Oil Pastel, you can use Baby Oil, Vaseline, &/or Alcohol in lieu of Pastel Mineral spirit blending liquid. For regular Pastel, I'm with you, it's hard for me to work on that without being too messy. I prefer using the Water soluble Pastels like above I mentioned.
But hey, all your paintings and/or drawings with Pastels are amazing. I love em. ❤️
And can I say that your Baby is so ooober adorable 😍. How's the Big Brother with this Lil Guy? Just too Cute both your Boys ❤️
I think the Gouache picture turned out the best! Then the Oil Pastels, Soft Pastels and the Watercolor. The watercolor picture is beautiful on its own, but it was pale in comparison to the vibrancy of the other pictures you did.
Such a sweet baby!
I enjoyed watching this. It's always good to stretch ourselves with something new. Nice job, Emma!
They're all beautiful. What a treat seeing your baby. He's adorable
Emma, paper makes a huge difference with pastels too. Claire Fontaine paper makes such a difference for layering. Try pan pastels next time. They don’t make such a mess! You did great!
Nice comparison! They’re all effective in their own way. For soft pastels, it’s best to use a sanded paper because they grab the pigment better, and if you tickle lightly, you can actually blend with a lot of layers until the “tooth” is filled. Also if you work upright on some kind of easel, the dust just falls onto the ledge and you can wipe it up after. But yes, they’re dusty to be sure.
Great video!! Fun and informative!! Thank you so much ❤️
Thanks for such a fun video. Miles is so cute and such a treat to see him 🤗
Funnily enough I still want to ooh and Ah over the watercolor version. The translucent quality of the painting is so lovely. Thanks again.
I like the watercolor best, but the foreground of the gouache would make the watercolor look better. The blacker black just looks better.
Love your work and your honesty. Thanks for all the work that goes into to creating tutorials in the midst of raising young (and adorable) children.
I really like the subtle look of your watercolor sky. Sometimes the sky is not so intense. I'm struggling with gouche, its very different from watercòlor, not sure about it.
I really enjoyed this video, and seeing cutie baby Myles!
Brilliant experiments - thank you so much! I would love to be good with oil pastels, but find them tricky to blend and define. I cannot cope with all the dust of soft pastels, but they can be useful over Watercolour to add texture 😉
Hi Emma, thank you for bringing Myles into the studio, you both look so happy and healthy 💕
With the oil pastels try baby oil (not archival just to play) or linseed oil to help blend.
For the soft pastels - I don't experience much if any dust fall with Unison Colour soft pastels on pastelmat or velour. Enjoy your experimenting it looks like you're having fun.
Congratulations beautiful baby’s boy..
That Paul Ruben watercolour palette is the one I learned to paint with, it's an amazing beginner palette. I'm upgrading to a Daniel Smith watercolour palette to get better at colour mixing, but I'm keeping my Paul Ruben watercolours when I want convenience colours. My only complaint is the hooker green, as it's really hard to activate
They all look great!
This video is so cute! Not just because of your son. But, how your commentary was entertaining. I like your videos and have learned so much from watching you.
Hi,
Miles is a real cute little guy. 👶
I have tried, the oil.pastels, then did a multie media painting using chalk pastels. The soft pastels were fun but messy.
I'm learning gouache, it's not quite watercolour and is definitely not acrylic....as I said I'm learning, but my favourite is watercolour, adding gouache here and there sometimes
One has to do a lot of practicing.
This was an interesting tutorial Emma. 😊
I like the guache one the best
Love this comparison - Good on you
Cute baby!! My favorite is the one in gouache. I’m also trying to get the hang of gouache. Definitely a learning curve.
Your son is so cute! I loved all of them but the last one most of all.
I have oil pastels but haven't used them yet since they seem messy and tricky to do details with. I'll have to practice.
Hey Emma your litte guy is so adorabble. i love using oil pastels too but hate the mess i haave a set of mungyo watersoluble oil pastels which are so much fun to work with and not as messy. you should try them out I think you'll really enjoy them
I did a piece in high school with soft pastels on velour paper. It was fun but definitely messy. Not something I want to deal with in my home. lol
This was very interesting!!!
I really enjoyed this video, first of all let me just say he is adorable. I agree that pastels are so messy, I used to try working with them but could not stand the mess, I used to put just a small amount of color down and then blend them using a tissue most of the time because I didn't want it all over my fingers. Then you have to be careful because it will rub off onto anything so you have to put something over it. I haven't tried the gouache yet, I like using the watercolors. You did a good job and all of them looked good. Thank you for doing this comparison.
Hey, Cindy! This is kinda random but I love your profile pic, such a adorable bunny! Do u own rabbits?
@@darcygraceswatercolorstudi4220 Thank you. Yes, that is a picture of my house rabbit, I also have 2 guinea pigs. The bunny just turned 10 years old on the 20th of this month.
@@cindyp.9030 Thanks for your reply! What breed is your rabbit? I also have rabbits!
@@darcygraceswatercolorstudi4220 she is a Dutch and weighs 5 lbs. What kind do you have?
@@cindyp.9030 Aww, so cute! I also have a Dutch rabbit. Her name is Belle and she weighs 4 pounds.
I like the gouache the most. I'm eagerly awaiting some holbein gouache but of COURSE with my luck the delivery has been delayed lol was supposed to get it a week ago and now it says never monday. Worst part is the package is JUST at the stop before mine. Pray for me.
Hi Emma, I have used the soft pastels once in a colouring book, as a background colour in green. I thing for large backgrounds, they would be great - and that is my only experience.! Miles looks great - healthy and so cute.
Water color is the best
Fun to watch! I much prefer watercolor because you just can’t get the magic you get with watercolor with the other mediums. That’s what I love so much about watercolor! You could get more vibrant results with glazing. I actually like the watercolor sky the best. The others are too vibrant and not realistic. This was a very simple painting. I think if you did anything more detailed and difficult, the other mediums would be a nightmare.
I agree, I tried to do a flower with both pastels and I wanted to scream! It was so hard and didn’t work out
Oh my god Emma these all turned out to be fabulous. U told that u are not good at gouache . U ARE WRONG. I am a fan of the sky u made with gouache . Don’t be hard on yourself u are n amazing artist
Great demo. I have the pastels but have never used them because I didn’t know how. This has helped me want to try them out. The water color is my favorite.
Really enjoyed watching video 📹.
I like the soft pastels one the best , I’ve worked with this medium before and I agree with you it is very messy , love little Myles ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks I definitely learnt I do not want to touch chalk 😂
What a fun experiment! Loved it!
It's my beginning of learning,pls give me any tip on how to control water in brush .
Hi Emma, the baby is getting so big, adorable! Great tutorial!! Can’t wait to try different mediums. Have you ever tried Caran D’Ache Neocolors along with your watercolors? If so, I would love to see how you recommend using them. Have a great day!
Emma, Myles is so adorable! Enjoyed watching this video. I do love watercolor and would love to do a little gouache but I don’t know much about working with it. I took a pastel course but it was so messy and difficult I decided it’s not for me. I would rather stick with watercolor and real oils. Thanks! Joanne
Miles is such a cutie and it was lovely to see him. I liked the water colour and gouache best but thought you did really well with the different pastels. I think the surface used for pastels is very important and each one requires a different surface. Sanded paper, soft tools and a ‘less is more’ technique works better for soft pastels. I am not very good with them, either, as I tend to start off with too much and make a mess as well so have concentrated more on pastel pencils as I get lots more control with them. Fixative is also important if you want to keep the artwork, otherwise it fades and you end up with pastel all over your other artwork, I speak from experience…😂🤣
Great stuff. With soft pastels you definitely have to tap off the dust into a bin as you go. I recently started pastel drawing again after 30 years. Back then I was a teen and the dust didn’t bother me as much then as it does now. Probably because cleaning was less of an annoyance because I did less of it! 😆 I think I will do more of it when I have a better workspace when my eldest daughter moves out. At the moment I have to do it amongst my office equipment which isn’t ideal. The cleanup for watercolour is definitely easier!