Painting a Woman in Water - Part 1 by Carmella Jarvi : Pastel Painting

[QAFgurl]

Wow. Very informative. This will help my art! :D

[CarmellaJarvi]

Happy New Year! (I want to remind you this 'short' is from my Instructional DVD "Painting Water with Pastels"... available through the Cheap Joe's website link above. It's 2 hours of lots of great info on pastel painting:-)

-Carmella Jarvi

[carolinethewierdo]

Your videos are so helpful. I love pastels. Thanks so much!

[CarmellaJarvi]

@carolinethewierdo Thanks! I love painting with pastels AND sharing with others.

[JuggieC]

Can you use acrylics nstead of pastel? Sorry Im a total noob when it comes to art.

[CarmellaJarvi]

@JuggieC Not sure what you mean... But, we can use whatever supplies we want to. We're artists!

[maggoli67]

I'm just intrigued by the umber (?) background. Is it more difficult to work colors over it than white?.

[christophermcraft]

Actually it's easier for me. You have your medium value already there so you don't have to apply pastel to every spot. You can add lights and darks (and some medium colors too) and the piece comes together quickly.

-Carmella Jarvi

[carolinethewierdo]

I never would have thought of using a complementary color. That's a nifty idea.

And by the way, I'm nearsighted too, so I'm definitely going to be using that idea as well. xD

[CarmellaJarvi]

@carolinethewierdo :-)

[CarmellaJarvi]

@maggoli67 I actually think it's easier to work over a medium value color as opposed to white. It becomes your mid tone... and you don't have to 'fill in' every white spot!