Pastel portrait by Gerard Mineo

[JOSEANTONIOHERMES]

Excelent video .Thank you very much for sharing.Your work is great!

[fernandesfran]

Fabulous work as everyone said. I made a couple of observations:

1. I can see you resting your hand on the portrait while painting. Are you not afraid that it will smudge the colors?

2. In the Di Nero Portrait lesson on your site you began with the face and background. On this portrait there seems to be a slight variation. Do you change your methods often?

I'm just a beginner. Many Thanks.

[foreverhoads]

Hi!

Super work! can i ask what kind of pastel & paper he uses?! thanks!

[kirdanosaurus]

Hii, your work is really good. Do you use soft pastels or hard pastels? Is it better to draw portraits with soft pastels or Prismacolor Nupastels? I have a set of 24, but I have no idea on how to use them, and I need to make a portrait of someone.

[nande85]

Beautiful! i love the details. You draw like you put on a make up so that she looks perfect. hehehe.

[dragoneca2]

Hi, As a fellow artist, all I can say is; EXCELENT! I have seen the critique's of some about your work, but you have your own style (simular to mine) and it works very, very well for you. You deserve A LOT of credit. I love your work.

[mjffey]

I love your work, and I LOVE the backgrounds. I'm rubish with background so most of the time I leave them out. You use velour. Do you fix it afterwards? People say it makes the pastel look flatter, but I don't see that when I fix mine. I use mainly Ashby pastels on velour and if I don't fix it the top layer will come off.

[GerardMin]

@mjffey ... A portrait done with pastels has to be sprayed at the end. especially on velour paper. Some people use to use hairspray, this is something to avoid. You can just leave the last highlights unsprayed.

[slappindajayys]

how do you block in large areas of colour?

[GerardMin]

@slappindajayys

With large home made sticks. I give u a trick, take 2 or 3 Rembrandt or whatever brand of pastel u use and grind them in a caffee grinder then put the powder you got on a glass and rebuilt a new big stick by adding some water. beware not to add to much water. U can use this trick to mix together different colors or to make a new pastel with a lot of unusuable pieces of broken pastels. Let it dry on a heater or in a oven set very low.

[MsMarion61]

BEAUTIFULLLLL

AMAZING..

[10000372]

Your work is very original. But I would like to tell you to have better a approach and keep the background singletoned with pressure on i side ONLY.I can find your work to be better if you find a further realistic outcome.

Debayan Chatterjee

M.A. currently workind as a critic and visiting artist

Scottsdale school of art

[GerardMin]

@10000372 Thanks for your critic on my work. I understand you point of view about background in a classical way light/dark and a more realistic approach in my portraits. But this is not my goal. I prefer instead a modern and impressionistic way of painting portrait and i try as much as possible to keep away from a smooth aspect that one can find everywhere in many artists portraits. This is what makes my style original as you mentioned.

[TheDesdemonias]

hi,many compliments!

can you tell me what's the big color white that you use to do the light in the eyes?

thank you

sorry for my english XD

[GerardMin]

@TheDesdemonias

Fabercastel light grey



[Zoulvisia]

Wow! Shes looks like the mona lisa. Stunning! Thank you for sharing the great video :D

[smokekrypy4evr17]

BOY AM I MOTIVATED!! SO BEAUTIFUL

[DeniseInChains]

it is WONDERFUL... wow....

[yukirov]

when u 1st lay the hair color which is black, then lay the skin tone which is lighter than the hair color does it make the lighter color dirty? how do you lay light color over the dark color w/o messing it up? thanks in advance.

[catewithers]

Hi Gerard,

You did my portrait in Vilamoura last week - it's at the framers now, having managed to get it home to England safely on the plane! So pleased with it.

Have very much enjoyed looking through your website since I got home.

Could you tell me what the music is accompanying this video?

Cate x

[yabbaification]

Wow! Your work is amazing. I know you have a dvd out on how to paint an older person, but will you release one on painting younger people/children. Also, are you likely to do a dvd on painting black skin please?

[GuitarRHCPfan]

@yabbaification black skin is decievingly hard... you have to know the right tones to capture the right effect. Look for yellows, greens and purples in their faces to capture the right pigment. Its one of the harder to pastel, and black skin is extremely beautiful... I suggest starting on dark tan skin first, then get to the beauty of ethnic skin.

[junemaine1]

can you do me a favor?im sure you can paint my girl now here's the name Sharmaine Estocapio>>you can paint some of her pictures on her facebook account THANKS^^, you're so amazing

[sillapakam]

cool

[1mN0tY0urG1rl]

Crap, you're good! What do you use to make your own pastels??? you're incredible

[diholalola]

Gerard...Fantastic!!

[again1550]

Master Piece! Superb! Wish I could draw like this :)

[adjoshi5]

WOW !!!

[deeknits]

beautiful work!!!

[florachu2121]

coooooooooooooooooooooooL!!

[firataydineyup]

i am doig charcoal portraits and many people finds me pretty good... u can check out my profile there are some speed paintings of mine.. then i wanted to extend myself to such and bought those devices. but i could not painted any, i was totally out of art. WHAT IS THE SECRET???? i just spend my time with that kind of inspiring videos(#1!!)

EXCELLLLEEENNT!

[JadeInBlack777]

do your home made pastels work more like oil, soft, or chalk pastels?

[neumn13]

wow! this is fantastic! great job! :)

[dowling1981]

Why didn't you like it?

[neumn13]

what do you mean why didnt i like it? i said i loved it...

[dowling1981]

Oh right, it just seemed you didn't like it at first. How would you like it to improve?

[RUSPANTE74]

MOLTO BELLO

[KnockoffNigeI]

Crikey you're good, how long did it take you to learn to do that?

[bentleysportraits]

fantastic Gerard hey what size velour is that?

[GerardMin]

50x70 cms

[bentleysportraits]

fantastic as usual Gerard!

kevin

[iluvsinatra712]

GOD BLESS YOU for using your talent, and doing so well with it!!!!!

[andersonfinearts]

Your work is inspiring. Please tell me the type of paper you're working on and what are you blending your colors with? Thank you.

[GerardMin]

See comments above... I don't blend colors on Velour paper just superimpose them.

[musiclover041591]

amaaaazing

[bentleysportraits]

i think i'v e seen some of your other videos as well luv them i do pastel portraits as well

[zbkresby]

wooow

[starry1853]

Are you like the best pastel portraitist on YouTube or what?!

You are just unbelievably great!

I already subscribed to your videos, can't wait to see what you're up next!

p.s. is that like a white pastel marker?

[GerardMin]

I suppose you talk about the black "like pen" tool. This is just a pastel holder I use to better handle the thin sticks like these from Conté or Faber Castell when they are broken or just too tiny.

[coliecolie110]

What's that black cube thing? Is that a sponge or a big chunck of pastel?

[GerardMin]

This is a big home made pastel. I use mainly very big one to cover large areas and background in a portrait.

[laranjo123]

what kind of paper did u use there !

[GerardMin]

I use velour paper from hahnemuelhe, german paper.

[1CENTexchange]

sir, can you please tell me what kind of pastel you used. and did u use different kind of pastel.

please reply me back

[GerardMin]

I used mainly my home made pastels, some Rembrandt and Faber Castell for details.

[eyaeal2]

one of my favorite pastel portrait. this is well done.

[liyanakmal]

awesome...!this is nice....!