Unusual soft pastel techniques by Tim Fisher

This video describes how to use Tim Fisher's pastel liquifier to create exciting colourful backgrounds. The result can be worked over or just framed as abstract art.

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• fisher
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• abstract
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• pastels

[georgiasurf07]

Doesn't turpentine do the same effect?

I'm pretty sure it does. .

[jacksonstops]

@georgiasurf07 possibly, though it's very smelly, especially if you want to speed up the process with a hair dryer...used to give me terrible headaches when oil painting until I discovered odourless thinners which do the same job

[cherrybombthreat]

I just bought some and it didn't work for me, is there a certain kind of paper you have to use or a particular brand of pastels? I use Strathmore Bristol 300 series Vellum. I used my new pan pastels which did not move at all and my Rembrandt soft pastels. The Rembrandt's worked a little, do you have to use a lot of layers of color?

[jacksonstops]

@cherrybombthreat The paper must have agood tooth so that you can get loads of pastel on the surface, Fisher400 art paper work well

[jacksonstops]

@cherrybombthreat It works better on rougher papers where you can deposit lots of pigment, I tend to just use the Bristol 300 for line and wash which you can see in my article in Feb 2011 Leisure Painter

[ramanglass544]

cant u get teh exact same effect using baby oil? ive done it a couple times and it gives a similar blending effect

[jacksonstops]

you get an effect as you can with water, but each technique gives a slightly different result

[NPACT1]

@georgiasurf07 did you notice he was on the bottle

[MsHannahsmakeup]

You just reuined it!

[7466309change]

So after you let it dry then put the poppies on there???Was that it?

[EmeraldxELLY]

So is this something to keep the soft pastels from smearing?

[evolutionofyin]

I am the only one who thought that was stupid >_> ...sorry but it was just silly. Maybe if done on certain areas but that was just sloppy and it looked like a piece of colorful poo. whatever.

[NahlaMohdFahmy]

sa-weet!