Pastel portrait by Gerard Mineo

Demonstration of a studio session where the artist realizes a portrait from a photo. The real duration of the session is 45 mns.

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[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.

[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

[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.

[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.