 Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins. I'm giving you a sneak peek at a Patreon video from my Patreon page and it is a bit abstract. I'm calling this one Night Wishes. I just love this photo of some dandelions. I chose to make it a night scene and it is created on a piece of color-fix sanded paper. I used primarily the Sennelier Paris collection soft pastels and the thunderstorm gray set made by Mount Vision. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this little sneak peek at a Patreon exclusive video that I'm offering as a speed version here on Monet Café. And if you would like the full version, including commentary and more, consider becoming a patron of mine on my Patreon page. It's only five dollars a month. You get lots of extra content. I get to see your work. We have special groups where my patrons share and it's just a great family. All right, enjoy this to music and I'm gonna be back at the end to share a neat little trick for adding sparkles, stars, and pizzazz to paintings that are made in soft pastel. Until then, enjoy this lovely song created by musician Hannah McFarland. This is called Beautiful Jesus. I really liked the painting at this stage. Again, a little bit abstract, very loose, and I decided though I wanted to give it a little more pizzazz. So I thought I'd try this technique I like to use where I actually add pastel particles to the surface of the pastel paper. I use a cheese grater and I do wash my cheese grater really great before using it again. But I just scrape off little bits of soft pastel. Again, I was going for a super vibrant, colorful, fun style with this one. And so I used some really bright colors. These are all from the Paris Collection Sennelier pastel set. I love this set. It's a great set. If you're starting to get a little serious about soft pastels, it's one of the best buys for a quality set of pastels. For around, I've seen it on Amazon for as low as $113 for 120 half sticks. That's a great, great buy. I think it's up to like 140 now, but it's still a really, really great set. And here is what I'm doing. How is this going to stick on the pastel paper? Well, what I do is I take a piece of tracing paper and I tape it down so it doesn't move. Now I'm not using this can of spray fixative for its usual purpose. I am using it to roll. I'm pressing really hard. And what happens is it sets those little particles into the sanded surface. So they really do adhere. They stay on pretty good. So this was really magical. That's the feeling I was going for. I hope you enjoyed it. If you would like the full version of this tutorial, I'll have a link in the description of this video that'll take you to my Patreon page. Again, it's only $5 a month. You get lots of extra content, lots of real time content, commentary and more. But guess what? I have hundreds of free videos right here on Monet Cafe. So there are options for everyone. All right. As always, God bless and happy painting.