 Hey guys, I got some great news for you here today in Monet Cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and check this out I have often tried to find a way to apply soft pastel to canvas and while this particular product is not Canvas, it's actually a wood panel But it's a primed canvas texture and I had kind of a happy accident of being able to find a way to Apply soft pastels to this product to be able to hang a pastel painting on a wall rather than frame it But first, let me show you quickly the little painting that I created using the artist panel along with a Watercolor underpainting. I'm going to be sharing with you a product that I use for the watercolor underpainting While I share a lot of information in this video. It has a little bit of limited content I have now decided to have special extended content available for my patrons on my patreon page But there's a lot of great content here. So keep watching Now very quickly. Let me do a little product review from this company Arteza that keeps sending me free products Which is awesome. This is their watercolor paper and I'll be sharing with you this little 36 piece set I've already gone ahead and use this micron marker It's a great little marker for watercolor because it's waterproof and I've put each color and Number on this because it's really a great idea to do this with any watercolor set Okay, so here's the box for the 36 watercolor premium set They are archival meaning they are good quality. They're not going to yellow on you This set also comes with a nice little it's like a travel watercolor pen You open it up like this and put water in the Top part of it Then you screw it back on and it's got a I think it has a little regulator valve to control the water and a Nice little nib. This is a very versatile little nib or Bristle that it has on it. So that's really handy and all these little pans come with their own little labels on them with the colors Now, I guess this is good to be able to see the individual colors. I have a pet peeve I do not like taking labels off anything. I'm like ready to paint but I did go ahead and speed this up and They weren't a little hard to get off But the neat thing about these pans is that they are removable and they can be taken out rearranged You can also add more colors to them or different colors to them With the Arteza watercolors that come in the tube I have that set as well But I really love a little set like this just to travel with and I also happen to really love the color selections in this 36-piece Watercolor set and I'm kind of picky about my color selection So I think they did a really nice job. Okay, so I'm about to get to the end of this This did take a while and now let me show you another little product that Arteza sent me It is another little water color. I'm about to show it right here watercolor Palette that's empty so you can fill your own colors in it So it's really kind of neat if you already have your tubes of color and you just want to empty a little palette like this It's really great. Now is where I begin actually applying One of each of the watercolors under its appropriate name and number and the reason this is important is because colors often appear Different on the paper than they do in the palette in the palette They're typically a little darker and also certain paint colors are have a different Translucence or translucency or opaqueness so what you get to sample as to whether it's kind of see-through translucent or Thicker and not as see-through opaque and so this is a really great way to do it I also wanted to mention that I didn't show in the set That it actually has those nice little wells You can kind of see it at the beginning it right there Where you can kind of mix colors on the sides, which is really great So there are all of the colors and now it's time to get started using these watercolors on This little canvas now. I was so pleasantly surprised that this little canvas took watercolor Very nicely now I think the reason for this is because this artist panel canvas is not the same as a regular Bumpy canvas those are the canvases. I've tried to use before using various products to apply to the surface to make it have Ability to Receive the pastel without it falling off you guys know what I'm talking about if you've watched my channel you can use Clear Gesso because it has a little grit to it. You can use the golden product. That is a pastel ground I've got a video of like eight different products. You can use to create your own pastel surface So what I obviously what I did with this artist panel as I'm applying the watercolor This is just acting as an underpainting. I'm just showing the colors there and Just to kind of give it some color To get just some general mood shapes and to really cover up all that white I'm not really focusing on doing any particular drawing. I'm just emulating kind of big shapes a little bit of value and Again, just kind of getting some color down here. So this again, I was just so pleased I really think I could just do some watercolor on this wood panel I did put a lot of water on it. I made it real drippy and runny. I kind of wanted it like that I am kind of given an idea of the flowers positioning here, but you'll see in a minute It doesn't really matter. Once I apply the product That will cause the pastel to stick. So there's a little cliffhanger You're gonna have to keep watching to see what product am I going to apply to this so that pastels would adhere to it Again, or if you're new, I'll let you know that pastel painting is Really most artists like a Sanded surface versus a flat surface and the reason is with a just a flat surface like paper or like this wood panel Your pastels don't look as brilliant on it and they don't stick. You can't layer it Like you can with a sanded surface. So here's the product I'm using right now to put a little grit to the surface. It's just clear gesso and I did put it in the little thing of the watercolor tray there But the reason clear gesso works versus regular gesso I get this question a lot is clear gesso for some reason I don't know why it has a little bit of grit to it almost like sand within it So once it dries it gives a little bit of texture or tooth for the pastels to hold on to now You can see here Obviously the clear gesso does blend these watercolors which is fine It gives it kind of a nice little dreamy look, but you want to keep that in mind and not just Brush the whole thing. I was being a little bit careful with it because I didn't want to ruin that pink the lightness of the pink up top So I made sure to rinse out my brush with certain sections All right, so this is going to be dry and ready in just a minute Now the clear gesso is dry and you can't hear it here I had to turn the volume down because I had other music playing but if I rub my fingers across it You actually can hear the sanded surface All right, so now I have a way to apply pastel first. I'm going to kind of just sketch in a very general composition and So I can get to painting Now I'll share here a little bit of the process of how you can actually see The success of how pastels will work once I apply the clear gesso here But I'm just going to share a little bit of this process on my Monet cafe YouTube channel this channel and For you know, I'll put it on my Monet cafe art group and on my Susan Jenkins fine art Facebook page But I'm not going to share the entire process of the painting because I'm keeping that exclusive to my Patreon members on my patreon page. So if you'd like to join my patreon page It's only five dollars a month. It's a great thing It's like an art appreciation thing to help me in my channel stay on YouTube bringing free videos But also I try to give my patrons a little bit extra So I'll put the link up here for my patreon page if you'd like to join for five dollars a month and you will be getting a little bit of Extra content behind the scenes things and I have a little bit more of an intimate Way to talk to you guys because on patreon because there's not as many as you know There's over 20,000 subscribers here and in the Monet cafe art group. There are over 8,000 I think close to 9,000 members in that group, which is a great group by the way So there's still all these free resources, but for my special patrons. I just love you guys I'm going to try to give a little extra content. So I'm going to end this video up right here I'll show you the final and I hope you guys learn something about Painting on canvas in this case a wood panel that is prepared like a canvas. So it was really cool I loved finding this out and I hope you will too. Please subscribe if you haven't comment in the section below I try to answer your comments and like this video and feel free to share it. All right guys. Happy painting