 Welcome, artistic friends to Monet Cafe Studio. I'm on painting number two in my winter study series. Now, this is a Patreon-only tutorial, but I'm providing it here on the Monet Cafe channel with a sped up version. In this lesson, I decided to do four paintings of the same subject matter, each using a different set of pastels, just one set for each painting. This was painting number one. For this painting, I used the Diane Townsend Landscape A set of pastels. This is a lovely little set of pastels. I've created multiple paintings with it, and now it's time to start on painting number two. I'm once again using this lovely reference image that's from unsplash.com. I will have that in the description of this video along with all product links. The surface is Kanson Me Tants pastel paper. It's an unsanded pastel paper that's quite affordable and great for beginners. What I used was a page out of the gray tones pad. There's 24 sheets. Each sheet is 12 inches by 16 inches. I used the, I think it was the second to last color in that. It's kind of a tan color. And now I have to make a choice of which set of pastels am I going to use for painting number two. I almost chose this set of Jack Richardson reds. It's called, this is a Diane Townsend set called Smokey Blues. But I decided on this set of Sennelier pastels. It's their 40 half stick set. I highly recommend Sennelier pastels and I think you'll see why. Now the only other pastel I'm using, now this sketch part is gonna be sped up quite a bit because I'm doing it four times in each of the videos. But the only other pastels I used are these little pastels called Prismacolor New Pastels. They're normally long and rectangular, but I break them. And they're really just great for sketching. At this portion of the sketch, you could use anything, a charcoal pencil, whatever. And because this is an unsanded surface, I can use my finger to blend in and get a value study of sorts. Sanded surfaces of pastel paper are awesome, but they're more affordable and it probably would hurt your finger a little bit to blend like that. But now I'm usually left-handed, but I switched to my right hand. It was just easier to get to these trees. And I'm using this gorgeous dark green to sketch in some of the trees. And I think you'll see the difference between this painting and the previous one to the right. The Sennelier pastels had so many gorgeous golden colors and light colors that were very warm. So that's what I decided to accentuate. Look at those pretty mustardy and ochre colors. So I'm going to let you guys watch this to some music, watch the painting come to life. If you would like to see any of these full tutorials, they are on my Patreon page. It's patreon.com slash Susan Jenkins. And it's only $5 a month, not $5 a day or $5 a week, just $5 a month. And you unlock hundreds of lessons and you support this channel, Monet Cafe. It's what keeps the free lessons coming because people support me on my Patreon page. But this lesson, number two in the series is real time on my Patreon page with full commentary. Plus we have a lot of fun. I get to see your work, we have sharing platforms. But anyway, it's Christmas time and I just wanted to share some tutorials with you. And I thought some lovely Christmas music would be nice. So enjoy this. I'll be back at the end though for some more comments on the differences between these two paintings. All right, enjoy. Merry Christmas and I'll be back. Almost done at this point, but now I'm adding a little bit more of my lightest highlights on those areas where they might just be catching a little bit of that sunlight filtering through the trees. And again, I got a brag on this little Sennelier set of 40 pastels. They have gorgeous colors. Their application is awesome. And I'm quite impressed that I can get so many layers on an unsanded surface. Typically you can't get that many layers, but for some reason this little set, it's like a workhorse, it did a great job. So can you see the dramatic difference between the two? Some of it has to do with the colors in each of the two different sets. Remember the first one was the Diane Townsend Landscape A set. I love that set. But some of it has to do with how the pastels apply as well. So each set has its own advantages and beauty. Oh, and I decided, if you follow me long, you know I like to punch up color. And I love to add a color at the end that gives some pizzazz. And oh my goodness, was this pink just the perfect selection. There were two pinks actually. One was more magenta and one was a little warmer. And I'm just getting a few more skinny trees in there, carving in a little bit more darks in the tree trunks. And here I am, finished with painting number two. Wow, I really loved this one. And I have two more to go. By the way, each of these is six inches wide by seven inches tall. This large piece of 12 by 16 cantson paper fit for paintings of this size. So I hope you enjoyed this. I hope you will subscribe to this channel if you haven't already. And if you would like to bless this channel and me consider becoming a patron of mine on my Patreon page. It's only $5 a month. You get lots of lessons. There's lots of goodies and we have a lot of fun. So everyone have a merry Christmas. I have more coming. I have a snowman tutorial coming. So it should be awesome. All right, everyone. God bless and happy painting.