 Hello and welcome to Monet cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins. I'm glad you're here with me today where I'm literally gonna paint What's in front of me which happened to be my coffee cup? This is part of a painting challenge in my patreon group where we're painting for 12 days It's called 12 days of healing so I'm gonna give you the sped-up version And the full version is on my patreon page But I still want to share this with you guys in Monet cafe if you wanted to become a patron to see the full version It's only five dollars a month and you can cancel at any time, but first let me give you a little back story to this coffee cup I Got the mug when I was visiting my mom during her radiation treatments for her cancer battle and praise the Lord She is cancer-free now still having some challenges from the radiation But I took a trip with my mom after one of her treatments to an art gallery and a natural history Museum with my niece and my mom we had a great time and There was some amazing things that we saw and yes, we have big mouths like a shark But it was a lot of fun and we all bought these beautiful artistic mugs that were made by another artist They're all unique, but all three of us bought these mugs and now I can think about my mom every time I have a cup of coffee in the morning. Okay, let's get started with this lesson even though this Video I'm making here will be a more sped-up version for Monet cafe I still wanted to give you some information as to the supplies that I used I'm using my typical drawing method here I usually don't like to do a grid system, but I do make little marks. You may see the little third I do it sometimes I do it in quarters. Sometimes I do it in thirds So I just made marks where thirds are on each side and I can visually gauge where things are From that and when you are doing things such as a coffee cup or anything with Perspective like buildings or you know those types of objects rather than a tree or leaves and things like that You definitely want to make sure you get things correct proportionately For example, you see me correcting a lot here. I know I want to get the The basic shape and drawing of this correct now I can correct some when I go to do the pastels and I do But it's really a good idea when doing a subject matter like this to go ahead and get some things right You'll see me kind of correct things as I go along that's just a pastel pencil by the way and what I am working on is Sennelier La carte pastel card. This is a pastel surface that I love It is it comes in pads as you see the picture here. I really I've only bought them in pads I never buy the individual sheets because I love this paper so much and it's very coarse and to me it lends itself more towards that Impressionistic style and it helps just to keep things loose and painterly. That's how I feel anyway And that's one really plot big plus about this paper One thing that's maybe a negative about this paper is that it does not take water like some of the other sanded pastel papers They like you art you can add water pastel matte You can add water if whether you want to do a water under color painting or a gouache under color painting or acrylic You know you you have that versatility or flexibility. Whereas with this you don't so Basically you're gonna see after the drawing I'm gonna explain really quickly the pastels that you're gonna see with this which are the there they are It is the Terry Ludwig umber shades and shadows set I thought they had some nice neutral colors in it for this coffee mug. I did add one dark down there at the bottom Left that's a Terry Ludwig dark. It's in the intense dark set I didn't want to go so dark like some of the darks in my painting The other one is a purple because the mug had some purple in it from a Terry Ludwig set That's the Maggie price set and this is a teal. I knew the cup had some teal in in it This ended up being too light. I had to get some more teals But that is a Diane Townsend pastel so I will be showing you as even though I'm speeding this up I'm not gonna speed it up so fast, but I'll be holding up any additional pastels I add I do add some additional purples and I add some additional teals I needed some darker values, so I usually work by getting backgrounds in first with something like this I just feel like it grounds the object Getting my shadows and my values in correctly And again constantly tweaking making sure I have the proportions right of this all right guys So again if you want to see the full version I talk a lot in that version But hopefully giving a lot of valuable instruction About this type of a lesson, but you guys enjoy I do again always say you can learn a whole lot just by watching somebody paint So enjoy this lesson I'm happy to still be bringing you these lessons right now My patreon income is one of my only incomes because of you know What's going on with the corona virus and I'm happy to see that My patrons are growing you know and I appreciate your support those who are supporting me And I also know that right now some people finding themselves with more free time and maybe they have more time to actually Get on patreon whether it's to me or any other artist and learn a little bit more about painting So all right guys enjoy this lesson be blessed Stay safe, and I will be happy when all of this is over for our world and for all of us All right guys stay to the end. It really helps subscribe like this video feel free to share and happy painting So here I'm just adding some of the little highlights right there on the little Edge of where the coffee meets the cup and also on the handle And I really enjoyed painting this plus I thought about how symbolic it is for Monet cafe Because it's literally what I thought about this group from the beginning It's just getting together with friends to create art, so I hope you guys are blessed be safe Please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already check out more videos and come back often all right guys happy painting