 Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm excited to bring you this tutorial that I think is going to help a lot of people. I know many of you don't have that many pastels so I want to show you what you can do with only 12 pastels. Now this video is all real time and I made it specifically that way because of one of my patrons I had in mind. She mentioned that sometimes the speed videos are a little hard to follow and she just touches my heart that she's learning to paint at 80 years old so this video I'm dedicating for surely. And yes I really did use only 12 pastels. Now I worked on a piece of pastel matte. I have come to really love pastel matte here lately. You can buy it in pads of different colors in each pad. This is a 9 by 12 sheet and I'm marking off an 8 by 10 area. I find these mats are very handy for doing that. I know those outside perimeters were 8 by 10. I'm using a piece of willow charcoal. I really like it to sketch with. It's literally just like a long skinny piece of charcoal. The photo is from PMP-ART.com where you can get copyright free reference images. Now I'm using a Prismacolor new pastel. It's the number 305 spruce blue. I love new pastels. They're excellent to do under paintings. They're a harder pastel and this particular one you see how little it is. It's because I use it a lot. It's great for just getting in an initial value study which is what I'm doing. You see I'm laying it on the side and just really looking at big shapes at this point and getting in just the basic overall composition to work from. Now I'm going to be showing you a little bit more during the video of some of the different pastels I used. And by the way the music you'll be hearing when I'm not jabbering like I am now is from my daughter-in-law's sister. Her name is Elita Serducken and she writes original music and it sounds like an angel. I'm limited in the music I can provide and I know I don't have to have any music but I'm a musical person. And so when things are quiet I feel like you guys should hear it but it has to be copyright-free and this beautiful music from Elita is. Now if you're watching this video for its premiere which is Friday on the 23rd of April 2020 we can chat together. I can answer questions and I've opened this up for both my patrons and for those in Monet Cafe Art Group. So I'll play this lovely music and since this is real time and the video in total is it's less than 40 minutes we should have plenty of time to talk answer questions and I think it will be fun. So enjoy this guys and I'll enjoy chatting with you. Really had a peaceful time in creating this painting and when it was done I believe I called it a better place. You know right now there's a lot going on in our world and but I always have a hope I know I'm going to a better place and it's better than this old world but but I do love so much of our creation and this reference photo was just very hopeful. There's something about roads that lead off in a way that you know feels hopeful to me. So I hope you enjoyed this again. Please leave a comment about whether or not you liked this format and using a limited palette. I'd appreciate it. Often I like to convert my paintings to black and white and you can really see value better. I recommend doing this while you're in the midst of painting like some progress shots and convert them. Well here are the little sweet little 12 pastels that I use to create this painting and I hope that encourages a lot of you who may not have a lot of pastels yet or not be able to afford them. They're very expensive. Alright guys please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already hit the bell icon if you want to be notified of more videos. Become a patron if you like for only $5 a month and you can do so at the link right here. Happy painting.