 Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins, and it is cloud month, so I hope you will enjoy this pastel painting demonstration where I will be painting some clouds to some music. This is part of a longer, full of commentary and all real-time Patreon video of mine, but I wanted to make it available to you guys here on Monet Café as well, even though there's no commentary, you should be able to follow along. And if you're a first-time visitor to Monet Café, I would love it if you would like this video, subscribe to this channel, make a comment, and hit that bell icon to be notified of future videos. If you would like to see the longer, real-time, full commentary version of this, please consider becoming a patron of mine. It's only $5 a month. It supports this channel, keeps these free videos coming, and we have a lot of fun. Even though this version isn't real-time and it will be to music, I do want to go over some products. I'll be using Pastel Matte. It is a pastel surface that's excellent for soft pastels. The color I'm using is light blue. It's part of this pad that comes with different colors. It's approximately 12 inches by 16 inches, and I have taped it off. I'm going to be doing six cloud paintings this month. Again, my patrons will get all of the real-time content, and you guys are going to get many of these paintings as well. I used black artist tape, half-inch wide, to tape my surface to a piece of black foam core board. Since I'm working flat, it helps me to be able to pick it up, take it out, and knock it off to keep the pastel dust to a minimum. Now, what I did is I measured off four-inch squares. I just tried to not paint too tiny, but I wanted to get quite a few of these on one sheet. Four inches was about the largest I could go, so they're all going to be four by four-inch paintings. I'm taping off little divisions so that I'll have them all blocked off and ready to go. I just wanted to share that process with you in case you want to do something similar. I think it's fun, too, when you do something like this. If you like them all at the end, you can remove the tape and frame them all as one. Create a mat or have them all cut and frame them separately. I often love working in series like this. You also may choose to work upright. That's actually how I prefer to work with pastels because the dust falls off. For filming purposes, you guys have overwhelmingly shared with me that you can see everything better. I have my light directly overhead when I work in this capacity. The reference images I'll be using for all of these next cloud painting series are all my own. I've actually created an album with all of these cloud reference images and lots more. Again, that's a Patreon-only special. If you're a patron of mine, you'll see in this post with the real-time footage that whole album that you'll have access to. The pastels I'll be using are called Schminke. They're a German-made pastel and this is a 120-half-stick set. I love it and I'm sorry to say this particular set is not available anymore. I got it from Dakota Pastels. I love that company and they do have a 50-half-stick set available. It's on a pretty good sale right now at this time of this video anyway. Well, let's get started. I'm going to use just a little piece of charcoal to sketch out the beginning. Now I'm going to add some music and you guys can enjoy. Even though it's sped up a bit, you can pause it at any time to catch up. If you recreate from this tutorial, if you're not a patron of mine, my patrons have a homework album where they can share all their work. I'd love to see it. But if you're not a patron of mine, you can become a member of the Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook. We've got over 16,000 members in that group. It's such a wonderful place for all artistic levels, beginner, intermediate, advanced, and everybody helps each other. You can also find me on Instagram at Susan Jenkins Artist. I love it when you find me and follow me and especially when you tag me if you share one of your recreations on Instagram. I just love that. Alright guys, enjoy this and I will have some more information at the end of this video. So have fun and enjoy the music. Hope you've enjoyed this demonstration of painting number one in the cloud painting series. There will be more on the way. And I will also have by the end of this month all of the paintings compiled together for a video here on Monet Cafe where I'll talk about all kinds of cloud painting tips and techniques. So be sure to subscribe, come back often. God bless and happy painting.