 Well, hello my friends and Monique cafe. We're gonna have some fun This is gonna be a summer fun lesson at least it's summer here where I am in the United States in the southern United States I know we have members from all over the world So but here we have a lot of our kids are out of school and it's time to have some fun So I'm gonna break out these iridescent pastels that I got from the Mount Vision pastel company If you have not heard of them check out my video where I literally do a tour of this facility It's here in Tampa where I live Tampa, Florida. So I love them. Let's get started. Oh, and if you haven't already, please subscribe to our channel It's so fun and we also have a Facebook group Monique cafe art group for today's lesson I'm actually going to be painting over a painting. I've already done. It's a watercolor painting I did with an art student of mine see the glitter was kind of a fun project with a one of my younger art students and I Kind of did this one a little haphazardly because the focus was more on her piece and I always liked it, but it was a little sloppy, you know, because it was just a lesson But I loved adding that glitter. It was just you know, like I said a summer fun project So what I'm gonna do is notice I added the iridescent pastels up there I just held up the clear liquid gesso that I've used in other videos What it's gonna do is allow the pastels to stick to this pastel doesn't adhere to Regular surfaces or watercolor paper very well So I'm just brushing this on with kind of a cheap brush But I'm keeping the strokes directional in the way the flower grows Typically in my other videos when I've done pastel over watercolor paper or any other surface by applying the liquid clear liquid Gesso, I've applied it over the entire surface with a foam brush. So this is kind of a new technique I'm just blowing it dry there, but I've got my clear gesso Strategically placed where I'm going to enhance these flowers. So I've sped this up because I think you can get the idea here I'm just kind of enhancing them brightening them making them bold one thing. I do try to Be careful about with whenever I paint over watercolor is watercolor one of its most beautiful qualities is the luminosity The ability of that white paper to show through and keep that very bright Appearance so I don't want to apply so much pastel that I lose that and that's one of the reasons that I was careful with where I put it Now that as much as I love purple I decide against this using purple in here. It's too dark of a value I'm limited with the colors of this Iridescent pastel said I have that green is much better And just so you know the set that I showed at the beginning of this video It comes However, many there are there's a set to the far left if you go back and look at that picture Those are the darks it doesn't come with the dark iridescent You have to get them separately, but I just got all of them when I was touring the factory Oh, wow the owner is so great his name is Carl Kelly if you live anywhere near the Tampa area He is more than welcome to give you a tour and you can go there and just pick out the pastels You want there's a lot of sets there that I love, but these little iridescent pastels I have not really worked on them at all just goofed off with them for a second This is really the first time I'm using them and I thought I'd just do it in a fun way, you know So I'm re-establishing the darks here in some of the centers of this geranium And they're a little too dark so I soften them in a minute and this geranium is not correct You know, I think typically geraniums have a lot more of those little flowers in them I love geraniums and hydrangeas because they look like little bouquets you cut off one flower And it's like a bouquet of flowers with all the little individual flowers So even though this isn't you know exactly right it's still going to be kind of loose and impressionistic and and just keeping this one kind of Fun easy and this would be a great project to do with kids If you are a pastel artist and you have some pastels is just do a little fun watercolor get you some clear liquid Gesso, it's very cheap and and just play around with enhancing little parts of a flower or of any particular scene Here I decided that I needed a little more variety in this than that one big flower Now I'm just kind of outlining some of these flowers so they show up more individually and I'm adding more of the geraniums kind of just here there and everywhere in the distance there The ones in the background are not going to be the star of the show. Obviously that big one is I'm playing around with this pink here. I think I kind of decide against it later That's something you may want to do as an artist just kind of check Colors before you commit to them just try them, you know Real lightly in a couple of places and go. Hmm. Is that working or is it not and those things get better in time now? I'm loving this blue in there. Of course. I've already got the blue in the upper atmosphere there on the right hand side I tried some of that yellow back there kind of like that I liked it in the top part of the flowers where the light is reflecting and I decided I had splattered that was part of our lesson with my student. We just splattered some watercolor That's kind of a fun impressionistic thing to do But I decided to make the splatters centers of a flower and just make this one kind of Really subdued Underneath the other one it just kind of balanced things out a little bit But I keep that one real impressionistic And I think I even add another one that upper right area is still very bare I actually ended up using that to sometimes I put bible verses on my images I'll take a picture and I think I did that with this one Which is why I left that blank but In a minute. I think I add A flower up there. So just enjoy this. I'm going to finish up and try it. I know you'll have fun Okay, so I'm finishing up here by adding some darks a little bit more of the stems and grasses here and there But wasn't that fun? I hope you enjoyed that and please try it Try it with your kids or just make this kind of a fun summer activity where you lighten up Sometimes we get too serious as artists. 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