 Hello and welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins. We're gonna have some fun today and if you're new here please subscribe and hit that little bell icon to be notified of future videos. Hello artistic friends and fans of gorgeous color. I'm doing a product review today on a Richard McKinley set of pastels from the awesome company Terry Ludwig Pastels. I've been buying their products for years and I always hope I'm saying it right Ludwig Ludwig. I don't think they care. They're awesome people at this company so join me in this product reveal and let me tell you a little bit more about why I love these pastels. These luscious gems of color are shaped in a rectangular format. They are also very flat and very smooth. When you apply a stroke you don't have to worry about imperfections. They are precision made and I happen to love the fact that they come without labels. You don't have the laborious task of removing all of the labels. These pastels are some of the softest in the artist grade pastel category and that means you can count on these pastels for those final finishing strokes that are bold and beautiful with color with a richness and vibrancy that is so well known for the medium of soft pastels. And another reason I've come to love this company is these guys. The company is amazing. The people are awesome to deal with and you always get what you pay for with these amazing soft pastels. So let's dive into this product reveal video where I will be showing you the Richard McKinley set from Terry Ludwig Pastels and creating the color chart that's provided with every set. I got this particular Richard McKinley set because in my Patreon group we're going through what I call storytime different pastel books and we're now in the Richard McKinley book Pastel Pointers. So I figured if I'm going to be in this book I need this set, right? So this is the color chart that's provided with every set of Terry Ludwig Pastels. Mine got a little dusty from having it in my studio and I had already made a mark in that top corner there because I wanted to just keep track of what was the top corner. And now let's take a look at these beautiful pastels. I love the set that Richard McKinley curated. I think they have such a great variety to do landscape painting and many other types of subject matter, but I happen to really love his style and his color choices. And what I like about the arrangement is, noticed on this left hand side, if you go vertically down, these are more of the neutral colors and the dark Terry Ludwigs. And yes, it does have that eggplant color. Everybody loves as a dark on the bottom there. Now on the right side, they're more of the bolder, high chroma, more intense colors with some more lighter value choices at the bottom right. So I thought I'd invite you guys, along with me, as I fill in the pastels into the color chart. And actually, I think I got one out of order there. I was, oh yeah, I got to fix that. But the reason these charts are so valuable is that often you might run out of a pastel or getting close to it running out. And when you go to find it online, you can't always count on the recreations of colors in print or on the computer. So these color charts are like gold when you want to reorder a color that's your favorite or just one that you might want to get again. And I know some of my patrons have already bought this set in anticipation of the Richard McKinley book that we're going to be in this coming week on Wednesdays. We have story time. And if you're not sure or familiar with what Patreon is, it's a neat way where you can become a patron of somebody who offers lessons. There's all kinds of different people on Patreon. But there's many artists. And I have my Patreon page where a lot of people will support me for $5 a month just to support this channel to keep the free videos coming this way. And also to help me be able to afford the supplies and the things that I need to keep it going. Plus, you get extra lessons as a patron and a lot of neat things. We just started a new method of communication that is so cool. I'm enjoying getting to know all of you guys in my Patreon page. So I hope you enjoyed that product reveal of the Terry Ludwig Richard McKinley set. I have lots of sets that I love from the Terry Ludwig company. So the product's amazing. The people at the company are awesome. And it's made in the good old US of A. All right, artists, keep making the world more colorful and happy painting.