 Welcome to Monet Café, Artistic Friends. I'm artist Susan Jenkins, and this is a place where you can learn about soft pastel art in the convenience of your own home. Today's tutorial is on painting roses in soft pastel. I was inspired to paint roses because of our monthly theme in Facebook. I'll tell you about that in a minute. Now, I do have extra content for this video over on my Patreon page, and that's at patreon.com-susan-jenkins. In our Facebook group called Monet Café Art Group, we're doing a neat, we always have a monthly theme, but this theme is for roses, and it's for a beautiful cause. Artists are able, if they want to, to donate their painting to a fundraiser that's called 65 Roses. It's for Cystic Fibrosis. All the proceeds go to that. This is a painting I did back in 2016, and you can obviously get creative with your content, adding animals or whatever, as long as it has a rose. Now, this is the set of pastels that I'm using. It's a set from Terry Ludwig Soft Pastels. Oh, you know, these are such beautiful pastels, and I'm going to keep it a mystery here as to what this set is, but I will share that over on my Patreon page, because I want to thank my patrons. They are the reason I've been able to purchase some more art supplies and bring you guys more in-depth art tutorials and product reviews. These are the pastels from the Terry Ludwig set that I'm using for this painting. I do add a few more purples towards the end, but oh my goodness, this set is just wonderful. All right, I am using a piece of UART 400 grit pastel paper. I've just, as you can see, I've blocked off the area that is, you know, kind of representative of the reference photo that I'm using, and I kind of broke my own rule here. I didn't do a preliminary sketch, and that always helps you. But sometimes, if you've got a crazy busy life like I do, I sometimes just have to jump in and start painting. I've been doing some work with my husband on some home renovations, and my painting time is very precious, and sometimes very fast. But I love every minute I can squeeze in. Now, I will have the full tutorial, like I said, over on my Patreon page, but I do not forget about you, my Monet Cafe YouTube channel. I do plan on doing a more simplified rose painting tutorial, just probably of a single rose, giving some more instruction. So at this point, I'm going to add music. You enjoy this tutorial. I've sped it up a bit, but not so fast that you can't see what I'm doing. I learn a lot just by looking. You know, once you've been painting a little bit, you can just kind of analyze and observe what an artist is doing and get a good idea and learn a lot yourself. So enjoy this painting demonstration to music, and thank you to all of my subscribers. Please subscribe if you're not already subscribed to this channel. I bring all kinds of fun videos. We have a great time in this channel, and if you haven't done so, if you want to learn more about soft pastels and share some of your work, you can do that over on the Facebook group, Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook. Just answer a few questions, ask to become a member, and you'll be able to get help, suggestions, critiques, information, whatever you need from so many other artists. We've got artists of every level in that group all helping each other, and it's really got the sweetest spirit. I think the sweetest spirit of any art group on Facebook, and many people say that. I don't think I'm being prejudiced. But anyway, alright guys, enjoy this. I appreciate you so much, and I'll pop back in at the end of the video. I hope you enjoyed this demonstration, and once again, if you haven't become a member in our Facebook group, Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook, and if you'd like a little extra content, and just to support this channel, please consider supporting me on my Patreon page, patreon.com slash Susan Jenkins, and I pray you have a blessed and creative day. Happy painting!