Hope you guys learn lots from this tutorial! This is such a wonderful way to create a luminous glow beneath landscape paintings. Let me know what you think!

@sarahbhutta251

8 ай бұрын

I’ve fallen off the art wagon! I think this would be a good place to get myself back on track. Thank you!

@amandagoodinson5747

8 ай бұрын

How do you prepare your prices for framing?

Looking at them makes me smile, because they are sweet, happy paintings. I’m 81 and I appreciate you teaching this old dog new tricks. Bless you Susan and thank you. ❤️

What fun, Susan! This is a great way to present the concept of underpainting. It does make a subtle change in the finished painting. The small paintings do, indeed, make a lovely foursome collected into one. It is also always awesome to see you younger artists comfortably connect with technology/

@JCcreates927

3 ай бұрын

I hope you know it was older generations that actually created the technology you use everyday. My hubby and I are 63 yrs old. We can build a computer, I taught myself Adobe photoshop when it was like 3 or 5 in '93, we can code, build websites, etc. I think the younger generations that use technology on a daily basis but they don't know what MS DOS is or Linux, etc. they just know how to use it.

Thank you sharing your gifts with us. Our Creator blesses us through you. You are loved and appreciated! Thank you! ❤

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

You are so welcome☺️❤️☺️

Thank you, Susan! These 4 paintings are beautiful, and I always learn so much from your videos. I also love your warm and positive energy 💗. Yes to a Firefly tutorial!

I love your reference photos. And the resulting works as well.

Thank you Dear Susan , I always learn a lot and enjoy watching you paint, what beautiful paintings u created , amazing⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, @meltemashley1808! Your comment blessed me.

Susan you've given me an excuse to use the Golden high flow acrylics, Liquitex Ink and Dr. Ph Martin's Hydrus liquid colors I've had on my shelf for over a year now. Wasn't sure what to do with them as they were a gift but I'd never used them before. Now I am going to try your technique to create that background glow when I design a new pastel piece of work. You are so creative, I just love watching your tutorials. Thanks again for making them and showing us how to use our art supplies to enhance our pastel work. Blessing to you and yours. I also love the fact that read scripture in many of your videos. Love to follow a fellow Christian.

@monetcafe

7 ай бұрын

YAY!! Thank you! @ElizabethKilbride Comments like this are part of why I do this. I love insiring others, especially in their art journey! Thank you for your sweet comment! PTL! Blessings to you and yours, sweetheart!

So beautiful, love the loose style

Sooooooo sweet!💖

Beautiful as always! I love the acrylic inks! They are beautiful and affordable and require less expensive pastels on top! Thanks so much for the lesson.

Watercolorist here. Gosh, so pretty. Now I might have to go to pastels.

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Go for it! I hope I've inspired you!

Thank you for giving alternatives for art supplies.

@monetcafe

3 ай бұрын

Hi, @karenortega2046. Here is a list in my Amazon Shop of some pastel painting products I recommend for beginner pastel artists. Hope this helps! Thank you for watching!! Happy Painting! www.amazon.com/shop/monetcafewithartistsusanjenkins/list/2NY2AMTL7D050?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_list_d

Thank you so much for your video. I have learned so much by watching and listening to you. God Bless!

@monetcafe

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad! Yay!!😁

Stray watercolorist who wandered in. I do have some pastels on hand. This gives me inspiration to pull them out and play with them.

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful!!! I think you will fall in love with pastels!❤️☺️👏

I love them!

@monetcafe

3 ай бұрын

Awesome @dominikaszymanska8014, I appreciate that so much!

Oh thank tou love this! Thank you

Love what you've created!!! Wow! I've never seen colors react like this! Just was popping in to see you... so fun & encouraging! I love your tshirt! Is it one of yours? God bless you from a California Gramma ❤

I also have a degree in graphic design, I bought Adobe Photoshop first in '94 and taught myself how to use it, but I gave up Adobe when Serif came out with photo because of how badly Adobe customer service treated me. The way they treated me was over several months and times of calling in to them.

Beautiful!! I love the one with the sloping hillside best. ❤

Really beautiful.❤

youre so awesooome!!🥺😍

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!! You made me smile.

Beautiful color palette!

@monetcafe

7 ай бұрын

🙂 🙂 🙂 ❤, @shawnmcnulty170

❤⚘️lovely painting. Love the flower's against the sky and the dark folliage.

Beautiful as always!

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Hannah.

Thank you Susan for your fantastic channel. You really are a inspiration, your so gifted & thank you for sharing!

This is one of my favorite videos of yours! It was very informative about the technique and benefit of using a glowing underpainting. Each of the four paintings were little gems! A Firefly tutorial would be really great! Thank you!

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! That input really helps me to know what my viewers want. Thank you so much and I’ll try to have a fire fly tutorial coming soon.

Beautiful Work !!

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Bless you, I appreciate that!

A great video to unwind and learn...❤❤love the tutorials and artwork

I love these so much. I'm trying so hard on being more painterly and loose. I have an awful habit of 'complicating and cluttering' my paintings 🥴...xx

Thank you. New to pastels

@monetcafe

3 ай бұрын

YAY!! Thank you! @annarice6290 Comments like this are part of why I do this. I love inspiring others, especially in their art journey! Thank you for your sweet comment! Happy painting!

Lovely as always, but I'm curious about where you purchased that little fan with the hepa filter? I could definitely use something like that!

Using inks are a good way to get warmth into an underpainting this helps as an ice breaker if you're faced with a blank sheet of white paper. Using AI to help create ideas (aide memoir) is a time saver, pre internet days I'd create lots of thumbnail sketches, colour swatches & small drawings with colour notes (I still do) ever hopeful of some happy little accidents. I loved the wonderful paintings that you've created & a superb lesson to, thank you Susan :)

Hi I do water colour and oil paintings I have not really done much pastel painting but I love your work and might try pastels again sometime ❤

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, @yvonnejonker3969! Your comment blessed me.

This was wonderful! I’m very new to pastels and I’ve been doing all of my art laying flat. I searched your Amazon and couldn’t find the filter you used with the hepa filter. Which one do you use or suggest?

I would love a tutorial on making reference photos with adobe firefly ai. And I will likely be subscribing to your Patreon soon. (Once I get my new painting area set up.) Love your tutorials! I'm learning so much!

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

That sounds wonderful! Have fun getting your new painting area set up! Being an artist is so much fun.

what a great way to use AI. And you are REALLY making me want that Reds set LOL

Hi Susan 👋 I saved up a bunch of videos so I could binge 😂 on Monet cafe! I love your tape dispenser. What brand is it? It looks sturdy and I don't mind hunting for one of its vintage. Okay, back to the video and gorgeous colors ❤

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Binge away! The tape dispenser I use is made by LEM. I got mine on Amazon.

@KikiFu

8 ай бұрын

@@monetcafe Thank you so much! Have a wonderful day and happy painting 🖌️ (we really need pastel Emojis) 😀

Hello Susan, Do you have many other videos for which you use tools with pastels? Thank you for all that you do.

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, @eileensnyder7356! I'm so glad you like it!! What kind of tools do you mean, sweetheart?

@eileensnyder7356

7 ай бұрын

One type of tool might be sponges?@@monetcafe

I’m about to do a sunset and trying to decide between PY150 or PY184…maybe a mix of the 2, for yellow underpainting..(sorry, I do occasional pastel, but I think this will be mainly watercolor, possibly ink for the dock… ). Just have never done such a bright, glowing sunset before (google Santa Cruz sunset from about 2 weeks ago & you’ll see what I’m attempting..BRIGHT orange, red & purple!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@monetcafe

2 ай бұрын

🙂 🙂 🙂 ❤, @candidadelacruz1155 Thanks so much!

I use Procreate. Your image is your own so no restrictions.

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Yes, I like the "ownership" aspect of Procreate.

I have a lot of fluid acrylics and they are so fantastic for Uart, but make a mess on pastelmat for me because it buckles the paper. How do you use this ink without buckling the pastelmat? I LOVE your work!

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

I think it doesn’t buckle much, because the acrylic ink is really thin and watery in its consistency. And, you only need a little bit because the color is so vibrant.

@wizzardofpaws2420

8 ай бұрын

Oh thank you!!@@monetcafe

How do you fix soft pastels? I use Sennelier soft pastels and the Sennelier soft pastel fixative spray. Every time I use the spray it mutes the vibrant colors even with a light coat spraying 2 feet away.

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Yes, unfortunately, every fix the spray will alter the colors a bit and that’s why I never spray fixative for the final painting. Sennelier Latour fixative is one of my favorites though, and I’d like to use it during the working phases of a painting. I like to keep my pastel Paintings safe by temporarily storing them in clearbags with a piece of foam core board. This works great for temporary storage and for shipping. I buy my clear bags from www.clearbags.com.

I have a question that I'm sure every pastel artist experience. I use Sennelier extra soft pastels however, some of them are so hard and scratchy that are unuesable. How do you soften these soft pastels that are hard and scratchy? Thank you for your time.

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

This happens because certain colors are made from different materials that are more coarse than others. I find it often happens with a really brilliant dark aqua blue. Often I will rub it down on a piece of sanded paper. That seems to help a bit👍🏻❤️

@warbaby1975

8 ай бұрын

@@monetcafe Thank you for your input, your always super helpful and thank you for teaching us your great talent.

why does mine never turn out like yours😥

You continue to blow me away… Commentary: When it comes to comparing something, we need a good mental picture; without it, the probability of our thoughts to be wrong, are high. When I was a member of the workforce, I surrounded myself (collectively) with people who were opposites; much like the yin and yang story. When looking at both, I see two halves of something greater; neither a whole within themself. In other words, each is a fraction of something different. So how does the greater good come out from such an arrangement..? It's called diplomacy. But, when one out-numbers the other; one will be eaten. This is why we have laws restricting such behavior. Unless the dragon could care less. So, the question is; can you see the Dragon..?

Hi Susan, I am not an IP lawyer , but I would be careful using Adobe Firefly ( generative ai) it looks like you can not use it for commercial use ( for your paid subscribers, patreon, I assume you are monetized on KZread) and they might sub license what you create . I found the terms link at the bottom of the firefly page, in the new window , scrolled down,selected the terms for generative ai. I don’t think KZread will let me paste the link here. If you learn anything, please share ❤👋

@monetcafe

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for that info. I knew that I could not use the images for commercial use. I assumed that would be for things like marketing, a product, using in a commercial, and basically making it look like it was my image, and not from Adobe fire fly. I’m thinking that since I’m just using them as references to create a Paintings that it would be OK. But it’s worth the due diligence to check the specifics. Thanks for that reminder.

@AnnieTroe

8 ай бұрын

@@monetcafe It doesn't say what you create is a CCO image and it probably is commercial since your patrons who pay you are using them and not just you & you make money if you sell your painting generated from it. No an issue if they can't recognize your painting is from the Firefly reference image. Again, I am not an IP lawyer, but can give you mine guys name if you like. No pressure, I just wanted to give you a heads up. I think it is odd that they may sub license what you create in Firefly too, then I don't think you can license your painting to manufacturers (put on products for sale etc). . Copyright is a big stinker. LOVE your work! Happy Creating