Oil pastel portrait painting || art process video ♡

in today's video I'm going to show  you how I painted this portrait   in oil pastels from beginning to end  including some failing along the way this is the first time that I'm trying this  Canson’s paper, I heard that it's very good   for soft pastels and I thought that maybe it  could work for oil pastels as well since the   one that I normally use for soft pastels and oil  pastels is the same and it works really well but   I cannot say the same thing for this one because I  like very smooth papers that don't have much tooth   or a lot of texture on them and that feel smooth  to the touch and this one is kinda rough Maybe it will work better for soft pastel I don't  know but for this I felt that I had to put more   paint than usual and you still could see a lot  of graininess from the texture of the paper but   also it was very hard to blend, much harder both  to achieve a smooth look and also on the hands. I tried blending with my hands as I normally do   but it felt quite… I don't know, rough, abrasive.  It was just too much so I tried and I still   wasn't able to achieve a smooth look so  I tried with the paper stump and it was   peeling and leaving all these paper fibers on  the painting and those get stuck on the paint. I think I could have make it work but it  wouldn't have been a very nice experience   so I just decided to start again and using what  I know it works and so I just used another sheet   of Pastelmat and I retraced the drawing as I  normally do because I don't like to paint on   the final surface in case I have to erase or  I don't go on the pencil marks on it With oil pastels, because they are  very prone to smudging with your hand   I try to not put my hand on the painting   like at all if I can avoid it and also to  work left to right because I'm right-handed in this video I'm not gonna go in depth on any  particular topic because I am planning to make a   video on different types of paper that could work  for oil pastels. That one has been highly requested. So the questions that I've been receiving a  lot, like the most common ones have been: which   type of paper can I use to paint with oil pastels, how to layer how to blend and how to achieve   details and fine lines yeah some others about skin tones and something else, I have it written down   So because also many people wanted just to see  the process and how I work I thought this one   would be it. I am not gonna go into a lot of detail  because I will make a separate one for the papers   and another one for painting details so the  other two are the layering the blending and   the layering I kind of do the same thing that I  do with oil paints and soft pastels because oil   pastels feel like a combination of the two. So  I try to first have a light colored layer and from   then I just keep adding paint as I feel it needs  it, instead of using a unique color to do like the   gris……grisaille, I don't know, instead of using  like burnt umber for example to make all the   values of the painting underneath like the underpainting I just go straight with color I think   it's I think the result at the end is more vibrant  but yeah but maybe I can show in a separate video   or something I haven't planned much this one and  the blending it's actually very straightforward. These paints are very creamy and they blend really  well especially if your hands get a bit warm   which mine usually are not but still with the  heat of the hands they blend really well. I use   my fingers for bigger areas or when I need a very  smooth and soft transition or gradient and I use   the paper stamps when I need more precision just  because with my fingers you there are things you   cannot do but yeah I will go on the detailing  part on a specific video I came I don't know   I came up with some tricks I would say to make  fine details like the eyelashes or hair strands   or basically fine things I don't know I thought  I would put up this video it's only 14 minutes or   so just for those that wanted a longer video than  a reel to see how I actually build the painting   I know in Instagram it looks like it's done by  itself but it's not well in any way just so you   know I'm working on quite a lot of things  right now but I hope I will be able to have   some of those in the near future hopefully in a  couple of weeks I will have some other about oil   pastels but before that I also have prepared or  almost ready one or two that are watercolor and   oil painting so I will see how I schedule things  but yeah I'm working on them. If you have any more   questions please leave them below and maybe  I will be able to include them in the videos   and if you have any suggestions as well because  I am very new to this and I'm trying to improve   so yeah I hope it was useful it took me quite  a long time to put together I removed many of the   clips that I thought they were unnecessary  or my face was on the frame or whatever   and I hope that you can see what  I'm doing even if it's not real time yeah I don't think you have anything  else to add so I'm going to let you   continue the video and see you  soon have a nice day bye bye [Music]

Channel: Yolanda Blazquez

Views: 421,482

Keywords: Oil pastels, Oil pastel, Oil pastel drawing, Oil pastel portrait, Oil pastel tutorial, Oil pastel painting, Oil pastel art, Oil pastel techniques, Oil pastel for beginners, Sennelier oil pastels, Sennelier oil sticks

Id: c5lobDl22Qs

Length: 13min 55sec (835 seconds)

Published: Sun May 07 2023