I am getting ready to start the portrait in this course. I only have Canson Mi-Tienes paper in buttercup, goldenrod, and steel blue.

Because Luke’s sweatshirt is a blue-green I was thinking the maybe the goldenrod would work best. Does that sound right?

If I don’t hear back as I know you are busy then I will use the goldenrod, or may ask in the live lesson if I remember – lol1

I hope you and your family are doing well. Greetings to all!

Teri

No worries Matt. I was just thinking it was fun to collect them.

Hi Matt,
Thank you for these wonderful tutorials. I’ve learned a lot. This portrait is beautiful. Watching you build the shade parts was scary for a little while, but it all came together in the end! I get to stages like that and think oh man this is not gonna work and I don’t know how to work my way through it. So thank you for that. I have a question though. I store my soft pastels by taping a piece of glassine to them and stacking them and they’re fine. How do you store oil pastels since they are textured and never dry? Thanks for any advice. 😊

Oh no, I must have said that wrong sorry. 😆 Not the sticks themselves, the finished drawings/paintings. I protect the soft pastel ones by taping a piece of glassine over the top so it doesn’t get smeared since I don’t fix them. And just stack them on top of eachother and they don’t get damaged. I was wondering if you can do that with finished oil pastel paintings too, or if it would smoosh/smear them because they have texture and stay wet?

Hi Dustin,

Sorry, I’m just seeing this comment. No – no certificate for this course. I’m not sure if we’ll continue offering the certificates with future courses. They are mostly used for teachers whose districts count credit hours towards renewal.

Hi Faye,

I typically just keep the oil pastels in the box that I bought them in. The Sennelier oil pastels are held in cushioned holders within a box. I definitely do more damage to them when I handle them.