NEW Pastel Painting Discovery! You Gotta Try This DIY Surface (Real Time Tutorial)

NEW Pastel Painting Discovery! You Gotta Try This DIY Surface / Real Time Painting Tutorial I love making new discoveries in my Pastel Painting Journey!! And this is one I will be sure to use for many paintings. Over the years, I have created many videos on making your own homemade soft pastel surfaces, which is a great savings since so many professional pastel papers are quite expensive. One technique I use often is using watercolor paper and clear gesso to create a pastel surface that works quite well. A challenge to this technique, however, is that often the watercolor paper can buckle or curl when you add wet mediums... such as creating a wet underpainting, and then adding the clear gesso. This makes it a bit cumbersome when applying pastels. The paper usually flattens out after some time, but never completely flat in my case. So, that’s why using this new product was so exciting for me! I wanted to try using 300 lb watercolor paper. In the past, I had only used