Daniel Greene: Pastel Portrait - JimThis comprehensive instructional video guides the artist in a 2 1 2 hour journey into pastel portraiture. Follow Greene step by step as he paints a pastel portrait from start to finish. This video includes: Valuable tips on how to best organize your materials as well as thorough explanations on pastels, paper and other materials used. An introduction into selecting backgrounds and lighting, and choosing comfortable and natural positions for models. A

Modernism arrived and took the world by storm

The painting of "Rebecca Fire Lit" was done in the studio of his wife

Take a visual tour of his studio and the environment in which he paints

The final touches of a painting that make it come alive

The roses in this arrangement are compelling and beautiful

A special technique for creating delightfully realistic dahlias (hint: it requires using the paintbrush for something other than painting)

and uses of transparent and opaque paints

Has this ever happened to you

Working with photographs of her model

All the building blocks of a successful

How you can easily adapt techniques: You probably already know more about pastel painting techniques than you think

from the first stroke to the last