Oh my! Excellent instructional video. Made my fingers itch to get dirty with my rarely used soft pastels. Last year I dug deep into my wallet buying pastel pencils and a ton of oil pastels, my new fav. This video is a gem; over ten years old and still going strong. It just popped up in my feed today and I will subscribe. Greetings from Toronto 🇨🇦

At first I thought "26 minute video? Who has time for that?" but now I am grateful I did take my time to watch it. Very helpful video, I recommend it. It's more than worth the time.

I have tried to learn how to use pastels from books---and I have read a fair number of them----but one video truly is worth a thousand words!

I truly loved this. It's a medium I love working with but I'm still very much learning.

First off  I can tell you’re a real good artist!!! But the information you gave was right on point and answered a lot of my questions  thank you!!!

What great tutoring. I'm new to pastels .You taught me so much.Thanks Karen New Zealand

Woah! At first I was all like '26 minutes? Why would I watch a long video?' But now I'm like 'Woah this dude is pro'

Please turn ON the CC (captioning) for your video so it's accessible to many more. Thanks.

this was sooo fun to watch. found myself chuckling once in a while .

Having watched many instructional videos on pastel painting, I found this one the most helpful. I liked your teaching style and appreciated all the tips.  After working in other media, I'm just starting out in pastels, and will try to copy this painting using the approaches you showed. Many thanks!

I enjoyed your way of creating this painting and talking through your thought process. The drawing-in of the outer border left it with even more character in the end, so I'll stop taping the sides on every thing. Just a delight seeing this come together. Thanks!

So informative.You are a great teacher.So glad I found your channel.

Gorgeous 😍😮😊

It's very fun to make trees with pastels.

Your tip on keeping the focal point detailed and the rest less so is a gem. Thank you.

This was so good. For some reason I totally forgot about pastel artwork LOL. I used to even fiddle around with it when I was younger. Your personality is wonderful and I thank you for sharing your talent

Very nice it looks even better than the photo

I wish there are several thumbs up buttons so I can press one every time I get an art gold nugget in this video.

I love your work. I heard you say this photo was taken in Monument, Colorado. I just live very close to Monument so it made watching you do this pastel work even more enjoyable!

Very well explained. Beautiful painting.