Hi Twilah @Bearinthegarden
What surface is this painted on. Part of the question is because with oil pastels on top, they never completely dry, so they need to be framed with a matt and glass to protect it, right
Terri
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this is awesome looks like a photo but better
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Hi Terri,
This is on Fabriano mixed media paper and then I put Art Spectrum primer/ground on top of the paper. I posted this to contrast with my last post where I’d used soft pastel on the exact same surface and got really terrible results. This is the primer:
To fix oil pastels I sometimes lightly paint over them with acrylic medium. I also have an oil pastel fixative spray made by Sennelier that keeps them from smudging but I really don’t like using sprays because even outside I feel the aerosol is probably doing some harm to some breathing critter somewhere (I didn’t think of that until after I bought it).
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I am so impressed with your clownfish painting. I can see a growth in your watercolor skills beautiful job!
Sonia Alonzo
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Haven’t been around here for a while. Saw this. Amazing!
Thanks so much for showing your process and materials used! So talented! I see these guys at my bird feeder quite often!
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Very nicely done Elina! Love the colors you used. What was your inspiration for those?
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@Meme5 Thank you, Sonia:folded_hands:. This clown fish tutorial was really fun to do. I like my white nights Russian watercolors now 
… The colors are so 
And sincere I have higher quality paper it is so much easier to play with watercolors.
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My question is . . . If you’re using a multi media paper, why do you need to add a primer?
Terri
I was just experimenting with this particular primer. I use this Fabriano mixed media paper without primer for most of the oil pastels I do. I was just playing around to see what would happen if I used the primer on this paper with both soft pastel and oil pastel. Turns out it doesn’t do well with soft pastel, but it allows me to do fun things with texture with oil pastel, like you see in the clouds in the sunflower piece. I experiment with papers and materials sometimes just to see what happens.
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Thanks for the clarification. Nothing wrong with experimenting.
Terri
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Two more pics from the watercolour workshop. Sorry about them beig the wrong way. I changed the colours in the orchid. I know Matt did a yellow background, and I went with a indigo wash instead, and I used fuchsia (Faber Castell AlbrectDürer pencils) as the main colour on the flowers. There are a couple of unauthorized specks of indigo on the flowers, because I didn’t get a proper cover when applying the masking fluid, and the masking fluid also completly erased all pencil lines, so I had to free hand the petals to the best of my ability.
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@james25 The Inspiration was a tutorial on painting and chocolates patreon.
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@siffermus I like your orchides! They are beautiful.
Workng with masking fluid is a interesting thing. I only used it two times and like this possibility…and yes it erases the pencils so strong that I draw most oft it a second time.
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Did this today with watercolor in arche hot pressed 300gr watercolor paper. It is a small one.14,8x21cm (painting and chocolate tutorial)
I am not really happy with the shell, but I am really motivated to get better in handling brushes for details.
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Love the colours on this one. I love that channel Painting and chocolate, too.
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Finished my “Pansies” drawing Friday night. It’s centered on a 16x20 Legion Rising Museum Board 100% cotton paper. It’s going on a matted frame displaying an 11x14 image. Used prismacolor, polychromos, holbein, derwent lightfast, and derwent drawing colored pencils 
Took pictures outside, one under full sun, the other under shade on grass.
Licensed reference image from adobe stock.
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WOW - these are gorgeous. So funny to see how the light chages the colours. This summer I have been taking pictures of the flowers in my garden at dusk, because I like that light. I hope to draw some of them during the oncomming winter.
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