I have seen a lot of your tutorial videos and this is probably my very favorite end result. I love the way you use the lavenders and oranges in the bird and the way you abstract the water! Thanks for the powder blender tips. I just started using the medium and I appreciate your insight and tips!
Lisa, you have been, are, and always will be AMAZING. This work is so fantastic. You are indeed a master of the 'color pencil'. you not only create wonderful work, you have a gift on how to demonstrate what you do and a talent to teach your techniques. I have lost track on how ling I have been viewing your work, but you get better and better each time I view your work. Lisa, we all appreciate what you do and how you do it. Have a great day.
This has got to be my favorite piece of yours. Amazingly good! I too love working in the powder blender and colored pencil so I can really appreciate your talent on this. Great work!
I love your work Lisa, I live in the North East of Scotland and coloured pencil artists are very hard to find here, so I watch your video's all the time. I am so enjoying watching the video's of the live stream. Ann Traverse
thanks Lachri, so much informative stuff. and the end product looks real great, especially with touch-up texture and titanium white. I use it myself and just preparing to do my first portrait with Alyona products.
Amaazing Lisa (as always) Like you said, only practise makes you improve. Thanks so much for your tips. I want to let you know that I love your livestreams, every time Im drawing or painting I load one of them. Lots of love!!!
You are the best teacher ever! I have watched so many of your videos. In one you recommended a white colored pencil for the sandpaper. Please remind me of the pencil brand as I have forgotten in which video you explored that.
Lisa, how do you deal with the nerves before starting a new painting? I'm working on three concentrations that tie into each other, and I've done all my research but it's rough. Getting started, actually started with the paint (oil on canvas) really stops me from comfortably getting started.
Girrrrl you're costing me a lot of $$$...bought OMS, a full set of polychromos (I have a large set of Prismacolors too), now just bought texture fixative and touch-up texture/titanium white... 🤣 It's a good thing, though..I was getting "stuck" on some things and am eager to try the texture fixative, etc. Loving the polychromos. Hoping your back feels better! Thank you for the videos, they are so informative!
Thank you Lisa! ❤️. Have you tried Caran d'ache Museum Aquarelles?! I finally bought them and could not imagine that they could be as good as they are. Would love to see what your thoughts on them are!
Cara Thank you for a wonderful demo of a brand new (to me) method. I bought the whole kit, followed your instructions and have finished my picture. Now I have questions about the final fixative spray. Does it waterproof and protect my work so that I do not need a glass and can just put it into a frame? If not, how do I attach a mat to the heavy sand paper board? And on my card under medium, do I "put "polychromo colored pencil onProArt Board"? Help!
Lisa, I am so excited to have found your site. I have been doing colored pencil for years sometimes using OMS. I have ordered the oil based pencils and the powder blender kit. Can't find the Fisher 400 Sanded Paper Premounted. Where do you order yours? In my "impulse purchase" pile I found an Ampersand pastel board and a textured clay board. Would either work? Cara
Is there another way of applying the gesso without using an airbrush?? And would I need to buy all the supplies that are listed on the website for my first time using it??? Such an amazing work!!!
You can paint it on but you can end up with uneven brush strokes that way. It's much easier to just buy some sanded paper. The uArt 500 is pretty good and not too expensive if you're looking for lower cost alternatives :)
Question... I just ordered the powder blender as it looks like it has an awesome effect! You mention using sanded paper or gessoing paper as it needs a non-absorbent surface. I have gessoed mdf panels already. Would these work just as well with the powder blender? It would be non absorbent, but perhaps would it be too hard a surface compared to gessoed paper?
with the texture fixative does it matter if you spray over the paper you haven't drawn/coloured on yet. I see you spray often over your drawing but I worry about the paper not drawn on. Lovely piece Lisa
getting ready to buy a colored pencil set and i ran across an old video of your's ...prismacolor vs faber castell, really glad i did, that made up my mind, if yer gonna spend some money on a product the least they could do is check their quality before it leave's the shop. anyway, thanks for the tip's, and your work is beautiful
Hi Lisa, I have a question. In your opinion, would Grumbacher workable fixative work in place of the texture fixative from brush and pencil? I just cannot afford the $18 plus $14 shipping to get the brand you recommend in the video. I want your honest opinion though, even if it's gonna cost me more. Thanks for all you do.
love your work! I noticed you used 3 different colored pencil brands, how bout a video on the different characteristics of each, and why you use each. Just an idea.
Sweeney stainpain H84U Ummm... No. She uses odourless minerals spirits and the powder blender for two different things, because they achieve two different things. If she had started off the drawing using odorless mineral spirits and then changed to powder blender would that then mean by your logic that she preferred the powder blender?
Tanvir Kaur Dhillon If you are in doubt about what to choose it could help you to Google examples of the mediums you have in mind, so you have an idea of the effect that can be achieved with said mediums (and how much detail you can add with each)
You can either freehand or use the grid method if it is paper that you are drawing on. If it is canvas, use transfer paper or a projector to project the reference pic onto the canvas. 😊👍🏻
Hi Lisa, I saw another demo where you talked about not using this method on normal paper, only on sanded board or gessoed paper. But I would like to know, does the textured spray work on normal paper? in general, how does these products work on oil pencils vs wax pencils? Getting hold of the products in Europe is impossible because of the spraycans that can't be sent by air mail. Can't get sanded paper here or prismacolor pencils either Wish they would sell it in pump atomizers whitch would eliminate that problem.
Apparently, Lisa is in hospital at present, so she can't reply. She says that the powder blender works well on oil based pencils like the Polychromos, not so well on wax-based ones like Luminance. The texture spray should work on them all. HTH
Adriaan van Pijkeren If you like paints. Use paints. If like them to dry faster then use Acrylics. If you don't want them to dry faster and want to do a lot of blending use, oils. If you holding pencils and love working for a looong time, by making several layers and blending them. Use colour pencils. Also watch video on how to use each medium on youtube. Lisa might have them as well. Finally make a decision and buy a small set if your preferred medium. Use it 😊 And when you can buy another medium to try again.Hope it helped👍🏻
WOW do you think you could do a tutorial on water surfaces? This is soooo cool but it's too fast to get what you're doing. If you could it would be very helpfull!
This is great lisa, im learing a lot from your videos, though it seems like the best stuff is not availebal in my country (powder blender) -my life in a nutshell ;)
You are very talented however and I mean this is the best way possible, I feel like a lot of artists on here aren't taking the time to do real time teaching of the PROCESS of how they get these amazing works rather more of a showing off of their skills in a sped up manner. I watch to learn things and as soon as I see it's going to be a sped up version I end the video. I think it would be more beneficial to viewers if you were to show your techniques in real time, don't edit out your mistakes being made, show and name ALL colors ur using and how ur applying them, how your blending, when you switch mediums ect... I don't know about anyone else but I want to see a real time painting video where it's right up to the canvas so we can see every detail even if it takes several videos to do one painting rather than seeing a lightening fast sped up version. I absolutely love your work and would love to see more in depth teaching I guess is what I'm trying to say!
Has anyone noticed colored pencils fading using sandpaper and textured fixative like she is here? The next day or even hours later, colors are lighter and look grittier. Any ideas? I’m SO bewildered.
Angela Equd I know, but if you can't understand what she is saying it might help anyway. Or try using subtitles. ;) what I guess I'm saying is: she isn't going to speak slower, Lisa is always in speedy Gonzales mode.
Very impressive piece of work Lisa. Just WOW!
I have seen a lot of your tutorial videos and this is probably my very favorite end result. I love the way you use the lavenders and oranges in the bird and the way you abstract the water! Thanks for the powder blender tips. I just started using the medium and I appreciate your insight and tips!
Lisa, you have been, are, and always will be AMAZING. This work is so fantastic. You are indeed a master of the 'color pencil'. you not only create wonderful work, you have a gift on how to demonstrate what you do and a talent to teach your techniques. I have lost track on how ling I have been viewing your work, but you get better and better each time I view your work. Lisa, we all appreciate what you do and how you do it. Have a great day.
Gorgeous result. I've never tried (nor even heard of) powdered blender. A real eye-opener.
Girl you got SKILLZz!!!!!
Absolutely gorgeous!
This has got to be my favorite piece of yours. Amazingly good! I too love working in the powder blender and colored pencil so I can really appreciate your talent on this. Great work!
I love your work Lisa, I live in the North East of Scotland and coloured pencil artists are very hard to find here, so I watch your video's all the time. I am so enjoying watching the video's of the live stream. Ann Traverse
Your work is seriously magical. Wow
Simply stunning - I particularly like the water (obviously I love the flamingo!)
Wonderful work could watch you all day thankyou
Gosh the color on the flamingo is just breath taking😍😍😍💖 its so gorgeous
Thank you :D
Excellent video! Love this flamlingo!
thats a beautiful drawing. wow, love the colors and everything 😍😍
Stunning as always
I looooooove this work if yours! It should be my favourite yet❤️
Great video Lisa! 😁 The piece came out beautifully.
Omg ,you are talanted, look like real, good work 😊
beautiful piece as usual.
Awesome colours. thank you very much for your explanations
thanks Lachri, so much informative stuff. and the end product looks real great, especially with touch-up texture and titanium white. I use it myself and just preparing to do my first portrait with Alyona products.
So beautiful!
How I enjoy watching your videos 💐 thanks a lot for sharing all this beauty
Amaazing Lisa (as always) Like you said, only practise makes you improve. Thanks so much for your tips. I want to let you know that I love your livestreams, every time Im drawing or painting I load one of them. Lots of love!!!
Beautiful as always Lisa, please take care of yourself, praying for you🙏❤️
Amazing work!!!
Magnifique !
You are the best teacher ever! I have watched so many of your videos. In one you recommended a white colored pencil for the sandpaper. Please remind me of the pencil brand as I have forgotten in which video you explored that.
Wonderful video. I'm working on a pair of flamingoes now and she that I need to change some things and buy some fixative and powder blender.
It is looking 3D 👌👍👌
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻 no words
Awesome!!!
Lisa, how do you deal with the nerves before starting a new painting? I'm working on three concentrations that tie into each other, and I've done all my research but it's rough. Getting started, actually started with the paint (oil on canvas) really stops me from comfortably getting started.
Girrrrl you're costing me a lot of $$$...bought OMS, a full set of polychromos (I have a large set of Prismacolors too), now just bought texture fixative and touch-up texture/titanium white... 🤣 It's a good thing, though..I was getting "stuck" on some things and am eager to try the texture fixative, etc. Loving the polychromos. Hoping your back feels better! Thank you for the videos, they are so informative!
Do you put the colored pencil blender underneath, or only on top?
can any other workable fixative be used for powder blender if textured fixative is not available?
Thank you Lisa! ❤️. Have you tried Caran d'ache Museum Aquarelles?! I finally bought them and could not imagine that they could be as good as they are. Would love to see what your thoughts on them are!
Cara Thank you for a wonderful demo of a brand new (to me) method. I bought the whole kit, followed your instructions and have finished my picture. Now I have questions about the final fixative spray. Does it waterproof and protect my work so that I do not need a glass and can just put it into a frame? If not, how do I attach a mat to the heavy sand paper board? And on my card under medium, do I "put "polychromo colored pencil onProArt Board"? Help!
Beautiful, Lisa! Hope you are feeling better. What kind of brush do you use to apply the titanium white at the end?
Lisa, I am so excited to have found your site. I have been doing colored pencil for years sometimes using OMS. I have ordered the oil based pencils and the powder blender kit. Can't find the Fisher 400 Sanded Paper Premounted. Where do you order yours? In my "impulse purchase" pile I found an Ampersand pastel board and a textured clay board. Would either work? Cara
Is there another way of applying the gesso without using an airbrush?? And would I need to buy all the supplies that are listed on the website for my first time using it??? Such an amazing work!!!
You can paint it on but you can end up with uneven brush strokes that way. It's much easier to just buy some sanded paper. The uArt 500 is pretty good and not too expensive if you're looking for lower cost alternatives :)
Question... I just ordered the powder blender as it looks like it has an awesome effect! You mention using sanded paper or gessoing paper as it needs a non-absorbent surface. I have gessoed mdf panels already. Would these work just as well with the powder blender? It would be non absorbent, but perhaps would it be too hard a surface compared to gessoed paper?
Awesome! Get better soon!
It is Beautiful!!❤️ Want to know every product you use properly!
with the texture fixative does it matter if you spray over the paper you haven't drawn/coloured on yet. I see you spray often over your drawing but I worry about the paper not drawn on. Lovely piece Lisa
Nope, it doesn't matter at all :)
getting ready to buy a colored pencil set and i ran across an old video of your's ...prismacolor vs faber castell, really glad i did, that made up my mind, if yer gonna spend some money on a product the least they could do is check their quality before it leave's the shop. anyway, thanks for the tip's, and your work is beautiful
Hi Lisa, I have a question. In your opinion, would Grumbacher workable fixative work in place of the texture fixative from brush and pencil? I just cannot afford the $18 plus $14 shipping to get the brand you recommend in the video. I want your honest opinion though, even if it's gonna cost me more. Thanks for all you do.
I bet Albert would love this 💯💯😂
love your work! I noticed you used 3 different colored pencil brands, how bout a video on the different characteristics of each, and why you use each. Just an idea.
What is the sheet you place over the picture while you adding the pencils and powder
where do you get the kits
Do you prefer Odourless Mineral Spirits or powder blender?
Sweeney stainpain H84U Ummm... No. She uses odourless minerals spirits and the powder blender for two different things, because they achieve two different things. If she had started off the drawing using odorless mineral spirits and then changed to powder blender would that then mean by your logic that she preferred the powder blender?
This is amazing, bravo..! I was watching some older videos of yours and I realised you've never gone to art school, is this right?
I would like to ask you how do you do the outline of your drawing? And thanks for such good advices
Tanvir Kaur Dhillon She usually draws the subject on a separate paper and the transfers it to the canvas/paper
mackybarr thanks, I'm doing a drawing like that and I'm new in this kind of stuff
Tanvir Kaur Dhillon If you are in doubt about what to choose it could help you to Google examples of the mediums you have in mind, so you have an idea of the effect that can be achieved with said mediums (and how much detail you can add with each)
mackybarr thanks for such great information
You can either freehand or use the grid method if it is paper that you are drawing on. If it is canvas, use transfer paper or a projector to project the reference pic onto the canvas. 😊👍🏻
Hi Lisa, I saw another demo where you talked about not using this method on normal paper, only on sanded board or gessoed paper. But I would like to know, does the textured spray work on normal paper? in general, how does these products work on oil pencils vs wax pencils? Getting hold of the products in Europe is impossible because of the spraycans that can't be sent by air mail. Can't get sanded paper here or prismacolor pencils either Wish they would sell it in pump atomizers whitch would eliminate that problem.
you can order prismacolors on amazon. I did, and I live in Germany.
And Boesner (German art supply store, also on the internet) sells sanded paper.
Thanks! But my question to Lisa still stands..
Apparently, Lisa is in hospital at present, so she can't reply.
She says that the powder blender works well on oil based pencils like the Polychromos, not so well on wax-based ones like Luminance. The texture spray should work on them all. HTH
thanks, best wishes on a speedy recovery to Lisa!
Lisa your video are the best i hope to get off the ground soon.
ummm why do we have the same dried white and red roses (in your studio)?? weird. cool painting :)
This was really cool. I may have thought you were crazy with the colors in the live stream... How often fo you trace for your drawings/paintings?
Ampersand pastelbord from dickblick also works great for this technique - it's a sanded board.
how do i know what medium i use for an idea that i have? do I just pick one that I feel like?
Adriaan van Pijkeren It would depend on how comfortable you are with a medium, the end result you want, and the subject (if you are using references)
I love it, it's beautiful...
Adriaan van Pijkeren If you like paints. Use paints. If like them to dry faster then use Acrylics. If you don't want them to dry faster and want to do a lot of blending use, oils.
If you holding pencils and love working for a looong time, by making several layers and blending them. Use colour pencils. Also watch video on how to use each medium on youtube. Lisa might have them as well. Finally make a decision and buy a small set if your preferred medium. Use it 😊 And when you can buy another medium to try again.Hope it helped👍🏻
WOW do you think you could do a tutorial on water surfaces? This is soooo cool but it's too fast to get what you're doing. If you could it would be very helpfull!
This is great lisa, im learing a lot from your videos, though it seems like the best stuff is not availebal in my country (powder blender) -my life in a nutshell ;)
can you do another portrait?? pweeze
You are very talented however and I mean this is the best way possible, I feel like a lot of artists on here aren't taking the time to do real time teaching of the PROCESS of how they get these amazing works rather more of a showing off of their skills in a sped up manner. I watch to learn things and as soon as I see it's going to be a sped up version I end the video. I think it would be more beneficial to viewers if you were to show your techniques in real time, don't edit out your mistakes being made, show and name ALL colors ur using and how ur applying them, how your blending, when you switch mediums ect... I don't know about anyone else but I want to see a real time painting video where it's right up to the canvas so we can see every detail even if it takes several videos to do one painting rather than seeing a lightening fast sped up version. I absolutely love your work and would love to see more in depth teaching I guess is what I'm trying to say!
She does that on patreon
Cannot find power blender
Is everything ok?
Has anyone noticed colored pencils fading using sandpaper and textured fixative like she is here? The next day or even hours later, colors are lighter and look grittier. Any ideas? I’m SO bewildered.
Is here a reference photo? and hope your better...
Do see my new art - Pirates of the Caribbean . . . . . Thanks :)
Drawing with Noel draw Captain Jack
speak slower please
Listen faster please ;)
You can decrease the speed of the video in the settings
Corvus Corone Oh! Shots fired!
yes it`s posible to decrease the video but not the sound
Angela Equd I know, but if you can't understand what she is saying it might help anyway. Or try using subtitles. ;)
what I guess I'm saying is: she isn't going to speak slower, Lisa is always in speedy Gonzales mode.