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Summary: Learn how to paint over pastel fixative to finish painting still life objects in this free video.
Dan'L Terry is a nationally award-winning artist/designer. His art has been exhibited in national juried shows and museums, on the covers of books and magazines, and in feature films,...read more
"Now, that red before we put the fixative on it wouldn't show through the green. The green was too dark. Now, that we've put some fixative on there watch how it now picks up some more of the ability for it to be lightened. I'm using a little bit of pink in there as well to help establish a brighter and more precise shape. Let's go ahead and some of these other flowers. There's a group there that takes a shape almost like a bow that runs from about here. There's one of them. There's another one that's in here. There's another one that grows out of the top of that. There's another group that's large. Again, it's an oval oblong oval shape. There's another one that takes on a shape about like that, as I see it. There's another one that hangs down. Then, there's one toward the there's one group toward the back. And, those are the ones that I see. There's some more over here. But, they're not reddish. They're all greens. They haven't completely budded out. So, there's the establishment of the flowers in our foliage."