How To Paint Lights That Glow in Soft Pastel - Painting Tutorial
Channel: Monet Cafe' with Artist Susan Jenkins
Date: 2022-07-20

How to Paint Lights that Glow in Soft Pastel -

Shimmering lights seems to fill our eyes with fascination. And while it may seem that this subject matter is difficult to paint, there is actually a pretty simple technique that can be used with soft pastel to capture the brilliance and beauty of lights that twinkle and shine.

My reference image was of a sky at dusk while on a road trip. The tail lights in front of me and oncoming car lights were exciting focal point elements. I wanted to create them as glowing and brilliant. 

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EASY Technique for Glowing Lights:
See Technique at 03:36
The video demonstration will be the easiest way to understand this, but here is the general principle
1. Use 3 Values (similar to color of lights in your scene)
2. Layer the values from darkest to lightest with a light touch
3. Reduce the size of each value as you add them

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