Pan Pastels & Colored Pencil mixed media tips - Lachri

See how easy it is to combine Pan Pastels and Colored Pencil for realistic and softly blended paintings or drawings! The pan pastels are not as messy as regular pastels which is perfect if you hate the dry chalky feel of pastels as I always have!

The Pan Pastels I'm using in this video were provided to me by Pan Pastel. The opinions in this video are my own, this is not otherwise a paid sponsorship/promotion.

Supplies used: (amazon affiliate links)


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A channel for artists from a professional artist. Get motivation, art lessons art tips in painting in acrylics or oil paints, drawing, colored pencil, graphite, & Inktense, Art Marketing tips (learn to sell your own work) from Lisa of Lachri Fine Art.

I have videos that cover pricing your artwork, what art supplies I recommend, how to use Inktense pencils and blocks to paint, how to paint in acrylics or oil paints, how to draw realistic animals and more!

[SaraMakesArt]

I love how you painted his fur. I can relate to what you said about using different colors. I remember painting a gray squirrel and I thought I saw purple in his fur. At first, I was like, I can' put purple in a gray animal. That'll look silly. But I did it anyway. I kept it very soft and translucent and it looked good.

[deejay]

Gorgeous, Lisa!! Love your Colour Pencil Tutorials! I have learnt so much...and its not because of clumps and clusters....its " make sure your Lights are light enough, and your Darks are dark enough". . So glad you say that EVERY time!!👌👌💗💗

[paintninspireneelart]

Watching you use Pan Pastels makes me want to buy them. They look like so much fun to work with. 😄 I love how the drawing looks, Polar Bears are one of my favorite animals. Great video.

[leroyfrazier]

I love the zoomed in portion of you working on your subject the detail is amazing.

[bozomahoney]

And you answered another one of my questions at the 5-minute mark when you spoke about the fixative!. You are amazing !

[WildPortraitArtist]

Oh my goooosh I love how pan pastels look when combined with coloured pencils on sanded paper! I really need to get around to trying this some time.

[alexka]

WoW 😲 you draw so realistically .The bird seemed alive and moving.Master drawing skills needed to get such a lifelike effect.🎨

[bozomahoney]

Finally!!! You answered my questions in the first 3 minutes!! You showed me how to pick up the pastel from the pan and blend it. :)

[justinesmith]

Thank you for another great tutorial Lisa. Can't wait to try Pan Pastels....

[PastelArtwithRitaGinsberg]

I absolutely love watching your techniques and demonstrations of blending Pan Pastels! I am looking forward to buying a set to try, following your instructions. I hope I can achieve the same results. Thank you for an amazing video.

[vickie]

This is so helpful. I always have trouble getting colored pencil to show up well over pan pastels. Now I see it may be because I was not spraying fixative over the pastel. Thanks!

[cathysparks]

I have a small set of pan pastels coming this week. I asked on a Facebook group for pan pastels about using a spray fixative and some relied to Not use a fixative at all. A few mentioned the spectrafix. If I like the pan pastels enough to get more colors I’ll order the spectrafix then. I already have pastel mat and vellum Bristol board. We’ll see what happens. I think I’ll like the pan pastels. Very good video. I’m an avid viewer of yours. The videos are very helpful.

[TK-gybb]

Great! A new Video with white fur.
Today i worked on an old Project i started 3 years ago. Your videos are a wonderful Motivation Lisa. Thank you so much.
Next Project will be a new dalmatian Portrait. ;)

[EifosArt]

I love this piece 😍 Your videos are always so informative and thorough, makes me happy everytime 😋 I haven't tried combining pan pastel and colored pencils like that, only tried using pan pastels for the backgrounds, I might just have to try it out 😃 I always struggle with sanded paper, as I dont like the gritty look, I hadn't thought about blending with my finger or a sofft tool, so that's something I definitely have to try out! 😃

[abigailgonzalez]

Thanks for Explaining & Sharing‼️ This’s my Favorite tutorials😍😍U do 👍🏼 I do color pencils a lot, so I missed these videos U do‼️‼️U do the live ones, 1, 1/2 hrs & I Love these more! Not as long. I Hope 🤞🏼 U can do more of these shorter video of colors pencils! This’s why I subscribed- to see you actually draw & color! Thanks👏🏼👏🏼 😍 Great job it’s Adorable👌🏼👌🏼😊

[KirstyRebeccaFineArt]

Thanks for your tips, I've always wondered if you can use spectra fix between layers, I've always thought it was just for the final layer! Also it's nice to know that you can use the brush and pencil products with pastels as the base 😊

[Mamounalaframboiz]

Gorgeous ! Would you prefer polychromos instead of pastel pencils ? and is there a reason why ? (sorry for my english !) Thank you Lisa

[artbyconniedawn]

Absolutely love all your tutorials Lisa and I love listening to your pencil podcasts too. I love my new pan Pastels but I also love using my polychromos with zest it pencil blend for a more painterly look. I wonder if it is possible to use my polychromo pencils over the top of my pan pastels and still be able to blend with OMS. I also have spectra fix so I was thinking I could do the pan pastel and a painting spray with spectra fix and then apply my polychromos and blend with OMS . I guess the only thing to do would be to try it, I thought I would ask you in case you have tried it already. I use clairefontaine pastel mat as my support. Thanks for all your hard work producing great tutorials.

[CautionArtistatPlay]

Wow, I think this is the soonest I have been to comment on a video! Love this piece!

[debbiesandoval]

Please do more Pan Pastels! I love Trees!