Hi, dear.

If you don't know, I'm at the marina in St. Croix where many fishermen launch their boats to go to work.

It's the Altona Lagoon.

Personally, I love places like this.

I mean, look at it.

All the elements are there.

You had the sea, the sky, the sand.

This is the perfect place for an artist to find inspiration.

How about we take some of these elements and put it together to create a masterpiece?

Are you interested?

Are you up for the challenge and meet us back at the studio?

Because it's painting with pastel time?

Hello, friends, and welcome back to our show.

Painting with pastels.

I am Frantz Coulanges.

Welcome to our studio.

And we have our toys here or pastel box?

And it is so nice when you start a journey and you don't know exactly where you're going to end up, right?

Well, today we are going to paint a sea scene again.

We are surrounded by ocean and it is so beautiful, so peaceful when you're looking at everything and you just want to put it on paper.

We going to do just that today.

And we have a selection of colors here.

Where do we start?

Well, I will start with my blue for the ocean again.

Let's see here will be my line.

Now, once you've made this line here, you have so much that you can do.

What am I going to put here?

What am I going to put down?

Well, again, your imagination can take you wherever you want.

We just kind of start here.

It's.

I am leaving some of the spaces, as you can see, for the clouds.

And again, nothing is set fully yet.

The idea is to be free.

Okay, I am free.

I want to go wherever I want to go.

So I have my blue.

I will add my clouds using the side of the pastel.

Here.

And as I come up on top, I am adding more and more.

So my clouds start small at the horizon.

Again, try to add a little perspective to everything that you are doing.

As I move closer up.

These are closer to me and these are farther away from me.

So they are smaller here and a lot bigger here, right?

But again, nothing is set yet.

I want to be free.

I want to go wherever I want to go.

So this is where I will start my ocean right here.

Okay.

And again, I'm just applying blue.

No commitment.

You don't have to be afraid.

Just applying.

And, friends.

The idea for this show is to show you that you don't have to be afraid even of colors.

Because whatever you do here, you can add to it or you can undo it.

So don't be afraid.

You can just add to it here.

Now I have room that I can add whatever I want here.

So I'm leaving this here because I don't want to commit too much to the bottom here, and I will take mine the black right here.

And I want.

So this mountain peak, it's like right next to the ocean.

And it went all the way up.

I think I was on a trip to the valleys by boat, and this house was right on top of this hill overlooking the ocean.

And I thought, what a beautiful spot.

So right there can be just that.

And again, the mystery is still there because we don't know exactly where we're going to end up.

We just leaving that like that.

So now that we have that, we are going to add some of the dark brown at the base right there, because you'll notice right before the rock meets the ocean, whatever, if it's like the green of the trees that's on top, we have the rocks that's showing there from the tip.

So we leave that like that and we'll come back to it later.

Of course, there's no rush.

We have time.

We'll just leave that just like that.

Now for the France.

What am I going to put there?

Well, let's see if we put the sand on the beach here.

There's so much that we'll be able to do with it.

You'll notice today the piece of paper that I'm using is quite large.

Well, there's so much that you can do with that, because once you have a piece of paper this size, you can do a full painting on it.

You can make a circle and choose a section of it where you're going to have the painting be central right in the middle.

But here I am using the full page because I want to go big today.

I want to think big.

I want to feel big.

So that's what we're doing.

And again, we have this sugar sand here.

I'm adding a little yellow to the peach that was underneath and a little white on top of it.

There we go.

And the fun is in the blending, so we're not there yet, which is going to take a lot time.

Okay.

Now we have some clouds and I'm going to do something unusual today.

See, I'm going to add a little purple to the clouds just to show you there is nothing to be afraid of here.

Nothing to be afraid of.

Okay.

Touch up my blues a little bit more and I'm going to start blending.

Now I'm going to start with my clouds.

Remember, we don't blend it flatly.

We blend circular motion so that all clouds can show.

And I'm leaving the purple at the bottom because we can mix that afterwards.

But I'm really interested in the white part on the top.

That's the part that I am blending right now.

And then I'll get back to everything else before my fingers get really dirty.

Now, something else you could do.

You could just blend your blues first and then add the whites afterwards.

But again, we're feeling free today.

We just blending and blending my blues.

And again, if you touch the clouds that you did, that's fine, because we're going to go over them.

We can always go over them afterwards.

And once we do that, it will be, again, your puffy clouds the way that you wanted it to be without touching the bottom part of the blue or the horizon line, blending the sky, the friendly skies.

So now that it is completed, I am going back to my clouds, the purple parts at the bottom, and I'm blending them in same way.

Added the top parts.

Nice little circular motion.

Do you want to give it texture?

Shouldn't that be a flat image at all?

Whenever you're looking at it, you should see the dimensions jumping at you, coming to you nice and easy.

Everything can come together.

There's no fear of muddying it out because we are keeping it light.

Okay.

See, now that it's like that, what I can do, I can go back with the whites on top.

See that?

Because I want the separation to be evident.

Just like that.

And even in applying it, I'm not just putting it flat on the board the same way I was blending it.

That's the way that I am adding it as well.

So now I'm just going to go back and touch it up again.

Just like that.

You can almost see it complete it.

The clouds are reaching higher and higher.

There we go.

Great.

Now you see the nice effect that adding the purple at the bottom gave us.

You don't really have just that those two colors up there.

But you have a third that blends in nicely and complements everything else.

Perfect.

Now that the time is moving up on us, we can go back to this great.

And I love the touch of the green from the ocean.

Yeah, occasionally you see that nice light green across the water.

You don't want it to be just that one blue.

Just add your textures.

And remember, since we're doing the horizon line, I'm just pushing my finger from one end and we going to run it across by pushing really hard on it.

Just like that.

There we go.

Now I'm just going back again since I'm just blending, just.

There we go.

Okay.

We'll take care of the beach and the sand afterwards.

But I want to take care of this later.

The tip of this island here first.

Now, while respecting the land that's underneath it, I am blending that brown earth tone that I have underneath.

And then, of course, on top we have the greenery.

So just doing the background just like that.

And I am going to use my green, the tip of the pastel, just pushing it against the paper, just like when we were doing the leaves.

And again, whether you have an easel or you're using the wall of your house to paint this, once your paper is secure, you are all set.

You don't want it to look like it's a flat just like this.

You really want to show texture and everything that's you're doing.

Because once you're done with these, you can go back with your fingers.

And again, once you do that, you can just twist to show, okay, there are some trees on a distance from a distance.

I'm just twisting with my fingers, not just blending all it all in one together because you want to show there are several trees that occupy this island now.

Don't want to do just one flat surface.

Then there we go and are going again.

It's up to you if you want to add texture to it.

Just like this, just show where the light is reflecting on them.

We can do that.

Now we surely want to blend our sand right here just once we've done blending our sand and it's okay because we have the texture that we can add some of the waves on it before we do that.

Right at the rock, right here.

I'm sure that when the ocean crashes against the rocks here, we have some of the waves showing and it's beautiful when you have this type of chaos in your painting.

We're going to do some waves right here and using the side of the pastel stick, I'm just pressing it intermittently over the paper just to create that feeling here.

Now, once we've done with that, I can just brush some gently over the sand because they don't crash over the sand.

He just embraces it and flow over it nice and light.

Great.

Now we are almost done here.

We need to add some interesting things right here.

So since we have the time, we can have.

Well, let's just see a nice little boat.

Me?

See if I put a boat right here.

Okay.

I think this would do fine right here.

I'll put a boat right here that's going to go right on this sand right here like that.

Okay.

This will be my boat here.

Okay, let's see.

I want my wood color.

And again, don't be afraid.

Whatever you do, you can undo that.

See, I'm pushing my hand against the surface.

There we go.

I want to show that this boat is made out of wood sitting on the sand.

There we go.

Okay.

It's.

That's the inside of it.

I want that to be separate from the rest.

So of course, we will need to add some shadows.

So that's not mistaken with the background, the waves that's in the water there.

And then I'll add some shadows right here like this.

Just shadows shows where you're painting is sitting.

So what are you doing?

A fruit or whatever you're doing on a table.

Once you do your shadows, then that makes a difference.

Now we have most of our painting done here.

We could add some dark clouds on here.

It's great.

There we go.

It's now we'll just.

When we signing our name, we can sign a name on the boat to make it complete.

So I'll just sign my name right here.

That makes it officially my boat.

There we go.

Are you happy friends?

Well, I'm happy with my show.

How simple it is to create a full painting in less than 30 minutes.

See us next time as we take on the next challenge.

If you're out.

Funding for this program is provided in part by the Virgin Islands Council of the Arts.