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Daniel Keys

Daniel Keys

Self-taught American oil and pastel painter (Daniel J. Keys, b. 1985, Fresno, CA) known for still lifes and winner of the PleinAir Salon Grand Prize.

Sep 1, 2026

18:21
Stick [laughs]
18:22
Yeah, really.
18:24
It, that was one of the most frustrating things in the, the beginning, um, stages of, uh, working with pastel.
18:33
I just felt like I was wasting so much time.
18:36
And so, uh, I don't feel like that now, I, I don't think.
18:42
Um, but I put all my...
18:44
I try to organize the pastels, of course, by color, but one of the things, uh, that has helped, um, y- you know, s- I, I've seen peop- I haven't, I don't think I've done this, but I've seen people do it, um, where they would take pictures of their palette and then conver- they would desaturate them so that they're in black and white so that they could organize also by value.
20:40
You need to be doing it this way"?

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