Unlike other painting mediums, pastels will never set or dry. Just be careful that the plastic or wooden shaft of the cotton bud doesn't scrape into the paper surface and damage it. It can be washed once it's soiled and will be as good as new.
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You can often create blenders from materials readily available in most households.įor example, you can use most types of unwanted cloth wrapped around your finger to blend, with materials such as cotton, synthetic or wool giving slightly different effects.Ī piece of soft, chamois leather - the sort for cleaning windows or the car - is even better, especially for sweeping across large areas of colour. Then you can tap the work periodically so the excess dust drops into it, for easy disposal. If you're working upright on an easel, create a small tray out of thick tinfoil or similar a little wider than your board, then tape it to the bottom. Instead, lift up your work from time to time, if it's lying flat and gently brush or tap the excess pastel dust on to a larger piece of scrap paper under your working paper. Otherwise, the dust ends up lying on every surface and of course, if it lands on the floor where you're standing, it's guaranteed to visit every room in the house! Increasingly, however, as the hazards of airborne dust become better understood, I'd advise against this, wherever you're working - and especially in a room of your home. Different colours, eg: ivory and grey, denote how soft or hard the rubber will be. Looks like a paintbrush but has a rubber tip, available in various sizes and shapes. However, you can also sharpen them in a pencil sharpener, so that mechanical sharpener will be useful with your pastel work after all! 3. You can unravel layers of paper to ‘clean’ the stump, which can be a little inconvenient. A blending stump or tortillonĬheap and give you more precision than your little finger - and less discomfort! So, if this concerns you, try wearing a pair of surgical or latex gloves, with a little talc or baby powder on the fingertips, to create a more acceptable blending tool than your bare fingers. In addition and inevitably, some pastels have chemicals in the pigments that can be ingested through the skin. However many artists find that blending with their fingers becomes uncomfortable, especially over a long period of time. These are quick, easy and effective (don’t worry about grease unless you’re simultaneously eating a bag of potato chips).
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