Unison Pastels are dissoluble in water! I didn’t know that before tonight. The yearning to play with the goooooood pastels was my Saturday night delight. I had a lonely set of an initiate level “Starter Colors 120 piece set”. Pulled it from inside the closet and revealed the lovely half sticks.
Resting in the black foam placement holders, these babies are clean!
I went French for paper: “Ingres” creme laid paper…some bite in tooth….with thin waxed paper ‘tween.
But my brushes were calling me too and I didn’t know what to say to them….so I tried to bring them in. First I made sure I had clean water in my container and then splashed the water around the first rung and it flowed! Yi Yi Yi…and hip hip hurray!!!! My very excellentest brand of fine artist pastels are able to be painted. That means they have very little pigment binder. Most excellent pastels are built like this into small cigar rolls. I didn’t know they melted in the universal solvent. This expands my use of them. Painting in a ‘painterly style’ in a robust manner is what I did large canvas; now I can cake the walk in unison.
Very engaging. Love it.