| I'm totally lovin' on PanPastels |
[Jul. 6th, 2008|09:43 pm] |
I'm such an easy sell sometimes. Seriously! All it took was 5 seconds of wiping a little sponge on some scrap paper and I walked out of the art store by my work bus stop a little poorer. Well, actually a lot more poorer. I need more pastels like I need a hole in the head, but trust me, these aren't ordinary pastels. Trust me!
For starters, they come compressed in little cakes, each protected in its own plastic pan. No worries about two colours rubbing up against each other and contaminating the colour, or sticks breaking. They are extremely low dust, which makes them very clean. Applying them is a dream because all you have to do is load up the sponge brush and work away. Colours go on thicker, smoother, richer. In all my years of using pastels, I have never had such consistent and rich results. They can be used with other mediums too, and as soon as I transfer a sketch to my background, I'll have a little ACEO to show off.
I bought the "landscape colours" pack, which came with 20 colours and a variety of sponges and seven storage jars. The art store didn't have individual colours, although they did have some smallers sets of like colours. They are such a specialty item that buying from online retailers seems a good choice. |
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