New Pastel

"Sun Bee"

pastel on Canson pastel board

8" x 10"

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Have been trying this pastel board made by Canson (it's not new, but I have 

a big pile of it to use).  I love their Mi-Tientes paper!

However, I use the wrong side of the paper, 

the side without much

'tooth' - the thing you need in a pastel surface to pull off the pastel and make it sit down

on the that surface.  Pastel hardly ever works on a slick, smooth surface.

This board utilizes the tooth that is found on the right side of that

familiar paper - a little too much tooth for me.

If you click on the photo, you will see what I 

am talking about.

I know that a surface definitely shows it's done in pastel

by virtue of seeing some of the tooth, but

I don't like that look. That's why anymore, I prefer

sanded pastel paper or board.

So I scumbled and scumbled this painting.

It had to come to an end.

I was even using a brush with

Gamsol on it, to brush the 

pastel down into the teeth

but still didn't achieve what I was after.

Live and learn - maybe I will use all that board

for trying colors and mixing colors up against

each other...my 'try it' board.