EXp

Pastel on Bristol, A3. Trying to work out which is best, this or the wallpaper. Once the wallpaper gets a coat of pastel and fixative the fibres tend to be raised and the pastel likes that surface whereas the Bristol tends to be too smooth. Again photrographed which is why it is fuzzy. Also part of the experiment was using the Russian sauce pastels in the middle section and painting them wet to start with, the red in that section is normal pastel. Also tried using black around edges. There is no coherent picture here its really one shape leads into the next, the object is to see what the medium does by mixing, wet/dry etc, really interesting. Will strat to add more colours to see what happens between the Russian sauce and normal pastel.