Bartc
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Jackson's has a sale on pan pastels. I can paint quite well with brushes in various media, but in the past couple of years I've switched to soft pastels, the sticks. I have never tried the pan pastels. They look to me like my wife's makeup and seem to use similar tools, so I'm guessing they have similar consistencies, etc.
What I love about other media that is not easy to do with pastel sticks is truly mixing colors, thus necessitating many expensive pastel stick colors. I'm assuming from what I read that pan pastels can be successfully mixed from primaries the same way I would with other media (acrylic, oil, watercolor, etc.) Is that truly so? That would be a blessing to my budget.
Have any of you tried mixing pan and stick soft pastels in the same painting? I'm assuming you can go over pan with stick successfully, but wonder if you can successfully use the pan over stick pastels.
Can anybody share any direct experience here? Thanks.
What I love about other media that is not easy to do with pastel sticks is truly mixing colors, thus necessitating many expensive pastel stick colors. I'm assuming from what I read that pan pastels can be successfully mixed from primaries the same way I would with other media (acrylic, oil, watercolor, etc.) Is that truly so? That would be a blessing to my budget.
Have any of you tried mixing pan and stick soft pastels in the same painting? I'm assuming you can go over pan with stick successfully, but wonder if you can successfully use the pan over stick pastels.
Can anybody share any direct experience here? Thanks.