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Introduction to Soft Pastels, with Rebecca de Mendonça
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Getting StartedWhy use pastels?
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Is it drawing or painting?
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What is pastel?
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How many pastels do I need?
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What surface should I work on?
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Your WorkspaceYour Workspace
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Is it very dusty?
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Protecting and storing your work
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Cleaning your pastels
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Making Marks and Getting InspiredLimbering up
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Broad energetic strokes
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Smudging and Softening
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Hatching
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Twisting and turning
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Combining techniques
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To FinishAbout Rebecca
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Protecting and storing your work
Pastel drawings and paintings are vulnerable to being damaged. You can spray them with fixative, although many artists prefer not to. The important thing is to cover them, either with a sheet of paper, cellophane or glassine paper, but also to fix it in place along one edge. This means that every time you lift the protective sheet to look at them, it will go back in the same place.