tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post62691118509217213..comments2023-10-30T13:27:44.690-04:00Comments on Painting My World: A System for Storing Finished PastelsKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17239336384191511625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post-46844536924525489832015-12-09T00:48:56.723-05:002015-12-09T00:48:56.723-05:00Wow! I knew it! You'd find pastels! That rocks...Wow! I knew it! You'd find pastels! That rocks! Can't wait for the post when you sort those. That's so beautiful!<br /><br />I normally rave about your art, it's always so wonderful and your little food paintings are no exception. Those shore candies are a delight, that one's a great little abstract in yummy colors and flavors. I'll bet the buyer can taste them at a glance. Hershey's Kisses ROCK with the metallic pastel on the wrappers. Love how you used silver in different values to get shiny crumpled foil just perfect. <br /><br />One small critique suggestion - the Kiss that points up at the top of the painting is kissing the top of the painting with its paper tag. If you either shorten it about 1/8" to leave some red background OR just swipe with the "white" pastel of thet paper tag so it loops up and then down, goes out of the painting before coming back in, then the Kiss won't be Kissing and the composition work. If it's put in a six inch frame, the problem will vanish under the mat edge, so matting it would also solve the problem. That may make it a non-issue and explain why you didn't fix it too.<br /><br />Ah, the cost of Clear Bags. I got the Mountex Shrink Wrapper Kit instead - $252 investment but like getting a mat cutter, the cost goes down over the long run because bulk rolls of museum shrink wrap are a lot cheaper than comparable numbers of Clear Bags in Assorted Sizes. Includes everything, sealer, heat gun, roll rack, 100 foot roll of shrink wrap. That can be done to size and the cut off pieces sealed again to turn them into bags slide smaller art into seal again and trim, etc. like cutting mats.<br /><br />Then, you'll laugh, I bought Clear Bags anyway when after two years I realzed I cold not work out a place to use it without a large table. Now I'm moving back to Arkansas, I will have that out on a long table with my mat cutter ready to go whenever I want - and a lot of my finished smaller works will just get matted and packed as I do them, in manageable batches. I might leave longish tops open and unsealed till sale though, so that I can get into them if I see changes I want to make while it's still unsold.<br /><br />I also took your suggestion of those Itoya Profolios and am merrily filling a 9" x 12" one, an 8" x 10" one and a 5" x 7" deluxe one plus now an 8 1/2" x 11" one that my neighbor gave me along with the oil painting stuff. I love that, it's so easy to let people flip through what I've done recently. Minis go in Top Loaders regardless of medium and stacked in the cardboard tray the Top Loaders came in. Until I get home where I've got my albums. It'll be nice to have all the minis I bought years ago at hand again too!<br /><br />Though yours will be framed, that's wall art. I still need to cut that fancy little mat arrangement and float it with a tab of archival tape on the back.robertsloan2arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02598847116529877475noreply@blogger.com