What a pleasure to paint today. I had a box of clean and organized pastels to work with. It was very satisfying even though I dreaded the cleanup process. I had so much dread that I put off cleaning my pastels for 3 years! As a result I was painting with small bits and pieces of pastels even though I had replacements in boxes....somewhere! It was time to get organized!
I am sharing some photos of the clean up process but I made a video while cleaning. You can see the video on my YouTube channel here.
https://youtu.be/5ytNrP6l1i4 Be sure to like and follow :)
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| The finished box. |
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| A box of Nupastels and a rolling cart of extra pastels. The overflow! |
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All my extra Terry Ludwig pastels from sets I had broken up.
I still keep special TL sets in their original boxes and use them separately. |
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| Work in progress. I am emptying the big studio box |
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I pulled out the smaller pieces of pastel.
I will use them for smaller paintings. |
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| Three years of daily painting leads to small pastels! |
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Even smaller bits went into these containers.
I will make pastels with these bits soon. |
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| All clean! |
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My Heilman box collection (some given to me and some awarded.)
I still need to go through these boxes and clean the plain air /workshop pastels. |
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| I used cornmeal to clean the pastels. This is the cornmeal at the end of the clean up. |
I hope you enjoyed the look at the pastel clean up. Let me know if you have any questions after you watch the video!
Painting notes: Painted on Pastelmat with my clean pastels! (Terry Ludwig and Diane Townsend)
I loved this video. The overflow drawers on rollers is really interesting - what brand? Where did you buy it? Just in case I get far enough along in my collection . . .
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathy! I got it at Costco several years ago but I have see them in Office supply stores and craft stores such as Michaels.
ReplyDeleteJust rewatched this and plan to clean and organize my pastels and organize my studio while I am cooped up at home! And paint some, too!
ReplyDeleteI am cleaning and organizing as well. I have the large Dakota box and am struggling to determine which pastels to include in it as my working box
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I cover this extensively on my Patreon Page. The short answer is I use the color wheel and make sure I have 3 values of each color and a variety of pure colors and neutral/grayed color.
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