Pastel auxiliairies
Pastel auxiliairies

Pastel auxiliaries

Protect your work with our pastel auxiliaries, including pastel fixative in a spray can for pastels, charcoal and graphite and oil pastel varnish.

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Pastel auxiliaries

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Talens Protection Pastel Fixative
Talens

Protection Pastel Fixative

Talens Protection Pastel varnish
Talens

Protection Pastel varnish

About Pastel auxiliaries

Should an artwork with soft pastel or pastel pencil be fixed?

One of the specific characteristics of a pastel painting is its velvety appearance. Fixing the painting will change this appearance, depending on the amount of fixative. If too much fixative is applied, the colours darken from one moment to the next and even then the painting is not smudge-proof. For the sake of specific appearance, there are painters who do not fixate their work at all and therefore accept vulnerability. A safe way is to lightly fixate each layer of applied pastel in between with Talens concentrated fixative 064. Depending on requirements, the last layer can either not be fixed or also lightly fixed. There are also painters who do varnish their work heavily, taking into account the darkening of the colours. This, of course, requires experience.

Can a work of art with oil pastel be varnished?

A work of art with oil pastels can be varnished with Varnish for oil pastels 060. This water-based varnish is milky white in the bottle, but dries colourless and transparent within an hour and makes the work smudge-proof and water-repellent. The varnish hardly affects the colour and gives a satin gloss after drying.