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RE: Drawing with chalk II
Thank you very much Stef for your kind comment.
There is fixative aerosol for drawings, suitable for charcoal, chalk or pastels.
To frame it, you need a frame with glass and passepartout.
Thanks for your interest, I appreciate it!
By the way, I used once such fixative for pastel, but if the colours before were bright after fixative they all became darker and the whole work lost its brightness. Maybe I applied it wrongly, have you noticed such effect?
Hi @stef1!
Sometimes we must consider the use of fixatives as part of the drawing process.
In the first place, it is necessary to avoid applying the aerosol profusely at one time, it is preferable to apply several light coats of fixative leaving a drying time between each application in order to avoid the chalk particles becoming saturated with moisture.
If certain colour or intensity changes occur in the drawing, chalk must be reapplied to correct them and, if necessary, reapply fixative. Or perhaps we should leave these corrections without a fixative.
Generally, the artwork is framed immediately upon completion to prevent damage. It can also be stored carefully and covered with transparent paper.
Regards.
I think when we tried we did not expect so much of spray, we tried it only on one. The idea of putting more pastel layers on the previous sounds good and maybe I will do when I am back to Scotland and see, but also will try to spray from more distance that might help too. Thank you,